Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The average cost to make these homes decent is £ 16,000 each, or some £ 43 billion in total.

• get: To get anything decent, we are going to edge or go into deco, that also means suitable redundancy.

Infinitive complement

• live: I couldn't believe it when I got somewhere decent to live.

Modifies a noun

• wage: You can visit the house where he lived in Doughty Street once he'd started to earn a decent wage.

• bloke: I can see the Priory being very popular this coming season as the new landlord seems well organized and a decent bloke.

• pension: The Lib Dems will carry on fighting for decent pensions for all.

• living: Iraqis need to be able to earn a decent living, rather than depend on food handouts.

• housing: Yes, we will fight for decent housing for our class, for a myriad of reforms under existing social conditions.

• burial: We were not even allowed to give him a decent burial.

Modifying Another Word

• minimally: In particular, how are we to understand the notion of a ' minimally decent life ' ?

• pretty: There used to be a pretty decent arena in Guilford.

• fairly: However there is a fairly decent selection of photos to be found at the official site at Horsea Dive Center.

• thoroughly: At what cost -- because most of those 88 per cent are thoroughly decent and humane people -- in Iraqi lives?

• perfectly: For once I`m a windows fan:- ) pocketpc is perfectly decent.

• somewhere: I couldn't believe it when I got somewhere decent to live.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Normally I would be the first to do that, but from what I saw he seemed pretty decent to me.

• look: For starters, the graphics engine has been given a sizeable overhaul even at maximum zoom, things look pretty decent.

• sound: The key to making these beats sound decent is pitching them down several semitones - this gives them a trashy feel.

• find: I was struggling to find anywhere decent to bird from near the car and so returned for another brief spell at south Van marshes.

• get: I couldn't believe it when I got somewhere decent to live.