e.g.1. It is commonplace that a society reveals its reverence or contempt for history by the respect or disregard that it displays for older people.

e.g.2. “When I leave the house, I watch out,” she said, “I won’t walk past a car that is double-parked, and I won’t walk on the side of the street where it happened.”

e.g.3. It will strengthen you to know that your distinguished career is so widely respected and appreciated.

e.g.4. …, science is a democratic method. That has been its strength: that and its confidence that nothing can be more important than what is true.

e.g.1 Where people once tried to influence natural events with magic and supernatural forces, they now had science to guide them.

e.g.2 It’s the same with the Negro in America. That shoe—the white man’s system---has pinched and rubbed and squeezed his soul until it has destroyed him.

e.g.3 All in all he replaced the proud structure of the nineteenth century science, which had been so battered by the sensational discoveries at the turn of the century, by a new one whose foundations and framework were solid enough to withstand the fiercest storms which might come in the future.

e.g.1 The mounting of the invasion armada, was certainly a fine technological achievement; as was the production of the huge air fleets, with crews to them.

e.g.2 Few countries supported such aggressive acts and therefore the military burden had fallen on the aggressors alone. So would the agony of their new armed intervention in the affairs of other countries.

e.g.3 Most animals we commonly observe do in fact age as we do if given the chance to live long enough.

e.g.4 And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind .

e.g.5 You can almost put it down as a general rule that presidents often invite ”honest criticism” from their aides, but seldom get it , and usually don’t follow it when they do.

 

Don’t be inflexibly devoted to a system just because it worked everywhere.

We are not afraid of the future because of a bomb. We are afraid of bombs because we have no faith in he future.

e.g.2 No person writes a scientific paper merely to communicate technical information, nor does anyone read such a paper merely to be better informed.

e.g.3 We did not build institutes of technology to educate our boys for export.

e.g.4 Scientific discoveries and inventions do not always influence the language in proportion to their importance.

e.g.1 Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.

e.g.2 He is not a majestic personal figure like Roosevelt, and he doesn’t inspire fear like Johnson.

e.g.1 Thus the American, on his linguistic side, likes to make his language as he goes along, and all the hard work of the school teacher cannot hold the business back.

e.g.1 The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.

Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.

e.g.1 But even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives, or how or why it dies.

e.g.2 I cannot state too strongly my appreciation of the part you played in the negotiation in order to bring about the desired result.

e.g.3 One can scarcely pay too high a price for liberty.

e.g.4 Hardly a year now passes without Shanghai losing its traditional dominance in another field or product.

e.g.5 Not a single day passed without some rain.

e.g.1 He is not fond of playing chess any more than you are..

e.g.2 One can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than six.

e.g.3 Events which the older generation remembers vividly are nothing more than past history.

e.g.4 Today, when it is not only driving ahead at a bewildering speed but tunneling back into wider and wider areas of the past , even the most dogged adventurer cannot hope to explore more than a small fraction of the vast continent.

e.g.5 It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they ate hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day.

e.g.1 Sunlight is no less necessary than fresh air to a healthy condition of a body.

e.g.2 It must be recognized that printing does as much harm as good, since it gives bad books as well as good books and propagates no less falsehood and errors than knowledge and truth.

e.g.3 It is nothing less than robbery to ask such a high price.

e.g.4 The contemporary phenomenon of motor-car worship is to be explained not the least by the sense of independence and freedom that ownership entails.

e.g1 Have you ever drawn up an honest balance sheet on yourself—really put down what you’re good at on one side, and what you’re not so good at on the other?

e.g.2 (This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it .) It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things.

e.g.3 The traditional ways of taking care of these needs in the home, such as in nursing the sick, became socially unacceptable (and, in most serious cases, probably less successful)

e.g.1 A world in which the hope of genuine mental health will be open to everyone, a world in which no individual feels that he need be hopelessly broken-hearted, a failure, a menace to others or a traitor to himself.

e.g.2 To do this aircraft will fly at 2000 to 4000 m.p.h.

e.g.3 He describes their programmes and tactics, and , for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.

e.g.1 Having reviewed various technical possibilities, I would now like to comment on the dangers that might be represented by their fulfillment and to compare these with the consequences of efforts to prevent this development.

e.g.2  He listened to the striking of Big Ben , marking every quarter of an hour, and reckoned out  how long it left till the city woke again.

e.g.1 We are conscious when we meet the people involved in a story that they have something within them which will probably take them towards some inevitable fate or end.

e.g.2 If we look at the sky on a perfectly fine summer’s day we shall find that the blue colour is the most pure and intense overhead, and when looking high up in a direction opposite to the sun.

e.g.3 In addition it is the language of commerce and the second language of many countries which formerly had French or German in that position.

It is the ideal condition of the ‘equal start’ which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain.

Only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain the ideal condition of the “equal start”.

The language of commerce and the second language of many countries formerly had French or German in that position.

e.g.1 Skyscrapers are lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power.

 e.g.2 He said before the mugging, he went where he wanted, when he wanted, without fear.

 e.g.3 And even those legislative lions who roar against the president on Capitol Hill tend to usually lower their voices and follow their prepared speeches when they walk through the White House door.

 e.g.4 How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted.

e.g.1 Many people believe , however, that our progress depends on two different aspects of science.

e.g.2 Next, we instituted the largest program of educational expansion that the country has ever seen.

e.g.3 It is a document which must be considered as positive support for the Second United Nations Development Decade.

e.g.1 Researchers have established that when people are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively in cognitive areas such as attention and memory. This is true regardless of age.

e.g.2 Later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigor and resistance which, though imperceptible at first, will finally become so steep that we can live no longer, however well we look after ourselves, and however well society, and our doctors, look after us.

e.g.3 It is animals and plants which lived in or near water whose remains are most likely to be preserved, for one of the necessary conditions of preservation is quick burial.

e.g.1 We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these.

e.g.2 (The facts of science are not , as some think, dry and lifeless) They are living things , filling with sweetest poetry the ear that listens to them, and with fadeless harmony of colors the eye that looks upon them.

e.g.3 The defect is that it leaves out of account the chief and most difficult factor in the whole problem –the question, namely , of the advantage, not merely to all individuals but to each individual, of having a legally ordered society to live in.

e.g.4 There is no more difference, but there is just the same kind od difference, between the mental operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person, as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales, and the operations of a chemist in performing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graded weights.

e.g.1 Nor are the influences that shaped these tendencies invisible today, for institution-making is yet going on, and so is language-making.

e.g.2 Not since the car radio has a technology so altered the nature of the driving experience as the cellular telephone.

e.g.3 From the shore-line out to a distance which may be anywhere from a few miles to a few hundred miles runs the gentle slopes of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.

e.g.1 The breakthroughs would create as much danger as they would hope.

e.g.2 Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to the packaged tour, that the traveler abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited.

e.g.3 When the media add interpretation and analysis, as they must to do their job fully, strong dislike of the messengers may become intense.