Examples of irregular

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The trustworthiness of the workers, however, is even more significant in relation to the actual work, irregular employment patterns and the high quality demands.
In cases where a child offered ' 'eated' ', past irregular was scored as a misformation.
The irregular plural in the preceding example is ' 'chevaux' '.
The 19 test trials followed in a fixed order, which intermixed the regular and irregular verbs.
We argued that this could explain the finding that the impaired subjects had lower production rates for irregular than for regular past-marked forms.
In the absence of intact suffixation rules, they may be forced to memorize regular as well as irregular past tense forms.
The other 18 patients were referred for clarification of a slow or irregular heart rate.
Such data concerning postnatal outcome were available for 165 (85%) of the 194 fetuses with irregular heart rhythms.
An irregular heart rate was noted as an incidental finding in the latter group.
The occurrence of an irregular heart rhythm in the fetus, therefore, is not always benign.
A frequent reason for tertiary referral for detailed fetal echocardiography is the detection of an irregular heart rate.
Salaries were paid in a partial and irregular way, so that many workers, at every level, were often owed substantial sums by their masters.
As people aged, however, coital activity declined generally and became increasingly irregular over the year.
The piers focus and accommodate the varied roof beam and wind loads generated by the building's irregular plan form and exposure.
Three regular verbs (wash, mend, paint) and three irregular verbs (eat, hit, cut) were used in a total of 48 sentences.
The 8 items in this task all involved regular and irregular past tense verbs.
The irregular arrangement of the second block type allowed for hybrid experiences around the former dock.
The other block had an irregular square plan and was three stories high.
What we find instead is that the ^-genitive has generalized to most nouns but that many irregular genitives are maintained.
Children who have been brought up in an age of television are not as ready to sit in rows conjugating irregular verbs as their predecessors.
Above we have examples of junctions where the usual order is altered, which may be called irregular junctions.
Their flowering and fruiting habits are closely dependent on the rains and are consequently somewhat irregular.
Moreover, since the system is irregular, all its cofinite subsystems are irregular and share the same finiteness parameter.
Note the sharp but irregular contacts between the darker wehrlites and the lighter layered olivine oxide gabbros.
The unconformity is irregular, but dolomitization clearly extends both above and below it.
Of course, the statistical analyses with multiple-line crosses are more complex, particularly when different crosses have different and irregular crossing patterns.
In addition, phylogenetic relationships among irregular taxa as well as the relationship with regular echinoids remain imprecise.
The phylogenetic signal yielded by these characters stresses the importance of the environmental context of the origin and diversification of irregular echinoids.
The problem with an irregular bead fill is that the permeability and the thermal conductivity are both affected by the packing density.
Further, after several irregular oscillations, the bubble is extended indefinitely.
We shall, however, discuss in the next section the properties of the new branches (irregular waves) when they are close to the critical wave.
Accordingly, we see that the cumulative reflexion associated with the irregular topography is weak.
No irregular waves of class 1 were found.
Similarly, we see irregular chromosome condensation in spermatocytes.
The upper half is more heterogeneous and consists of an irregular alternation of clays, silts and finer sands.
The very irregular shape of the outer limits of replacing aggregate indicates that it resulted from a post-metamorphic process.
In weakly deformed gneiss, the mafic minerals (biotite, augite and hornblende) occur as irregular clusters, locally separated from plagioclase by coronas of garnet.
Relations among regular and irregular morphologically related words in the lexicon as revealed by repetition priming.
Of these, 62-5% showed secretory or irregular secretory changes and the remainder showed inactive or atrophic endometria.
On the other hand, there was no single case in which an irregular ending was overapplied to a verb that required a regular one.
They point out that irregular inflections rely on memory, and hence can be applied only when memory can be accessed.
The children's on-line data revealed contrasts between regular and irregular forms.
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