Sentence examples similar to preceding the items from inspiring English sources

While perusing the container listing below, please note that digits that precede the item title and description (e.g. 170, Ferris wheel, foundation plan, undated) are identification numbers given to the drawings by the Ricco Maresca Gallery (New York, New York) for inventory purposes.

When the treatment-specific items preceded the overall items, the mean of those items were correlated.67 with the mean of the overall items, whereas when the treatment-specific items followed the overall items the means were correlated.75 with overall.

And the dash is indispensible for surrounding a list that already contains commas -- weakly beginning a sentence with a conjunction, misspelling indispensable, and incorrectly using a comma before the and preceding the final item in a series -- but undiluted dashiness has become the mark of the slapdash writer who fails to take the trouble to differentiate among the pauses of punctuation.

Also, I'm lazy, and I find it easier to use the serial comma consistently rather than stop every time I come to a series and register whether or not the comma before the "and" preceding the last item is actually preventing ambiguity.

These items preceded the utility items because we wanted respondents to be cognitively prepared to report their true values.

In the application of the preceding sentence, the items of deduction entering into the computation of distributable net income shall be allocated among the items of distributable net income in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary.

A set of test items, consisting of (a) a question with text and a video or image accompanying it and (b) a discrete set of possible participant responses, where each response is composed of a textual label and a numeric value associated with it; 2. A set of instructions, including possible example questions, that would precede the test items; and 3.

The software finds the closest indexed item preceding the query, and then scans through the data, discarding some of the initial items if necessary.

At time 2, this same order was used except that 3 items which assessed changes in headache impact since time 1 were added following the MIDAS items and preceding the SF-8.

Zappos's reputation preceded the Harvard Business item, of course.

These questions preceded the multi-item scales in the questionnaires.