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They fit my characters bodies in a non-restrictive way.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 2010
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And, possibly against the wishes of his co-workers at the fastidious magazine, he encouraged her to be artfully untidy: "Don't, if you can help it, remember the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive clauses," he wrote in 1953, regarding revisions to "The Ponder Heart."
Staving Off Oblivion Abigail Deutsch 2011
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And now for the supprisingly non-restrictive fine print: Limit one entree from the lunch menu, and one non-alcoholic beverage per person (and they assured me that iftables wanted to sample one or two of their appetizers, they would be allowed to do that as well).
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In mitigation, I asked for numerous flagrant misuses of restrictive which and non-restrictive that to be taken into account.
April 2008 2008
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His comic edge was honed on a childhood full of Calvin and Hobbes and the non-restrictive curriculum at Alfred University allowed him to dabble in ceramics, electronic media, animation, and metal sculpture
Archive 2009-12-01 Liviu 2009
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A non-restrictive clause for all you grammar devotees who insist on having your way
Archive 2009-08-01 Lauri 2009
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Did Obama want to use a restrictive relative clause and thereby say that a typical white person is someone who has a knee-jerk reaction to another race, or did he want to use a non-restrictive relative clause, thereby describing his grandmother as a typical white person, but is someone who has (or had) a knee-jerk reaction to another race?
Poll: Majority Doesn't Believe Obama Shares Wright's Views 2009
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His comic edge was honed on a childhood full of Calvin and Hobbes and the non-restrictive curriculum at Alfred University allowed him to dabble in ceramics, electronic media, animation, and metal sculpture
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A non-restrictive clause for all you grammar devotees who insist on having your way
Who? That Which! Lauri 2009
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The free trader arguments are reversed and applied common-sensically if the rich countries believe in free trade so much, why not let the developing countries decide if they want to restrict foreign investment or not rather than impose non-restrictive regulations through trade agreements?
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