Infinitive complement

• dress: So, why does marketing provide the cloak that allows the ill-conceived and banal to dress up as brilliant insight?

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: He doesn't like English poetry he finds English poetry very banal.

Modifies a noun

• lyric: And the ability to invest sometimes banal lyrics with meaning and worth is another weapon essential weapon in a jazz singer's armory.

• observation: At this point, it is worth making a banal yet apparently necessary observation about British society today.

• reality: The banal realities of the film industry really do determine what we see on screen.

• object: It is iteration that interests them, and the diverse reactions inspired by apparently banal, mass-produced objects.

• image: For his postcards, Mannocci deliberately chooses the banal clichéd image and sets out to alter its course according to his inner world.

• question: The banal questions she asked the housemates on Friday night ( including the absurd ' How would you like to be remembered?

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: What better way to fill the time than to write an utterly banal post about the weather?

• seemingly: Note how the author's seemingly banal insights into his own life come together to form a coherent, devastating whole.

• rather: South, I sense, finds this rather banal.

• pretty: Not everything works, for example " Rock Star " is a pretty banal song.

• totally: This should have been a thriller on par with The Gift, but instead is totally banal.

• almost: As for Tiger's play-off secret - he made it sound almost banal.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: But the danger is that we just make Conservatism seem banal.

• sound: As for Tiger's play-off secret - he made it sound almost banal.

• become: For a start, repetitions ( not enough food, sending home money ) become banal instead of poignant.