Sentence examples for modify a phrase from inspiring English sources

To borrow and modify a phrase, DYNAMO SMASH!

To borrow and modify a phrase, "They are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing and at the same time signifying something".

Attributive (The sign is "的") ——Attributive is used to modify a noun or a nounal phrase that is usually acting as the subject or object in a sentence.

For example, the yì diǎn 'one dot' phrase in Modern Mandarin can modify a wider variety of predicates.

Perhaps modify an already well known phrase.

Nonetheless, there is a difference between modifying a noun (like 'boy') with a prepositional phrase and modifying a verb phrase ('saw the boy').

That is hyphenated in New York as well as in Sydney because a modifying phrase that expresses a single thought and comes before a noun (in this case, the noun "date") is treated as an adjectival compound and takes a hyphen, as in, "If you buy this milk after the sell-by date, beware of curdling".

In more detail, pattern (B) finds noun phrases in which a tissue modifies a trigger next to it (i.e. ws = 0); and pattern (C) recognizes phrases where a tissue modifies a trigger as a preposition phrase and all components should occur adjacent to each other.

"As Google filters out certain string search phrases, within minutes, the subjects modify the search phrase to once again bypass Google's filters," an F.B.I. agent in San Francisco wrote to colleagues in recommending that an investigation be opened.

A noun modifying a second noun is expressed by the genitive case except in the north, where a prepositional phrase is usually preferred.

Remember that when a participle construction, appositive or other modifying phrase starts a sentence, the person or thing being described should generally come directly after the modifying phrase.