1. I passed on my tentative conclusions to the police.

2. We made a tentative arrangement to meet again next Friday.

3. He reached some tentative conclusions about the possible cause of the accident.

4. Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.

5. I'm taking the first tentative steps towards fitness.

6. Roy ventured a tentative smile.

7. Her English is correct but tentative.

8. He ventured a tentative smile.

9. They have taken their first tentative steps towards democracy.

10. My first attempts at complaining were rather tentative.

11. The country is taking its first tentative steps towards democracy.

12. We've made a tentative plan for the vacation but haven't really decided yet.

13. The government is taking tentative steps towards tackling the country's economic problems.

14. I have made tentative plans to take a trip to Seattle in July.

15. Labour has been oddly tentative about this.

16. She gave a tentative tug at her hand.

17. Evan's writing is very tentative.

18. My interviews tempt me to a very tentative hypothesis.

19. Shortage of sources compels tentative conclusions.

20. Slightly tentative, it warmed her eyes and elicited response.

21. Classify as a phonic alternative, but this is tentative.

22. Workers have reached a tentative agreement with management.

23. When Evan is tentative about a spelling, I encourage him to try.

24. Duval hit a tentative putt that did well to get as far as two inches short.

25. She looked with tentative excitement at Pat who, it seemed, did not know what she had said.

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26. It has come to some tentative conclusions about the relationship between the quality of argument and computer software.

27. Only tentative conclusions can be reached and they are open to challenge and criticism.

28. Without the results of the blood test, the doctor could only make a tentative diagnosis.

29. In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.

30. For these and other reasons, forecasts of future trends in such complex human behaviours as drug-taking are necessarily conditional and tentative.

1. I passed on my tentative conclusions to the police.

2. We made a tentative arrangement to meet again next Friday.

3. Without the results of the blood test, the doctor could only make a tentative diagnosis.

4. He reached some tentative conclusions about the possible cause of the accident.

5. Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.

6. We've made a tentative plan for the vacation but haven't really decided yet.

31. There are many things to think about before even the first tentative daffodil bulb is sunk into the ground.

32. What follows is offered as a tentative approach, but one that has already proved useful to teachers. 1 Fictional narrative.

33. There was no need for tentative steps of discovery but nevertheless it was as if this were the very first time.

34. Some of the eurypterids may even have made tentative excursions on to the land.

35. Our second tentative conclusion is that social services may have reduced people's subjective sense of inequality.

36. Handprints in a vast cave carry a tentative quality, a small gesture of presence.

37. There was nothing tentative about the touch of his lips, either.

38. The tentative concepts of the five finalists in a master plan design competition will go on view for the first time.

39. It was a tentative document that merely asked for provincial legislation enabling municipalities to buy, sell, and distribute electric power.

40. In the light of these remarks, the following very tentative conclusions may perhaps be advanced.

41. Now, even I was tentative about this undertaking, and I am well trained in these matters.

42. She couldn't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage.

43. Jim gave the liturgy planning team his tentative approval and waited to see how the community and the archdiocese would react.

44. Hauling it by its ugly leather straps she took a tentative step on the little stony path.

45. Hudson, the beautiful; handsome Hudson with the long list of girl-friends was tentative, gentle and unhurried.

46. The owners and the union have reached a tentative agreement to extend their deal and push the uncapped year back.

47. I therefore included it as a separate mode although my analysis remained highly tentative.

48. Few results are available yet on this theme, though some tentative conclusions may be drawn.

49. I would therefore propose that September 1993 be set as a tentative deadline for the confirmation of events, dates and locations.

50. Seven others were slightly tentative about it, with four of those saying they needed assurances they would face no new regulations.

51. Like Marxism, the theories of development have become more pluralistic and tentative.

52. By late February the study had been completed and a tentative plan worked out.

53. Women in particular should be on guard against apologizing for themselves indirectly by this sort of tentative behaviour.

54. A brilliant scientist, Hesswas unassuming about his talents and perhaps tentative about the new ideas he was presenting.

