Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Over the next four months my Green Chromides flourished , attaining an average size of approximately 4½″ . |
| 32 | In January 1973 I found myself , and the grey metal trunk my eldest brother had used to take to university in 1967 , dumped in an austere fifth form dormitory in the main block of the school . |
| 33 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
| 34 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 35 | I give Andy my best impression of a Go ! |
| 36 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 37 | 'E jus ' walked up ter me calm as yer like an' ses , ‘ Tell Mr Maitland 'is ole friends 'ave paid 'im a visit . ’ |
| 38 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 39 | ‘ I was upset over that telegram my beloved son sent . |
| 40 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
| 41 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 42 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 43 | On the substantive point , my hon. Friend will know that I agree with him , for I refused earlier this week to agree in Europe to the sort of laws that would have had the effect my hon. Friend sets out . |
| 44 | In becoming anorexic , I was saying to those who were in effect my social superiors , ‘ I can contribute nothing to the community ; look how little I have/am . ’ |
| 45 | The fascination of a middle-class man such as A. J. Munby with the hands and the boots of working-class women , or ‘ Walter 's ’ fascination with working-class girls in the anonymous sexual chronicle My Secret Life are signs of the complex sexual meanings that frequently resulted . |
| 46 | In some ways it resembles a barchan ( see Chapter 11 ) , but the arms trail , whereas in a barchan the arms or horns lead : the barchan presents its convex face to the wind , the parabolic dune its concave face . |
| 47 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
| 48 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 49 | Speaking about the resurgence of interest in religion which many people see in the world today , the Chief Rabbi , Jonathan Sacks , asks " Whether religious revival might be not a refreshing breeze but a destructive hurricane . " |
| 50 | Claudia nodded , unable to put into words her intense love and longing for Roman . |
| 51 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 52 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 53 | Those who manage the company do not own the company , If the managers of the company display the characteristics which economic theory credits to all other individuals they will be concerned to maximize their own utility rather than the profits of the company . |
| 54 | Dressed in religious vestments their dry delivery and material was new and original . |
| 55 | It was concern about prostitution , venereal disease , maternal mortality and the control of female sexuality that gave gynaecology its distinctive qualities . |
| 56 | Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations . |
| 57 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 58 | Over her traditional ‘ pollera ’ , the wide , thick skirt which indigenous women wear , she has the bright blue overall of the CDA staff . |
| 59 | The Stanford School of Medicine ( which has some 8000 animals in stock ) and the University of California-San Francisco claim that ‘ the legislation creates a great irony by increasing the number of animals which each year will be euthanased instead of being transferred to research facilities . |
| 60 | A goal from former Rangers striker Bobby Williamson two minutes into injury time at the end of the contest handed the Glasgow side their first home defeat since March 1992 . |