He decided to leave the question of infinite and non-finite beings alone for the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: September 2004 Archives] Reference

In the case of Computers, there are all sorts of tricks we use to establish a non-finite Virtual Memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [More atheist proselytising « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

Lots of people don't realize that subjects of non-finite verbs are in the objective case, just like in Latin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suing the architect.] Reference

Incidentally, there seems to be some uncertainty as to what this area of grammar (where verbs are followed by other, non-finite, verbs) is called.    From Wordnik.com.  [G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

When however the case is assigned by 'of', the result reads like an absolute subject of a non-finite verb: 'both being...', so 'both of whom being...'.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SOME OF WHOM HAVING.] Reference

In the case of brains, our neurons may grow and form new connections at any time, changing the NUMBER of state REGISTERs in a dynamic and non-finite way.    From Wordnik.com.  [More atheist proselytising « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

Unlike the way most consumer service products are purchased, insurance costs are based upon a non-finite uncertain condition to happen some time in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Katrina Role of Property Insurers Threaten Consumers Nationwide] Reference

A non-finite being might experience a small measure of certainty on the question, but such a being would probably not be able to convey an answer to entities having our level of occurrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: September 2004 Archives] Reference

And so we are able to speculate about the case of a non-finite presence-in-absence by starting with but moving beyond the limits of the presence and absence we are familiar with in the realm of limited things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]] Reference

The fact of the matter is that want is a transitive verb, and hence requires an object, whether that object is a noun phrase, or a non-finite clause (formed with an infinitive), as in We want to learn English.    From Wordnik.com.  [G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

Conversation: "an unfigurable Universe (a term henceforth deceptive); a Universe escaping every optical exigency and also escaping consideration of the whole — essentially non-finite, disunified, discontinuous" (350).    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics] Reference

My take on it is that the religious conception is not just about downloading the Platonic forms of "us" out of our meat bodies and uploading them into another substantial -- albeit "spiritual" -- form in another (higher, purer, but nevertheless existential, which is to say experiential) "reality", one which just so happens to be temporally non-finite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

What are the points to differentiate between finite and non-finite verbs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

In many languages there are also one or more forms that remain unchanged with all or most grammatical categories: the non-finite forms, such as the infinitive or the gerund.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Things Press Release] Reference

Latin non-finite forms, the infinitive, the gerund (with uninflected present participial use) and the past participle (originally passive, but in Spanish also active) alone survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

To Pay through ones nose means in spite of knowing that what you are paying is high you still pay for it (no go) what are the points to differentiate between finite and non-finite verbs? en Español.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

You have a non-finite English form ( "supplying") in a past continuous form, in accordance with the English construction but contrary to the Algerian Arabic one, which would require a finite form ( "they supply").    From Wordnik.com.  [Jabal al-Lughat] Reference

Roughly, what we think is that the syntax of English leaves things open for you to design your paragraphs in such a way that preposed non-finite adjunct clauses will, in context, be easily and naturally linked up with suitable understood subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Language Log] Reference

Carnap responded by stating that arithmetic demands an infinite sequence of ever richer languages and by declaring analytic statements to be provable by non-finite reasoning (1934/37.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vienna Circle] Reference

Light of the non-finite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

(firstly infinitive are a kind of non-finite which doesnt change with no. and subject of noun) a.) i felt the ground with my hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

“Well, then what’s a non-finite being?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: September 2004 Archives] Reference