55. She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders.

56. Having settled her differences( ), she gave my hand a tentative lick.

57. But the steps taken so far have been tentative ones, forced by bitter economic realities.

58. Both moves were seen as tentative steps towards opening up the political system.

59. The departures screen Grand Central Station was no help, reading cancelled across the board because schedules were too tentative to post.

60. The study uses a methodology which combines elements of traditional legal scholarship with a tentative import of economic analysis.

61. The input is then parsed into a tentative surface structure on which the transformations can be performed to determine the deep structure.

62. The year ended with the government taking tentative steps to tackle the country's enormous economic problems.

63. The tentative quality of the inauguration conceals a determined and set political course.

64. That tentative conclusion probably is as far as one can go on the basis of empirical evidence.

65. Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative.

66. Most partnerships involve tentative negotiations until they find ways of communicating that suit each of their needs.

67. Shortly after the First World War tentative steps towards the implementation of a monopoly policy were being considered.

68. Conclusions from a single epidemiologic study are very tentative regardless of the quality of the study.

69. When the Young Girl first dances with her Cousin her arabesques are tentative but outward-going.

70. He gave me a confused smile: a tentative grin with eyes averted.

71. Four years ago, he was a bit tentative in his come-on.

72. Tentative plans include hay rides, a dedication ceremony and hiking tours.

73. A coalition of the young and old might, from even the most tentative beginnings, grow into a formidable force.

74. Tentative proposals for research towards highly interactive systems which adapt themselves to individual users and uses were put forward in 1984.

75. It is important to make this as plain as possible because it is so tentative.

76. Instead of my ebullient friend, I see a woman with hunched posture, a tentative walk.

77. All you really need from them is a tentative agreement to participate in the project.

78. Then he opened his eyes, spoke a few words and eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room.

79. Don't be tentative or give repeated tugs which achieve nothing.

80. With a 7-iron, Peter made a tentative, lunging swing and knocked his ball into a bunker again.

81. Yet he must make a tentative judgment on inadequate evidence, for such a matter is of fundamental importance.

82. The tentative discussions in Washington towards a peace settlement are now irrelevant.

83. The group announced tentative plans to obtain a Stock Exchange listing and float some of its shares.

84. There is scope for more work on this, but already there are tentative pointers to the picture being similar.

85. The results of that study are still being analysed but a number of interesting though tentative conclusions are emerging.

86. Around the country, the first tentative steps have been taken toward this new alliance.

87. The nature of social chit-chat, then, and indeed of the bulk of our talk, must be tentative and indirect.

88. When the screaming subsided into low, tentative moans, the commander gave orders to torch the remains of the hospital.

89. Jarrow and Rudd have advanced two tentative explanations of these apparent discrepancies: 1.

90. After a while, he heard a tentative knock at the door and looked up.

91. Alternating attempts at forthright assertion of authority and tentative gestures of conciliation exacerbated the situation.

92. The Hampshire powerhouse risked little by taking his first tentative net against the spinners late yesterday afternoon.

93. He put a tentative arm up; instantly one pulled over, in a rolling wave of black slush.

94. For the second time, there was a tentative tap on the door.

95. Time Inc., the publishing unit of Time Warner has shown tentative interest in black magazines.

96. A more tentative evolution towards greater breadth and flexibility would be expected.

97. Discussion: including any inferences resulting from statistical tests together with tentative explanations and unresolved questions. 6.

98. Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.

99. But the generality and power can vary from the local and tentative to the universal and highly probable.

100. Blackwell's radical ideas point to the tentative beginnings of a discourse on active female sexuality.

101. Renshaw has set a tentative date of mid-1993 for her return, when her youngest child will be at playgroup.

102. It seemed so unlike his own withdrawn, tentative inclusion in the life around him.

103. Reluctantly she took the rolled flatcake, but waited until he had begun eating his before taking her first tentative bite.

104. Ideally, the final stage of your analysis is to offer a tentative conclusion regarding the issue.

105. The tentative diagnosis was temporal lobe epilepsy which affected his personality.

106. There were no task forces, no special commissions, no proposed possible preliminary outlines of conceivable tentative recommendations.

