Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Other countries use bells to summon people to church but only the English go in for that cascading sound from a ring of six or more bells — ‘ change ringing ’ . |
| 5 | The key all.unit.id effectively defines a generic heading which contains an integer value for each possible component of a textual identifier . |
| 6 | And we could smell the strong pungent scent of a trotting fox as we trailed dog-like paw marks . |
| 7 | CRUSADERS did n't show a glimpse of their usual goal-snapping fury in a dismal Seaview flop . |
| 8 | After the experience of the 1924 Labour Government , Clifford Allen , now Chairman of the ILP , set up a small commission to plan a coherent economic strategy for a future Labour government . |
| 9 | Gloria said that when a person does not receive the right emotional nourishment at a stage in their life , then they can stay in that emotional period . |
| 10 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 11 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ After all , Alice did sacrifice her virtue for you and that grubby brat of a brother — Edward , was it ? ’ |
| 13 | This was the heart-stopping moment shared by millions of TV viewers yesterday when the Italian ace cheated death in a spectacular 100mph crash . |
| 14 | Second , the book is informed by professional economic competence to a degree rare when looking at Russia . |
| 15 | ‘ The point is that the people inside the organisation are clearly the best at knowing what it does and it is vital to harness that inside knowledge through a multidisciplinary team . ’ |
| 16 | North knew ‘ in my heart ’ , that this was not so , but the note from start to finish was an admission of total emotional entanglement in a cause . |
| 17 | Looking out of a tall narrow window at a winter sky , the only source of light in a darkened room . |
| 18 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 19 | The formation of a coalition government is normal political practice in a situation of war but , in the case of this first Francoist government , there were two reasons behind this choice . |
| 20 | The crux of his reasoning was that British connections with the Commonwealth , with European states outside the EEC , and with the United States would transform a cohesive European community into a larger and looser Atlantic community under American control . |
| 21 | A tall humanoid creature with a large , fierce-looking helmet stepped out and headed towards Bash , who raised his axe and prepared for battle . |
| 22 | I also took a few injudicious swigs of potent farmhouse cider -but more of that liquid indiscretion in a moment . |
| 23 | This comes from Michael Crawford as the luckless cashier who couples a weedy spineless manner with a staggering display of gymnastic comedy , catching armfuls of books , left hanging by one hand from a picture frame in mid-chase , and executing a perfect dive through a kitchen hatch . |
| 24 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 25 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 26 | A problem with any rule-based grammar is that complete coverage of a natural language is not possible . |
| 27 | But in that very same instant , momentarily demolishing her composure , the door burst open with the force of an explosion and a tall dark-haired figure in a charcoal-grey suit came striding purposefully into the hall . |
| 28 | Richard Alexander ( C , Newark ) told World at One on Radio 4 that a short-term political fix without a long-term strategy for coal would mean he would not support the Government when the vote comes . |
| 29 | There is a strange grafted conjunction between a laburnum and a pink cytisus ( best avoided ) , and a fernery in a secret gully reached by walking a gangplank over a rushing rivulet . |
| 30 | Probably the finest surviving instance of a fortified town is at Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber , which still retains its picturesque walls and towers . |