Sentence examples for plural phrase from inspiring English sources

As so often happens, we were thrown off track by the intervening plural phrase "microblog posts".

One solution is to use "all respondents" or another plural phrase in place of "anyone".

The use of the plural noun phrase "weapons of mass destruction" as the first part of a compound adjective modifying the plural noun phrase "program activities" -- with that second noun phrase itself one step removed from an actual "program" -- drew derision-related hooting activity from the many critics of a key justification for the overthrow of Saddam.

And E. J. Lowe declares that he "treats a plural noun phrase like 'the planets' as denoting a set… construed… as being, quite simply, a number of things" (1995: 522 3).

But predicates and plural noun phrases belong to different syntactic and semantic categories.

Perhaps the greatest worry here is that Boolos's translation renders expressions from one category (that of monadic predicates) in terms of expressions from another category (that of plural noun phrases).

Plural noun phrases are converted into singular ones.

They are, you might say, from the original ground zero, or from whatever the proper plural of that phrase is.

(That's if the emphasis is on the all; if the speaker wishes to stress the plural you, the phrase becomes alluhyooz.) And in California, g'yonit signifies "get on it," meaning "get moving".

A fortnight later, the Daily Express replied with its own feature, taking the same four writers and turning the phrase into a plural - Wilson, Osborne, Amis and Hastings were, shouted the headline, "Today's Angry Young Men".

Then il gentil sesso figuratively means le donne; that is, the plural of women, while the phrase is a masculine clause.