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"But every hundred pages or so — " she looked up forlornly — "there's one sentence that goes on for three pages, full of modifying clauses and gerunds".
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One can, for example, modify clause (5) by requiring that all free occurrences of y in M are rewritten so that they do not become bound after substitution.
A single sentence builds through its multiple modifying clauses, across lines and stanzas that seem here to flinch from anticipated punishment, toward the final, painful disclosure.
"But today," he added, "the court takes all the starch out of its rule with an assortment of adjectives, adverbs and modifying clauses".
His modifying clauses are abstract.
Seidman noted that it isn't "perfectly clear which clause modifies which clause" and, therefore, hard to know whether Trump is president until Pence et al. reply or whether they maintain the presidency for those four days, giving it up if they don't object.
The committee, among others, attempts to address two pressing electoral concerns - removing or modifying the clause that prevents Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming the country's president, and allowing states to choose their own chief ministers.
In arguing that the clause amounted to economic exploitation of the players, Mr. Scully anticipated an arbitration decision the next year that considerably modified the reserve clause and opened baseball's era of free agency.
He's probably stuck with the long-term contracts of aging forwards Ryan Kesler, Ryan Getzlaf, and Corey Perry, who all have no-move clauses, but he might be able to part with goaltender Ryan Miller, who has a modified no-trade clause and submitted a six-team list of acceptable destinations according to capfriendly.com.com
The three were also accused of modifying the termination clauses in their employment contracts to ensure that they would receive multimillion-dollar payouts even if they were fired for cause.
The principles are as follows: (i) relative clauses modify what follows them and (ii) the scope of modification is the elements to the right of the modifier.
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