Sentence examples for in constructions from inspiring English sources

It is to ask what is enduringly real and unreal in constructions of class privilege, including those involving sexual roles.

This involves him in constructions of an almost Cubist kind, and in other respects too there are comparisons to be drawn between his art and Picasso's.

When he called the hyphen "the most un-American thing in the world" he was referring to its use in constructions like "German-American" and "Italian-American," not to the mark itself.

As an expert witness, Leonard testified about Hummert's prose style, noting the rare use of what he calls "ironic repetition" in constructions such as "She tried to break it off, so I broke her neck".

But in English, the so-called infinitive "to write" consists of two words, not one: the subordinator "to" and the plain form of the verb "write", which can also appear without "to" in constructions such as "She helped him pack" and "You must be brave".

The consensus among linguists is that Ebonics is an American English dialect differing from other dialects primarily in the higher statistical frequency of nonstandard features, such as the merger of hasn't/haven't and isn't/aren't (even didn't/don't in the case of Ebonics) in the form ain't and the omission of the copula in constructions such as Jesse very tall ('Jesse's very tall').

(See “Bear Plays In Building Construction.”).”

"Unemployment is 30 percent in construction".

Most were working in construction.

The young man was not in construction.

There have also been delays in construction.