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The two objections I see with this would-be super-short supersentence are, first, the highly elliptical and not terribly idiomatic omission of any overt identification of the clausal status of the word painful , and second, the analysis of the thoroughly idiomatic three-word phrase, you're disgusted by as an adjective clause containing a participial phrase and a rather elliptical prepositional phrase.
Built in 1679, it has towering columns and an unusual elliptical dome.
At a Washington retirement home, the president helped demolish a wall to make room for a health clinic, an activity meant, in some weirdly elliptical way, to commemorate the life of the Rev.
Our previous study demonstrated a 12% average decrease in elliptical angle and A-P axis measurements between aged transparent lenses and those of age-related nuclear cataracts [ 4 ] ; this is roughly the same amount of change reported here between transparent and nuclear cataractous diabetic lenses (11% decrease).
This change in length has an observable effect on the reduction of both anterior and posterior FN elliptical angles, and manifests itself in the EN as accordion-like membrane folds along the straight fibers.