Sentence examples for phrasing modifications from inspiring English sources
Minor phrasing modifications were made on the original questionnaire after the pretest.
Italicised words or phrases indicate modifications made by the ABCD Project team to the original 'Reach' definition and assessment level.
The common phrase "descent with modification" is not a good starting point as it includes replication (descent) and variation (modification), but not selection.
At the time of the first Earth Day, the term "global warming" was barely in circulation — the relatively small group of scientists concerned about the consequences of rising CO2 levels used the phrase "inadvertent climate modification" — and actual warming had yet to be clearly detected.
The first of the four codes was applied to any definition that included both the term "common ancestry" and the phrase "descent with modification".
The phrase was a modification of the expression "God freed Khoramshahr" - which Iranians used after they liberated a big chunk of their territory from Iraqi forces some 30 years ago.
Certainly genome sequencing agrees with the view that organisms share ancestry and have changed over time, the idea encapsulated in the phrase "descent with modification".
Minor modifications were made to the phrasing of several items as a result.
Though the phrase "very unique" is universally despised, other modifications of "unique" are unobjectionable, as when Martin Luther King wrote, "I am in the rather unique position of being the son, the grandson, and the great grandson of preachers".
As a result, the basic component of 'one'-phrases without additional modification enhances the semantic prominence of the minimizer by narrowing the focus site to the 'one'-phrase only.
Almost two thirds of the textbooks that provided a definition of evolution in their summaries mentioned "descent with modification"; this phrase was included in one fourth of the textbooks with glossary definitions of evolution, 16.7% of the textbooks with in-text definitions of evolution, and none of the text box definitions of evolution.
