Before we compare these constructions with a PPP connected to a verbform of to be in the third person, we shall first discuss the following phenomenon.

Accordingly she was exceedingly elevated; alternately singing pieces of hymns in a hobbling broken voice, having lost her teeth, breaking out into incoherent exclamations, and relating parts of her experience; while I had not room, which indeed I did not much require, to get a word in edgewise.

Since Britain imported mainly foodstuffs from its empire, no preferences could be granted to the colonies without Britain first imposing a tariff on foodstuffs imported from other countries.

Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.