107. Clutching himself he crawled back to the cabinet and ran a tentative hand over the woodwork.

108. In a rather tentative manner, they made some suggestions on how they thought it could be improved.

109. To religious conservatives, however(), even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.

110. Over the years, Maud's politics got busier and fiercer, as his became more tentative and abstract.

111. Such theories are still very tentative.

112. His tentative conclusions were damning.

113. I think we can draw up tentative plan now.

114. She rose and took a tentative step backward.

115. I have some tentative suggestions.

116. What is a tentative advertising appropriation?

117. Each step he took was slightly tentative.

118. He still held a tentative relationship with Marjorie Stafford.

119. He suddenly realizes that their tentative romance is over.

120. In consequence there were numerous tentative measures of codification.

121. We made a tentative arrangement to meet on Friday.

122. Such generalizing statements are tentative at best.

123. First meetings always involve this tentative kind of exploration.

124. The labor market is showing tentative signs of improvement.

125. Here is tentative free on board price list.

126. Here is the tentative free on board price list.

127. The tentative aim is for a joint stock sale.

128. Our conduct of the war was tentative.

129. She did not return his tentative smile.

130. In this paper, teaching problems in electrotechnics have been pointed out. advantage and disadvantage are analyzed and tentative ideas have been put forward.

131. This paper intends to make a tentative study on the distinction and non - finiteness in Chinese.

132. This thesis makes a tentative study of Ch'ien Chung-shu's critical assimilation of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding.

133. The union and automaker already worked together on a tentative new deal to save money.

134. The feasibility, necessity and the tentative frame-work for resource-type cities were studied from the macro viewpoint of the city logistics.

135. In 1999, DOD put forward a tentative plan of building global information grid ( GIG ).

136. A few tentative steps and I'm up to my armpits in the cold soupy liquid, my shoes caught on decaying vegetation, arms scratched by dead branches.

137. The paper probes into the problem from the perspective of target language and offers tentative approaches to fuzzy expression in English-Chinese translation.

138. The thesis is just a tentative one for theoretical reflection on Leuven-Zwart s "translation shift" model, which is expected to bring some fresher perspectives to Ch.

139. Specify the anticipated outcome of the project and the tentative delivery schedule.

140. In this article, the author discusses how to choose the tentative design on complicated terrene slope, and introduces the characteristic of construction technology.

141. She made all European progress seem sluggish and tentative by comparison.

142. We have made a tentative plan to take a trip to Seattle in July.

143. On Tuesday, the UAW detailed its tentative four-year labor agreement with GM that would give workers richer profit-sharing checks and return thousands of union jobs lost in recent years.

144. This paper discusses the feasibility of women's pole jump in China and puts forward a tentative idea and an outline of teaching and training for the development of this sport in China.

145. The studies on apomictic rice in our country are still in tentative stage and no apomictic germplasms with practical breeding value have been found.

145. is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

146. From the perspectives of economic decision and economic prediction, the paper makes a tentative study of the applications of higher mathematical theory to economic field with more examples.

147. This article discusses the possibility and the tentatiVe design of electronic circuit and mechanical device.

148. Put forward railroad company to implement the tentative plan of strategy of customer money sale.

149. The toddler took a few tentative steps forward, and fell.

150. More recently, tentative techniques have been explored for changing human behaviour directly.

151. CMC Markets chief market strategist Ashraf Laidi in London said the "lack of follow-through" in the euro's advance underscored the tentative mood among investors.

152. But Frederic Neumann , an economist at HSBC, sees tentative signs that spending is picking up.

153. The thesis is the result of tentative research on the old and new-sprung religion.

154. The pity is that the reforms have come so late and have previously been so tentative.

155. Based on the analysis of some seismic test method, a new tentative idea about "Hybrid Test" is proposed.

156. The tentative design of constant altitude flight solid rocket composed of the sustainer , the booster and its simple control method is presented.

157. This paper makes a tentative inquiry into the choice of standard and method about the improved strains of Tung tree and knows the proportion each property accounts for.

