Sentence examples for modal in the from inspiring English sources

Send a piece of music up in the air, doctor and twist it, make it major, minor or modal; in the end it wants to come down to where it started.

The standard view of set-theoretic claims, however, does not see them as strong modal claims at best, some of them are modal in the minimal sense that they are universal generalizations or particular cases of these.

According to Nuyts (2001: 77), the appearance of a modal in the apodosis of a conditional sentence argues particularly for an adverbial analysis, expressing "the speaker's present evaluation (performatively)" of the probability that a particular state of affairs will come about under the conditions given in the protasis (ibid).

An important empirical motivation and justification for Condoravdi's (2002) scope-based analysis of the ambiguity with the "non-root modal + Perf have" construction in English comes from languages like German and Italian, in which "the linear order between the perfect auxiliary and the modal in the syntax mirrors semantic scope" (Condoravdi 2002: 76).

Expand the Solution 1 tab in the Post Processing Navigator and double click on Stress – Element – Nodal Click on the Animation tab and select Modal in the style slot, check Full – cycle, and enter 100 and 1 in Number of Frames and Synchronized frame delay (mS) respectively, click Ok.

We all have cross-modal correspondences where we perceive things with all the senses at once and I became fascinated as to how you could create experiences and bring people closer to the primary modal – in this case, music".

And it allows us to maintain that these magnitudes are non-modal, in the sense that the value possessed by one particular for one magnitude places no constraints of a logical or metaphysical kind on either (i) the value possessed by that particular for any other magnitude, or (ii) the value possessed by any other particular for any magnitude.

The tube shape and velocity profile are measured along the tube length, the velocity profiles being bi-modal in the two lobes (no line or area contact) shape over the tube length of about 8 cm starting from 5 cm near the downstream.

In Meisterernst (2016c), in a study on the scope of negation with deontic modal verbs and predicates, it has been demonstrated that modal bì appears indeed in a position within the lexical layer and lower than the modals bùkĕ yǐ bù and dāng; the latter appear in the layer between epistemic and circumstantial modals in the cartography of modal verbs (see Tsai 2015).

On the whole, the frequency rates of possibility and ability modals appear to be less topic-dependent than obligation and necessity modals in the L2 writing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speakers.

The corresponding distribution of D 1, the delay until the epidemic is first initiated in the at-risk country, is bi-modal in the presence of screening (Figure 3C).