Sentence examples for the proof reader from inspiring English sources

I presume the proof reader missed something.

Or is it simply evidence that the proof reader glazed over periodically as well?

The first sentence begins, "The proof-reader said, Yes," and it goes on for five pages.

He puts up at the Splendide (or, as the proof-reader leaves it on one occasion the Savoy), and so courted is he that he must bolt to the country sometimes for breathing space.

The book is by no means a work of austere scholarship; indeed the first casualty of the recession at Carnegie was clearly the proof-reader, since there is barely a page without some egregious howler, but this only adds to its charm.

First, he sent an editorial through that was supposed to be on Lincoln's Birthday and the frightened proof reader discovered it was on Washington's Birthday so he substituted the word Lincoln where Washington appeared.

And even the most careful proof reader can miss the absence of a negative sign in text he or she has written and read many times, so inadvertent mistakes in published papers are an unfortunate feature of the scientific literature.

At the time I was working as proof reader in a law office.

You may want to hire a professional proof reader to give the book a good once over for common errors or mistakes.

For the proof, the reader is referred to [[30], Theorem 3.9].

({mathbf{B}}) and ({mathbf{C}}) are skew symmetric matrixes, and the following property is proved, for the proof the reader can refer to "Appendix 2".