Relative clauses preceding numeral phrases modify the whole numeral phrase, while relative clauses appearing in the position between the unit word and the noun of a numeral phrase modify only the noun.
This phrase modifies the entire main clause before it.
(53) 'One'-phrases as minimizers in the existential construction VO word order OV word order 'one'-phrase followed by another expression of predication √ x 'one'-phrase modified by a relative clause √ √. 'One'-phrases as minimizers in the existential construction.
The test cases were conditionals that quantify over situations that are "minimal" in a way that is responsive to specific properties of their antecedents: the presence of count nouns versus mass nouns, telic versus atelic verb phrases, modified versus unmodified numerals, negative versus positive quantifiers.
Participial phrases modify noun, as in the first line of James Joyce's "Ulysses": "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed".
And I'd say that "boats against the current" is an appositive modifying "we" and that "borne back ceaselessly into the past" is a participial phrase modifying boats.
"If the phrase 'genetically modified' was not attached, I don't think people would even mind".
The company, Oxford Insect Technologies in its unabbreviated form, believes its technique is effective, cheap and far less damaging to the environment than the use of pesticides but its problem is the phrase "genetically modified" and the kneejerk fears it engenders.
(The catch phrase was modified momentarily to, "Let the people pee" when the crowd wasn't allowed to leave the House chambers).
The phrase "genetically modified" immediately rings alarm bells for many, and the controversial legacy of GM crops means it's a no-brainer for some to immediately dismiss these insects as potentially dangerous "franken-mosquitoes" that could do more harm than good.
