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15 translations across 11 languages.
14 total sentences available.
This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Source: tatoeba (3652776)
Pekka Ervast, the author of "The Key to the Kalevala", says that the lord and the creator of the world is called Kaleva, and that, as a substantive noun, Kalevala means "the home of the Creator or the Lord", meaning the higher planes of life or the higher zones of unseen world.
Source: tatoeba (3666420)
Some can talk on and on, about nothing substantive, ad infinitum.
Source: tatoeba (4586121)
In university, in Canada, I learned two different kinds of English, technical English and non-technical English, from different courses. I learned that the passive voice, as in "The cat was chased by the dog," is unacceptable in non-technical style, but technical writers use it frequently and legitimately. I learned in technical English that one should use demonstrative pronouns like "this" and "that" with a substantive, not by themselves. There were a lot of nuts and bolts.
Source: tatoeba (11055508)
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Closest matches include ab ovo, abstract noun, adherent noun, adjectival, adverbial.
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