Adjective complement with noun phrase

• call: But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Modifies a noun

• motive: For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you.

• limestone: There are few fossils in these rocks, which are mainly impure, muddy limestones.

• copper: Copper sulfide ores can be rapidly roasted in heated air to form impure copper, this is called ' flash smelting ' * .

• thought: Nowadays whenever I have an impure thought I can hear the priest wheezing.

• soul: The impure souls from the first song have been purified to ash; the grim reaper scattering their remains over the burnt earth.

• air: The old factories were often low, damp or dusty rooms with impure heated air causing constant perspiration.

Modifying Another Word

• ritually: Women, who were ritually impure through birth or menstruation, were not allowed access to game.

• very: Often our competitors use very impure ' tough pitch ' copper, which has about 1500 crystals or grains in each foot.

• so: When retorted on the mine it was turned out in a black cake so impure as almost to make it impossible to smelled properly.

• always: And yet action is always impure, always incomplete.

• also: However, these early extracts were also impure and unsuitable for human use.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: They harassed Iraqis who smoked cigarettes or drank water using their left hand, which is considered impure.

• become: How will those, who become impure at the mere breath of others, purify others?

• render: Occasioned by the air being rendered impure from the smoke of a fire engine, placed about 100 feet underground.