Example sentences of "[adj] let [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4.1 Let us now consider the fourth position for adjectives : predicate qualifying occurrence , seen in : ( 1 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong the jury found Ernest guilty she buys her dresses ready-made |
| 2 | your suspicions , tell me if I 've got it wrong , erm , it is that er erm are concerned through the chain of command that you 've identified , let's say the United Kingdom in effect will be leaving it to er , erm to deal with virtually all er aspects of solvency and protection of policy holders erm the subject to let us specifically prescribed by the er nineteen eighty two Insurance Act |
| 3 | She told Julia only that the doctor had been wonderful in finding her son and in promising to let him live in the Campo San Maurizio . |
| 4 | Before I do that let me just digress and say one word about books , I 've had a few people ask me about books erm I gather that the distinguished Durham bookshops have sold out of my wonderful book but I gather that lorries are hurtling up motorways with |
| 5 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 6 | 3.4 Let us now turn to the postnominal attributive adjectives . |