Sentence examples for Is construed from inspiring English sources

A meaning-oriented criterion is set up as follows: (i) Explicit modality is construed as Figure/Proposition; (ii) Quasi-explicit modality is construed as projecting Circumstance; (iii) Implicit modality is construed as modal Adjunct, part of Process/Predicator or mood element.

It is also hard because whatever you do is construed in the worst possible light.

He's incredulous that poking someone is construed as a come-on.

New Labour's collapse in elections for the European Parliament is construed by some as Mr Blair's Borodino.

Domestic violence is construed as one-sided aggression, when often there is a warped dynamic of intimacy in which both the men and the women are players.

Chaos ensues and when the bodies are untangled, Howard's feckless rebellion is construed by everyone else as backbone, sending his wife, in particular, into sensual ecstasy.

Explicit modality is construed as Figure.

If syntax is construed in this way, it presupposes semantics.

Collection is construed as a method for classification.

Explicit modality is construed as projecting figures in Chinese.

In Chinese, implicit modality is construed as a modal adjunct.