The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.

In fact, only the dynamic, the boulomaic and the mood markers behave fairly uniformly. With the other modal categories it is impossible (or would be very inaccurate) to assign them to a specific position or layer as a whole.

The men's downhill race is considered by many to be the blue riband event of the Winter Olympics.

The worn-out soccer players lined up to congratulate the other team.