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- noun Plural form of
phrase . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
phrase .
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Examples
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Form _infinitive phrases_ from the following verbs, and use these phrases as _adjectives, adverbs_, and _nouns_, in sentences of your own building.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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Form _infinitive phrases_ from the following verbs, and use these phrases as _adjectives, adverbs_, and _nouns_, in sentences of your own building.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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Form _infinitive phrases_ from the following verbs, and use these phrases as _adjectives, adverbs_, and _nouns_, in sentences of your own building.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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Hence they combine whole phrases more than words -- _phrases banales_.
Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Arnold Bennett 1899
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Hence they combine whole phrases more than words -- _phrases banales_.
Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824
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_fugitive phrases_, which are the cant of ordinary discourse, just as tragedy phrases, _dead idioms, _ and exaggerations of dignity, are of the artificial style, and yeas, verilys, and exaggerations of simplicity, are of the natural. -- p. xvi.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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And for this and other causes we have in many places reserved the Hebrew phrases, notwithstanding that they may seem somewhat hard in their ears that are not well practised and also _delight in the sweet sounding phrases_ of the holy Scriptures. "[
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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I use the term phrases because these parties themselves do not believe seriously in the possibility of carrying out their intentions, and because in the second place they themselves are the accomplices mainly responsible for the present development.
Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925
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Plus you can use Latin phrases, which is far more indicative of both intelligence and fairness than using Spanish ones, apparently.
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And before Raevmo goes off on another tangent about * what* the challenge of those findings is, let me just go ahead and re-type the key-word phrases from the cited copy …
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