158. The NYSE's tentative $10 billion sale to Germany's Deutsche B?rse will need to pass through a regulatory gauntlet in the next few months, which could ensnarl the deal in red tape.

159. This paper is to make a tentative analysis of the lexical category transfer in English-Chinese translation from the perspective of category in cognitive linguistics.

160. The tentative schedule is at the end of this handout.

161. Really had not thought that this tentative plan unexpectedly really turned the reality.

162. And as the grad student raised the cone to his mouth and took a tentative lick, the electronic monitor hooked up to the macaque's premotor region fired—bripp, bripp, bripp.

163. I think we can draw up a tentative plan now.

164. The present article attempts to make a tentative of sexism in English and Chinese from the sociolinguistic perspective in terms of vocabulary, appellations, common sayings and literature.

165. Resources that the land market rectification results or tentative and phasic and encirclements within them, the indiscriminate use of farmland issue has not been fundamentally resolved.

166. One stone arouses 1000 billow, the tentative idea causes a mighty uproar very quickly in the whole nation, nod eulogist has, shake one's head the person that oppugn has.

167. We have conducted a tentative survey of Chinese English teachers and foreign English teachers among hundreds of fourth-year university English majors in China.

168. Yet in other moments he seems petulant , tentative and even frail.

169. At last, the writer put forward his own tentative plan from an institutionally built angle in order to solve the chronic troubles and make the people interact more smoothly.

170. In view of this, this thesis attempts to make a tentative study of the meaning construction of English puns in the light of Conceptual Integration Theory and try to reclassify English puns.

171. If Beijing follows through on tentative plans to divert the Brahmaputra, it could provoke its rival, India, in the very region where the two countries fought a war in 1962.

172. I think we can make ( form ) a tentative schedule now.

173. At present, three different Lahu alphabetic writing systems are used at home and abroad: the Tentative Writing System, the Phonetic Writing System and the Matisoff Writing System.

174. Just a tentative schedule.

175. Waltzer, who was writing a book about the children of Buchenwald, had already made his own 19)tentative inquiries into the Rosenblat story.

175. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

176. The present paper has dealt with characteristics of the passive source electromagnetic array system as well as its tentative application in a copper ore district.

177. According to a series of tentative surveys and statistics, I define the standard volume of new words and its evolutionary process.

178. Some problems of applying Zipf law are discussed, and some tentative suggestions of resolution to the problems are made.

179. However, it may be a most tentative strategy imagination; I still believe it an accurate blueprint based on my research.

180. The design performance fine observation and control platform obtains key of the detailed reliable tentative data.

181. There have been some tentative signs of green shoots in the UK over recent weeks and some economists have bravely begun to suggest that we may be at the end of the beginning.

182. Tentative as it was, the race meeting in November was a significant move towards opening the country's vast betting market.

183. George Bush attempted a tentative reform last year, but got nowhere.

184. A tentative diagnosis of subacute combined degeneration was made, and he was admitted for further investigation.

185. Please come out with your tentative ideas at the meeting.

186. Others, like the tentative agreement on a salary cut here at The Times, are the result of discussions between employers and their union employees.

187. "Whether they declare that we are in the post-peak phase or not, it will be very important for them to say that the decision is tentative," Sandman said in a telephone interview.

188. By using a combination of sources, however, scholars have developed the following tentative outline of Essene history.

189. The empirical methods in the manual procedures may be elucidated by some tentative control strategies of artificial intelligence (AI), namely, hierarchical planning and backtracking.

190. This article presents a tentative strategy in facilitating students' text understanding for ELT teachers in the teaching of reading:contextulization.

191. Our tentative conclusions are as follows: Intake of protein, fat, energy, saturated fatty acid, unsaturated fatty acid and cholesterol among the colon-cancer patients was higher than control groups.

192. It is only a tentative plan. We may make any changes as we like.

193. The theory of constructivism of western international relation offers new tentative ideation, analyzable frame and solution for the above objectivity.

