Sentence examples for imperfect aspect from inspiring English sources

The £32m renovation and extension work that was at its midpoint last August and gave Edgbaston a dispiritingly imperfect aspect for something so familiar – like a friend with a beard but no moustache – has now been finished and the new pavilion welcomes its first international teams.

The difference is one of grammatical aspect: "was having" and "was taking" are known as the imperfect aspect, meaning an event may be continuing.

More than three-quarters of students who read the imperfect aspect phrases said they were confident that Johnson would not be reelected, whereas only about half who read the perfect aspect phrases felt this way.

When an additional 166 students read perfect and imperfect aspect phrasing about Johnson supporting cancer research, for example, there was no difference in how confident the students were in their judgments of electability.

And, most importantly, strength is about the ability to find the beauty in every little perfect and imperfect aspect of your beautiful life.

In her essay, Dalbesio subverts the camera's critical gaze by scrutinising the imperfect aspects of her own body.

Perhaps because I first read him when young and those associations remain, when I go back to Brautigan I half-expect the naive and imperfect aspects to disappoint.

There are many imperfect aspects of riding public transportation, no matter which city you live in.

It's not just the exposure of our partner's imperfections that we need all that patience to accept and live with, it's the exposure of our own imperfect aspects that get illuminated in reaction to them that leave us shame-faced and embarrassed.

Though imperfect, the preventive aspect of accountability is real," she said.

But docking is also notoriously imperfect and many aspects need to improve.