Sentence examples for without antecedent from inspiring English sources
Several creolists have argued that creoles, or at least those of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, started without antecedent pidgins.
Both that voice and the stories Zink tells are so startling, so seemingly without antecedent, that she would seem like an outsider artist, if she did not betray so much casual erudition.
Of 1,829 patients randomized to the intervention of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), 700 (38%) experienced the composite event D/MI which included 230 (13%) nonfatal MI and 470 (26%) death without antecedent nonfatal MI, whereas 79 of 230 (34%) experienced death after nonfatal MI.
The two cases were reported in eyes without antecedent eye surgery or miotics [ 4, 5].
Asystole can appear very abruptly, at times without antecedent bradycardia [ 23].
Control rats without antecedent exposure to HgCl2 received a similar intra-articular injection of synviocyte-packaged Chlamydia.
She points out that her idea is not without antecedents.
"If information on people found without antecedents is uploaded too, matchmaking algorithms could be put to good effect," she writes.
No revolution is without antecedents: Bakewell gives her hero a firm philosophical pedigree in the Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics, and in their collective cultivation of prosoche, or "mindfulness", through ataraxia, or "equilibrium" – which means having control over your emotions.
But for the most part, it is a reasonless detachment of spectacle from life; in that sense, it is probably closer to Bollywood than is generally admitted, but the sheer in-your-face two-dimensional portrayal of people without character, without antecedents, without origins is offensive.
But the director, Robert Harmon, working from a screenplay by Brendan William Hood, is well aware that the unseen is much scarier than the seen (just as pronouns like the one in the title are much scarier without antecedents), and he uses dark shadows and shifting camera angles to suggest their malevolent presence.
