Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Later it would be a solid mass of grey serge and flat caps , blue pipe-smoke mingling with the breath of 1,000 workers in the chill air .
2 The normal forms of glaciated mountains are accepted by all as due to ice erosion and no one would seriously suggest that such features as corries , glacial troughs and overdeepened basins are still being formed .
3 The normal forms of express covenant contained in a lease include amongst others a covenant to repair by the tenant , and a covenant that the tenant will not sublet the premises .
4 The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris .
5 Economic Strategies of Working Class Wives
6 THE PRIVATE PASSIONS OF PUBLIC FIGURES are a constant source of fascination to readers of the tabloid press and to students of literary biography alike .
7 To see this , we must develop the idea of Biomorph Land as a mathematical " space " , an endless but orderly vista of morphological variety , but one in which every creature is sitting in its correct place , waiting to be discovered .
8 In this chapter , I attempt a kind of Which ? report on the supposedly more respectable forms of interior travel .
9 It is the greyed inconsequence of peripheral events .
10 In Flanders , where the cloth trade provided an urban-based industry , the transformation of small centres like Ghent , Ypres , and Lille into the greatest cities of northern Europe was startling .
11 Large-scale maps can incorporate data obtained by dense sampling of small areas , whereas small-scale maps of offshore areas reflect the much lower sampling density possible is such areas .
12 They allow us furthermore to describe not the great history which would carry along all the sciences in a single trajectory , but the types of history — that is to say , of retentivity and transformation — which characterize different discourses … the episteme is not a slice of history common to all the sciences : it is a simultaneous play of specific remanences .
13 In the circumstances of the rapid impoverishment of most people and the simultaneous existence of political freedoms , the revival of communist and socialist movements and parties as a legal opposition to the existing regime was inevitable .
14 Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens .
15 The Economist that bastion of left wing thinking commissioned an actuary to estimate the likely number of vacancies during a parliament ten point seven three sorry to be precise about this colleagues Tory MPs can be expected to die over a full five year term , I 'm sorry for being morbid .
16 An array of medieval and Renaissance furniture , English paintings and portraits , English silver , French wallpaper , the extraordinarily rich assemblage of sixteenth-century paintings , both ‘ official ’ art of the Salons and the Impressionists .
17 They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse .
18 Two old Rolling Thunderites are getting it together to house mini ramps of varying sizes inside a place off Old Street .
19 So he 's saying , it 's a kind of complete kind of lateral thinking .
20 The major research instrument used will be a detailed interview survey of approximately fifty matched pairs of small firms making similar products , drawn from five peripheral regions and matched with the non-assisted area — East Anglia .
21 They sent matched pairs of simulated curriculum vitaes — one bearing an English name and one an Asian name — in response to 23 advertisements for senior house officer posts .
22 One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris .
23 Aunt Molly is dressed in an overstuffed pouch of white feathers , with yellow leggings , plastic claws tied around each high-heeled slipper , and a red coxcomb wobbling on her head .
24 Clinical ecology is one of the more controversial forms of alternative medicine .
25 North America provides , of course , the most striking instance of European settlement on a grand scale .
26 His ideal was ‘ the complete sympathy of complete detachment ’ , but in practice he distanced himself from his subjects and stressed his severity over the underlying sympathy .
27 Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) .
28 Or a political writer of great eloquence .
29 Policy choices will always be made within a relatively narrow spectrum of possible options .
30 Modern interpretation of elite theories seek to show either that key policy offices are held by people from a narrow spectrum of social origins , or that a limited number of people , characterized by close links with one another , dominate decision-making roles .
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