Sentence examples for used contractions from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Mann has a predilection for brooding, no-nonsense machismo; in movies like "Heat" and "Thief," his 1981 directorial debut, his characters rarely used contractions.

In addition Tool 2 used contractions (doesn't) and the words 'can have' in the original have been reprocessed to 'camwood'camwood

Furthermore, in [11], Xu et al. used contractions to regularize the semi-implicit midpoint rule (1.3) and presented the following viscosity implicit midpoint rule for nonexpansive mappings: x_{n+1}=alpha_{n}Q(x_{n})+ 1- alpha_{n})T biggl(frac{x_{n}+x_{n+1}}{2} biggr),quad nge0, (1.4) where (alpha_{n}in 0,1)) and Q is a contraction.

A mapping is called nonexpansive if the following inequality holds: ∥ S x − S y ∥ ≤ ∥ x − y ∥. for all x, y ∈ C. In 1967, Halpern [1] used contractions to approximate a nonexpansive mapping and considered the following explicit iterative process: x 0 ∈ C, x n + 1 = α n u + ( 1 − α n ) S x n, ∀ n ≥ 0, where u is a given point and S : C → C is nonexpansive.

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His appointment as "minister for Europe" (the widely used contraction of his full title) made him one of the key players in Blair's strategy of transforming Britain's relations with the rest of Europe.

Mr. Mann and Mr. Mamet often write characters who speak without using contractions, who take great pains to be unmistakably clear.

This time, he populates a preindustrial Pennsylvania village with an impressive cast of elders and youngsters, who almost never use contractions and who live in fear of some scary creatures in the surrounding woods.

The tone also led to the choice not to use contractions, and to capitalize "I" as well as place names, which seemed overly distracting to English readers when lowercase.

They are Seth (Alexander Ludwig and Sara AnnaSophia Robbbb) and, like many others of their kind, their English is impeccable, though they are unable to use contractions or slang, or to refer to people by first names alone.

And all the letters contained a linguistic habit that, Leonard testified, he had found nowhere else: a tendency to use contractions in negative statements ("I can't") but not in positive ones ("I am").

These and other means were attempted, but meanwhile ordinary folks, dang them, kept right on talking and writing however they wanted, inventing words, using contractions and so on.

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