Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 2 | That frigid November of ‘ 81 — or was it ‘ 82 ? |
| 3 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 4 | All patients except one were women , aged between 24 and 59 years , who received low total doses of gold salts ( 74–485 mg ) before recognition of enterocolitis . |
| 5 | There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany . |
| 6 | As I walked in the door I was greeted by a new son and a strange emotional mixture of delight and disappointment at not having been there . |
| 7 | The aquatic plesiosaur was first described in 1821 and soon afterwards an almost complete skeleton was unearthed from the rich fossil-bearing rocks of Lyme Regis in Dorset . |
| 8 | The fourth meeting of foreign ministers from the eight signatory countries of the Amazon Co-operation Treaty ( TCA ) — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , Surinam and Venezuela — took place in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz on Nov. 7-8 . |
| 9 | Congress as we all know , the failed economic policies of the government has pushed our nation to the very edge of bankruptcy . |
| 10 | Unless the leaky Government machine has failed to function by spewing out the usual advance warning of announcements in the pipeline , it seems unlikely that the deadline will be met — reflecting the complexities of trying to make rational long-term decisions in energy markets dominated by short-term thinking . |
| 11 | On checking through the Division list , I found that among the Members who sadly threw out that advanced piece of legislation were the right hon. Member for Norfolk , South ( Mr. MacGregor ) and other interesting names . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 13 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 14 | The one exception to that doleful list of Labour Governments who doubled unemployment during their term of office saw unemployment increase by 50 per cent . |
| 15 | In there I have to be courteous but I 'll never forget that you and that bloody rogue of a servant were the last to see my clerk alive ! ’ |
| 16 | And where can you get that bloody kind of money , only corner . |
| 17 | I said no I had that bloody cup of coffee you made . |
| 18 | This hole , which runs parallel to the 10th , is not that long ( 420 yards ) , but that downhill run of nearly 60 feet now has to be traversed in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | We celebrate 70 fabulous years of GH , congratulate The Queen on 40 glorious years and pledge with Princess Anne to make this a successful year for our charity , Victim Support |
| 20 | ‘ The interior of the carriage is lined throughout with delicate blue satin , wadded and tufted , and the angles finished with broad fluted pilaster of the same elegant material . |
| 21 | I start up the engine again and move on , staying within fifty metres of the shore , which is the usual feeding range of the local otters . |
| 22 | Two further years of data will be added to the existing run of 35 years in the archive , a new manual will be prepared for databank users and the project will generate new long-run aggregate series of financial accounts for industries . |
| 23 | By May 1946 a constitution had been drafted which suited the Communist-Socialist approach to politics , with a strong lower house of parliament . |
| 24 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 25 | This was the fundamental ground of the strong emotional dislike of older abolitionists for internal polemics in the movement and distaste for any derogation from a transcendent commitment to the cause . |
| 26 | At first sight it is absurd to propose that Islamic socialization of the economy required the nihil obstat of everyone 's mother-in-law . |
| 27 | The Edwardian trade schools gave rise to the Junior Technical Schools of the interwar years and then after 1944 to the Secondary Technical Schools of the post war reorganisation . |
| 28 | The staff are now not convinced that with the freedom now offered to managers to negotiate local pay bargain , that these historic low levels of pay will improve . |
| 29 | And we went on writing poems , in that luxuriant air of mingled spirituality and sexual anguish . |
| 30 | The next section discusses a model of soil conservation which derived from the perceptions and objective political economic conditions of the ‘ colonial period ’ , stretching from about 1880 — 1960 . |