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  • noun Plural form of subclause.

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Examples

  • In some ways their strategy is clever: if you have in hand a 350- or 450-page book written in Victorian English long sentences with lots of subclauses, and a modern-sounding Introduction, which will you spend your time on?

    Comfort's Tract Meet - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • In some ways their strategy is clever: if you have in hand a 350- or 450-page book written in Victorian English long sentences with lots of subclauses, and a modern-sounding Introduction, which will you spend your time on?

    Comfort's Tract Meet - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Us print hacks have a tendency in broadcast to speak too quickly, and to try to insert subclauses in our argument that work in print but not in broadcast.

    Revisiting the BNP conundrum 2009

  • Us print hacks have a tendency in broadcast to speak too quickly, and to try to insert subclauses in our argument that work in print but not in broadcast.

    Revisiting the BNP conundrum 2009

  • Us print hacks have a tendency in broadcast to speak too quickly, and to try to insert subclauses in our argument that work in print but not in broadcast.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • There cannot be a system where large firms are given non-repayable grants from the public purse whilst the Assembly Government penalises smaller firms unfairly or, worse still, starts to act as a public sector venture capitalist by putting together unworkable equity deals with more subclauses than a deal with the devil.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

  • Are two year olds supposed to construct perfect sentences with two conditional subclauses?

    working mom 2008

  • Are two year olds supposed to construct perfect sentences with two conditional subclauses?

    Yatima » 2008 » September 2008

  • Cleaning up subclauses in the tax code always takes someone's favorite deduction away, and this Congress isn't interested.

    Money: Give Me A (Tax) Break! 2007

  • The identification of falsity with non-provability is further exploited in most Prolog implementations by incorporating an operator, not, that allows programmers to explicitly express the negation of literals (or even subclauses) within a program.

    Automated Reasoning Portoraro, Frederic 2005

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