Sentence examples for problematic verb from inspiring English sources

Shielding, of course, being the problematic verb here, given that we spend the first decade or so of our children's lives attempting to stand between them and the brutality of the world, and then, slowly, begin to do the opposite, first gently, and later not so gently, shoving them out into the land of competitive sports, college admissions and fire hydrants of all sorts.

What I struggle with (which, like the verb " to find problematic", has become the polite way to say "loathe") is the way that mobster movies invite us to believe that they are deeply meaningful in a way that excuses the heroic portrayal of their gratuitous, male-centered violence.

Our starting point was to use five verbs identified as problematic in O'Donnell et al. (2009).

King recognizes the need for qualifications: verbs in the problematic class can have the content reading with certain special NPs, e.g., quantifiers ('everything Bill holds, Bob holds'), and anaphoric pronouns ('I hold that, too'.).

Syntactically conditioned differences related to structural complexity, problematic use of tense and subject-verb agreement or bundling/DP effects, are not recorded.

Lexical signalling: there were some examples of the use of forceful adjectives, verbs, or nouns implying problematic situations.

It is difficult and problematic to find lexical equivalents of the majority of English Stimulus-subject verbs, such as please, excite, frustrate, in the Mandarin lexicon.

Although grammatical class is problematic as a norming measure, because many words can be read as either verbs or nouns (e.g., call, run, telephone), concreteness can be used as a measure of the intrinsic S properties of the item, which may include both the verbal and nominal uses of items.

This is particularly problematic for versions of the account under which learners must calculate the expected co-occurence of the verb and the un- prefixation construction given their independent frequencies (e.g., Stefanowitsch, 2008).

The verb.

Acutely problematic.