My ordinarily even disposition was shattered, I thought, beyond repair — a condition that was not improved by my utter abhorrence of a diet of infant's food and anemic vegetables.

Imperative and propositive (ie, 'let us V type) sentences were excluded.

She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.

After having done a soulsearch regarding the role computers have to play in chemical and metallurgical undergraduate training, we at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering of the University of Stellenbosch arrived at similar conclusions as those given by Evans.