Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: What is it that makes people nowadays hostile to them, and how could that be changed?

Infinitive complement

• trade: The Center was council funded and it was only a matter of time before a council hostile to trade unions cut their funding.

Modifies a noun

• takeover: The very purpose of the Network is to mount a hostile takeover of the Episcopal Church.

• intent: If he has a weapon or hostile intent, you can shoot to kill.

• bid: The LSE abandoned the deal in order to fight off a hostile bid from OM, the company that runs Sweden's exchange.

• territory: He didn't like being enclosed in a small space, especially in hostile territory.

• environment: Tobacco was a comfort in a very hostile environment.

• reception: Game played at his opponent checked of uranium are hostile reception they.

Modifying Another Word

• openly: Others are openly hostile to the grace of God shown in Jesus.

• implacably: The court's capacity to resolve the challenge of what has been called the implacably hostile parent is evident.

• overtly: Some reaction was overtly hostile, with complaints being made that the migrants were a burden on the system of poor relief.

• downright: Keyhoe's UFOs were always neutral at best, at worst, downright hostile.

• bitterly: Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

• mutually: Great works of art - and such Dawn of the Dead undeniably is - allow a multitude of different and often mutually hostile interpretations.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: However, areas were variable and some areas appeared hostile to adoption.

• remain: However, if the university remained hostile, the Friends gained sympathy in the town.

• seem: Much of the area feels private and protected, which in combination with a fairly noisy environment seems relatively hostile.

• become: The attitude of general counsel became noticeably more hostile toward their external lawyers through 2001.

• sound: I don't want to sound too hostile to the Leppers - I suppose even lip service is better than nothing.

• get: He also has a clinical interest in the practice of medicine in hostile environments, and it doesnât get more hostile than Everest!