Sentence examples for a complement that from inspiring English sources

Verbs like 'begin' and 'enjoy' appear to semantically select a complement that expresses an activity or an event (Jackendoff, R. (1997).

When these verbs occur with a complement that does not directly denote either an activity or an event (e.g. '…began the book' or '…enjoyed the book'), the complement must be type-shifted from an object to an activity to conform to the verb's semantic restrictions.

Later that month, still down by double digits, Glenn told The Durango Herald he "took it as a complement" that the Republican National Committee and other national Republican groups hadn't extended him financial support.

At a personal level, notice the times you may refuse to 'accept' or 'receive'; how often are you given a complement that you reject it as 'ill-placed' or that you might divert attention away from it?

Don't try to tell the person who paid you a complement that they're wrong.

Namibia brought in a 100m refurbished Chinese patrol vessel this year, adding to a naval complement that includes harbour and inshore patrol boats.

One doesn't need meat to complement a meal, especially since the whole article dealt with vegetarian food; but even more surprising is to suggest a meal complement that is the inhumanely treated animal--a veal calf!

The four genomes share a gene complement that encodes 77 proteins, 30 tRNAs, and 4 rRNAs.

According to the data, however, langlung "think" may select an island ru' complement that blocks extractions, and it may also select a normal mha' complement that does not block extractions.

RCMB algorithm [11] is the classic twos complement that uses a radix-4 MBE scheme.

Particles that are smaller than an indentation complement that indentation, leading to an increase in the adhesion force.