194. And the mark of cohesion is good for quean tentative analysis of text coherence.

195. Now the panic is over, there are tentative signs that it is planning another push to improve the efficiency of its smokestack economy.

196. This article is a tentative investigation of the relationship between Heidegger and the Buddhistical thought.

197. Tentative budget will want whole project capital 6 billion yuan of RMBs.

198. This thesis is a tentative probe into foreign language teaching, by making use of some up-to-date psycholinguistic evidence and theories, trying to link theory into practice.

199. I consider we can draw up a tentative plan now.

200. Perhaps something tentative or undefined, as in now and again?

201. And the author uses the tentative theoretical framework to explain why neutral semantic prosody dominates the eight business trend words.

202. The limitation in determining threshold value with tentative algorithm according to some prior information on the image being processed can be avoided.

203. CIT.N) has reached a tentative deal with a bondholder group for $3 billion in rescue financing, which the lender hopes will help it avoid bankruptcy, a source close to the situation said on Sunday.

204. I consider we can do ( or form ) a tentative schedule now.

205. Could I make tentative booking for a flight to Bangkok?

206. Below is a tentative schedule of laboratory assignments for the course.

207. "General rule for performance-based seismic design of buildings" (abbreviated to General Rule) is a tentative standard, which can be of significant meaning to our country's seismic design code.

208. The relationship between the false tendon and clinical findings (murmurs, premature ventricular contraction and symptoms)was discussed, and a tentative idea was made about its mechanism.

209. A tentative discussion about the relation between the chromosomal and the organic evolution.

210. By now, there are a few discussions on bear boat hire-purchase charter party, so it is necessary for us to do some tentative discussion on this charter party itself and the relevant problems.

211. Infallible papal pronouncements would be seen as tentative, revisable, like Supreme Court decisions, which have the force of precedents but can be and occasionally are overruled.

212. The last section is a summative assessment and a tentative plan for EMAN for future completion.

213. This paper researches the detection probability of sonobuoy at beat, and gives mathematic model and tentative analysis of it.

214. I think we can make ( or form ) a tentative schedule now.

215. The paper describes the property, function and application of chemical penetrant, as well as the tentative experiment and the test results analysis.

216. A : Let'' s talk about a tentative schedule for your visit now.

217. A tentative analysis of the mechanism of mantle circulation flow, continent drifting and earthquake origin is first clearly made, giving a simple mechanics-based explanation of the nature.

218. According to the tentative cargo plan, we should first load the Dar es Salaam bath towel.

219. The tentative biochemical mechanism of the copper, iron, and magnesium contributing to the different natures was discussed.

220. A low pouring 150SN is used as base stock and is packaged with additives. The properties of the engine oil thus formulated meet the tentative requirements of 10W/30 QE/CC grade engine oil.

221. The premise of such tentative ideas is to have very active political economy climate suppose.

222. Here, a 23 year-old male with such a disorder is presented. An initial impression of irritable bowel syndrome was made at our clinic and the tentative preoperative diagnosis was GI tract malignancy.

223. This paper proposes a tentative notion of "propitiatory state" to describe the current relationship between the state and the labor in China.

224. A terminal printer, as a type of resource-sharing, has been designed and implemented to the tentative local computer loop network in the Northeast Institute of Technology, China.

225. I would like to brief you about our tentative schedule.

226. This article want to make a bit tentative improvement, by analyzing limitations of current evaluation mechanism and index, so as to reconstruct the evaluation index of short-term debt paying ability.

227. Measures and tentative plan for construction and development of natural reserves in Qing - hai Province are proposed.

228. This chapter not only analyzes possible negative results which this actuality may cause,(http:///tentative.html) but provides gist and reference for succedent tentative strategy.

229. It is proposed to make a high power solid laser amplifier tentative design in the paper, which is going to have great energy utilization efficiency and strong output.

230. After the millenary of tentative idea, mankind can roam wantonly in infinite universe , is that to be so secret, so magical!

231. Tentative study on GMPS character: grayish-white to gray powder, odourless.

232. He drank another mouthful of gin, picked up the white knight and made a tentative move.