˜yÐÄvlog

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nominal sentence

noun

Grammar.
  1. a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of nominal sentence1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

The former civil servant had her nominal sentence of 87 years halved because she pleaded guilty.

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The interference of courts of justice with religious opinions had immensely decreased, and it is now reviving; but it is in your Lordship's power to annihilate it by passings nominal sentence on the defendant.

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They might make all the difference between a nominal sentence as a first offender and five years' penal servitude as an habitual criminal, to say nothing of police supervision afterwards.

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Though, if he can invent for the paramour a German name, he will still receive but a nominal sentence.

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Intimations come out at intervals that the judges will never dare to pass any but a nominal sentence upon him.

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