Adjective complement with noun phrase

• have: Do you have anything substantive to say ( apart from confirming my arguments ), or is this it?

Modifies a noun

• revision: Principal Investigator to discuss outcome with Center Lead and agree plan to complete substantive revision of the project ( with support as agreed ).

• motion: Friend the Foreign Secretary, about having a debate on foreign policy on a substantive motion.

• reply: A substantive reply to the complaint will be provided in due course.

• jurisdiction: The Adjudicator may rule on his own substantive jurisdiction, and as to the scope of the Adjudication.

• hearing: The costs in respect of the original substantive hearing had still not been paid.

• determination: The substantive determination, which is the final judgment, always remains with the commissioners.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The talks were detailed, constructive, and very substantive.

• not: Brief extracts from a story are permitted provided they are not substantive.

• only: In a series of amendments to the only substantive item of business this week, ahead of the o. .

• little: As has been noted above there is little substantive evidence, only anecdotes about the odd individual case.

• also: This was particularly true of complex cases where there were also substantive issues in dispute between householders or where legal proceedings were envisaged.

• preferably: These links are included because these sites have unique, relevant and preferably substantive content relating to ethnicity and/or conflict in the country concerned.

Infinitive complement

• say: Do you have anything substantive to say ( apart from confirming my arguments ), or is this it?

Used with adjective complement

• become: Every decision is held in pending for four days before it becomes substantive.

• make: In April 2001 I successfully applied for secondment as Practice Placement Facilitator which was made substantive in June 2003.

Preposition: in

• nature: The talks are all important in themselves and substantive in nature.