Sentence examples for subtle clauses from inspiring English sources
The agreement followed the Four Articles of Prague but weakened them with subtle clauses (e.g., the council granted the Czechs the Communion in both kinds but under vaguely defined conditions).
Traditionally, the semicolon has three uses: it can replace a comma in a series that includes interior commas, such as this one; it can replace a comma and a conjunction in a compound sentence, creating a subtle relationship between clauses; and it can be used artfully to suggest hesitations and inflections, a dangerous practice best explored in a graduate seminar on Henry James.
Remember, most of the fund's investors are not trained to spot subtle legalese escape clauses.
Lewis' classic 1978 paper proposed an analysis of the expression "true in such-and-such fiction" in terms of possible worlds: what holds in a certain fictional work is what holds at a set of possible worlds, properly selected via a series of (quite subtle and complex) clauses.
In a related, but more subtle example, a WHERE clause or conditional statement might compare a column's value with a constant.
The rival formulations turn up one after another, in sub-clauses that offer everything from subtle qualification to flat contradiction.
Larson looks at contrasts between different kinds of clause with different meanings and see evidence of abstract operations affecting subtle details of tree structure, and parallelism between derivational operations formerly thought distinct.
