Sentence examples for noun construction from inspiring English sources

Despite the topical nature of this emerging field, it can be difficult to muster enthusiasm if your mentor [plural noun construction...] does [singular verb...] not advise you well.

The first constructions resembling classifier constructions were Noun – Number – Noun constructions, which were also extant in Pre-Archaic Chinese but less common than Number – Noun.

The latter was characterized by a predominance of periphrastic verbal-noun constructions at the expense of forms of the finite verb.

Another argument is that the morphemes used to derive denominal verbs come from historical noun incorporating constructions that have become fossilized.

Some 13% of the adjective-noun constructions ("beautiful woman") which the researchers tried were on the money, as were 5% of adverb-verb mixes ("probably keep").One way round that is to combine the ideas of a password and a passphrase into a so-called mnemonic password.

Even though Christy Prunier is the closest noun, in this construction the participle would properly modify the subject, "light bulb," which is not what we intended.

At this time, the Number – Mass-classifier portion of the Noun – Number – Mass-classifier construction is was sometimes shifted in front of the noun.

Separation of church and state ought to be seen as a verb not a noun -- an ongoing construction -- and today we are in a serious period of renegotiation and recalibration of the relationship.

Whorf claimed that they didn't have any words for time – no direct translation for the noun time itself, no grammatical constructions indicating the past or future – and therefore could not conceive of it.

Historians agree that at some point in history the order of words in this construction shifted, putting the noun at the end rather than beginning, like in the present-day construction Number – Classifier – Noun.

In Biblical Hebrew, possession is normally expressed with status constructus, a construction in which the possessed noun occurs in a phonologically reduced, "construct" form and is followed by the possessor noun in its normal, "absolute" form.