Sentence examples for strict i from inspiring English sources

"Is it too strict?" I ask.

"My dad was a monster," he says, "but if he wasn't that strict I wouldn't be built like I'm built.

And yet it doesn't feel that strict – I sat in on a meeting of health visitors undergoing training from a guy who said their BCG vaccination rates weren't high enough, and they erupted.

My settings are very strict, I have lists to communicate only with who I choose to at any given time on my timeline, but the moment I stray and make a comment elsewhere, this become an irrelevance and Facebook can share it (pretty much) however they please.

She said that since the attacks, "I've become a lot more strict; I'm demanding a lot more communication.

"I wouldn't define it as rigid, as strict, I think it's balanced, which is the key one for me," she said in response to a question about how strict the new rules are.

The anti-doping controls have got stricter, I believe, over the last few years.

"If the rules get any stricter, I'm going to have to leave this city," he says, frowning.

Example 23a represents deontic modality in its strictest, i.e. in the performative sense; a direct command is issued from a speaker to an addressee.

However, as recommended by Hox, van de Schoot, and Matthijsse (2012), we set the cutoff value stricter (i.e., bconvergence =.01) than the default value of.05.

I was given strict instructions I was never, ever, ever unless I was on fire to use that phone.