Sentence examples for study a phrase from inspiring English sources

On Logue's flow chart, nailed to the wall of his study, a phrase from Pope's translation of the Iliad sits next to quote from a New Yorker article about the Gulf War: "a million footprints, /Empty now".

He studied the precise balance of a phrase.

Conservatives tried — but failed — to reinsert a phrase requiring students to study the "strengths and weaknesses" of all scientific theories, including evolution.

This study utilised phrase level analysis as data.

Based on a series of previous studies on the intra-phrase positional dependency of perceptual acceptability, we investigate three factors: (1) speaking rate, (2) position within a phrase, and (3) presence/absence of a carrier sentence using three-mora (three-syllable) phrases at three rates (fast, normal and slow) with or without a carrier sentence (Experiment 1).

Analyses revealed phrase frequency and familiarity to be highly correlated at either r =.60 or.50, depending on the set of phrases being considered. 1 These correlations are very similar to the correlation found in the present study between phrase frequency and meaningfulness (.61).61

The "requisite qualifications" have been repeatedly deliberated over and they are clearly wanting, but study that last phrase, "…to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice".

They carry flashcards in their briefcases to study Arabic phrases like "I am a police officer," "You are under arrest" and "Put the weapon on the ground".

The "Digital Footprints" study coined a new phrase, "active digital footprint," to refer to the personal information that individuals increasingly place online voluntarily.

Cameras trained on the vacuum chamber showed the dogs swelling up like balloons or, as a paper summarizing the study's findings phrased it, "an inflated goat-skin bag".

One article reporting on the study used the phrase "too posh to push".