Sentence examples for preceding phrase from inspiring English sources

Many American style books will tell you that the preceding phrase, used by Franklin Roosevelt to describe the bombing of Pearl Harbour, is ungrammatical.

Dipping at some arbitrary point into the river of text, it's alarming to read "... bin laden has nuclear weapons" when the preceding phrase "officials do not believe" has just eluded you.

He is particularly alive to formal aspects of ancient Hebrew poetry and prose such as repetition, internal rhythm, and parallelism (in which a phrase amplifies and almost repeats a preceding phrase, as in "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth," from Psalm 72).

A new phrase is then created as soon as a prefix of the unparsed part of the string differs from all preceding phrases.

The random model is the simplest model; the likelihood of any phrase occurring is independent of the identity of any preceding phrases.

For instance, the linguistic environment determines whether the child learns a language in which noun phrases precede verb phrases or vice versa.

Relative clauses preceding numeral phrases modify the whole numeral phrase, while relative clauses appearing in the position between the unit word and the noun of a numeral phrase modify only the noun.

As a result, the phrase "I'm going on vacation" often precedes the phrase "I'll be checking my messages".

Perhaps "radically" should have preceded the phrase, because the text between hard covers that is in the final phase resembles a nest of paper slips from fortune cookies.

It would save time if the indicator were always "as seen in", or, better still, "hidden inside the phrase preceding or following".

The time combining form was pioneered in party time and was popularized by TV's Bob Smith in the late 1940's with "Hi, kids -- it's Howdy Doody time!" The time turns the preceding word or phrase into a modifier, thereby weakening put up or shut up.