| While judges may have associated severe sentences with deterrence, the connection was not necessarily valid. |
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| Pledges to join the European Community and replace short prison sentences with fines would leave modern Tories spitting blood. |
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| For example, it apparently tells you not to end sentences with prepositions. |
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| The latter, a boisterous Jersey boy, has a motor mouth and often punctuates his sentences with an infectious bray of loud laughter. |
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| Individuals who use run-on sentences with no subordination, or who use only simple sentences, produce monotonous writing. |
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| Byatt admittedly isn't in this league, but she does have a penchant for sentences with lots of commas. |
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| For one thing, the author has a nasty habit of separating sentences with a comma, when a semi-colon would be far more appropriate. |
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| But I do believe in life sentences with life meaning life, not just ten years inside, with umpteen reductions for good behaviour. |
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| A special typographical challenge that linguists face is the formatting of our beloved example sentences with interlinear glossing. |
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| All these verb forms are, in fact, largely neutral with respect to time and may be used in sentences with differing time implications. |
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| Accuracy of grammaticality judgements was much lower for sentences with unreal words than real words. |
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| A penchant for sentences with multiple negatives is one of the things that make jury instructions notoriously hard to understand. |
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| With these points in mind, consider now some sentences with the word photograph. |
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| There are short, clean-cut, crisp sentences with none of the wordy, long-windedness of one who has spent long years on the Bench. |
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| She combines confessional prose with cultural commentary, narrative with argument, plain declarative sentences with lovely lyrical passages. |
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| Start sentences with subjects and verbs, and let other words branch off to the right. |
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| Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant. |
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| In this translation repository it is possible to find sentences with their equivalent in all other official languages. |
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| But run-on sentences with improper punctuation, extra words, omitted words and misspellings make understanding the material harder than it should be. |
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| It did not help matters that she would follow her sentences with a deep sniff, as if expecting to engage in an obnoxious breathing contest with Parisian intellectuals. |
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| I used to think in long compound sentences with subordinate clauses and even the odd polysyllable. |
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| Translate proper and complete sentences with a subject, a verb and a logical sentence structure. |
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| We saw that most tellingly in the use we made of minimum mandatory sentences with regard to impaired driving. |
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| His murderer was given two life sentences with a tariff of 18 years. |
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| A paragraph that starts many sentences with coordinating conjunctions may also lack smooth transitions. |
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| Combining simple sentences with longer, more complex lines can give a passage rhythm and heighten drama. |
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| I don't think I could say which is the party of the NHS, I really don't Deborah Lee speaks quickly and punctuates her sentences with acronyms. |
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| Not surprisingly, then, the earliest writing was based on the way people talk, and that meant short sentences with a direct logical throughline. |
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| You don't need to worry about sentences with predicates and subjects. |
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| He writes in short sentences with bubbling enthusiasm carrying us along on its current. |
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| Short sentences with no subordinate clauses were used in the episodes to facilitate young listeners, most of whom were not Italian natives. |
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| Ministers have suggested replacing short sentences with community punishments. |
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| Dangerous and violent criminals will no longer serve their sentences with their feet up. |
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| An additional welcome measure is the standardisation of penalties, with prison sentences with a maximum term of no less than five years. |
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| Negotiations on an agreement on the enforcement of sentences with the International Criminal Court are under way. |
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| We tend to flatten our vowels and end sentences with a slightly upward inflection. |
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| Advancing women's equality merits two sentences with a vague reference to the development of an action plan. |
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| A make-up pro, she is also trying to solve a long-running internet mystery with her video about why Russians finish their sentences with closed parentheses online. |
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| Do not pepper sentences with them unnecessarily. |
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| Another conferee, Marina Balioura, described how, while under the influence of psychonetic techniques, she could simultaneously write two different sentences with each of her hands. |
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| The media has on its part also actively run campaigns raise the awareness of the communal benefits for non-custodial sentences with a view of rehabilitating petty offenders. |
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| Thus, in sentences with several subordinate or relative clauses, the infinitives are clustered at the end. |
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| Both of the sentences are acceptable and grammatically correct, but sentences with the copula are more formal. |
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| Those who remain stoutly in favour of the death penalty hope to use what practically amount to full-life sentences to gain revenge on those who argue against sentences with no hope of release. |
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| Instead of adorning one thought about his firm or his product or himself in ten glorious sentences, he will fill ten simple sentences with ten significant thoughts. |
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| Sentences for male offenders ranged from 46 months to life, while sentences for female offenders ranged from suspended sentences with probation to five years. |
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| Pursuant to the new criminal policy guidelines, the State embarked on a major initiative to humanize custodial sentences with a view to preserving the dignity of convicted persons. |
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| Germans like to make a point clear, experts say, though this seems often to call for protracted, convoluted sentences with multiple subordinate clauses that are inimical to microblogging. |
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| Since submission of the Report, the Court has reached a stage of advanced negotiations on agreements of enforcement of sentences with three States Parties. |
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| She was well aware of how to exploit a sitter's bemusement when confronted by this short-of-stature figure speaking in clipped sentences with a posh accent. |
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| Gapped sentences with multiple choice task. |
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| Gapped texts: complete sentences with a fixed answer. |
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| Brady tossed off printable, forgettable sentences with professional ease. |
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| Such fetishes as insisting on It's I, not ending sentences with prepositions, and avoiding split infinitives are all dismissed as the nonsense they are. |
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| Sentences with the verb first can be interpreted, however, as indicating a special purpose, such as an imperative, emphasis, contrast, and so on. |
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| Sentences with numerical NP objects and for adverbials are shown not to be automatically telic. |
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