Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , in due course a suitable solatium in the form of an apology was offered to Harold Wilson — or at lest a solatium which he regarded as suitable since he possesses the invaluable quality of being able to convince himself of the correctness of whatever he does — and the matter ended . |
| 2 | To me , he wrote on 10 February as follows , the invective being tempered by the desire expressed at the beginning that we should have in due course a prolonged tête-à-tête : |
| 3 | I would always advise a small bit of brush on the takeoff side of the jump and in due course a white tape on the landing side . |
| 4 | He himself got landed with a boring little man from Luton , who was a great stalwart of the local amateur dramatic society there and clearly , though he did n't quite put it into words , thought The Hooded Owl a pale shadow of their recent production of When We Are Married . |
| 5 | He 's struck it well enough Roberto and then his European debut a terrific stop . |
| 6 | But the ethos of the system and the reality of democratic centralism lend to its political machinations a different flavour and bias from that found in any system plausibly termed pluralistic . |
| 7 | At different periods for political reasons a local deity might be raised to become a state god , a position which could be temporary or permanent . |
| 8 | Whom did they annoy and to whom was their possible presence a political danger ? |
| 9 | At the economic level a similar commitment was given to support the " profound readjustment " of the region 's economies in order to achieve recovery and growth . |
| 10 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 11 | In no sense whatever was Korean communism a monolithic movement ; it was riddled with internal divisions and did not become relatively unified until Kim Il Sung purged his opponents in the 1950s after the Korean War . |
| 12 | Napoleon and Hitler gave European unity a bad name . |
| 13 | Pacem in Terris summed up Pope John 's magisterium , and gave the age-old term a new meaning . |
| 14 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 15 | And it gives those of us with a history of less stable relationships a certain amount of hope for the future ! |
| 16 | I like to make to Mr Hopkin is private citizen a small gift of Frenloudji book , which is the only abject in my possession and to give him handshake for last time . |
| 17 | Japan has not found the fluctuations of the yen against the dollar and European currencies a serious barrier to its ability to increase exports . |
| 18 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 19 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 20 | ‘ The Sabbath is made for man , ’ and with its unpretentious yet pregnant ceremony a special grace overcomes those present . |
| 21 | THE ‘ Grim Reaper ’ of ice hockey explained the role he has at Wembley Arena today : ‘ I go out and do a job on anyone who is giving our top scorers a hard time . ’ |
| 22 | The car itself a new Rover 3500 was far from memorable in Gloucestershire ; it was probably the only British saloon a local landowner would think of owning . |
| 23 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 24 | They can be used as a single axis system , but for a detailed description a multiaxial code is recommended . |
| 25 | None the less James could also acknowledge that " There is no teacher of English in our universities more desirous and more able to make the study of English literature a living power than Dr. Leavis . " |
| 26 | At a different level a key factor affecting the uneasy dialogue between purists and the state was the partial transformation of political discourse itself . |
| 27 | The low right-hand block held the boilers , the tall central structure the beam engine and the narrow left-hand building a gigantic wheel with slats that scooped the water into the river . |
| 28 | And then , just as if in answer to her private thought , the pilot went on : ‘ I 'd like to kiss each one of you before I go , but as I ca n't very well do that I 'll give your Brown Owl a big thank-you kiss for you all ! ’ |
| 29 | In the 1940s there was an agent in Madeira for recruiting emigrants , and he gave would-be emigrants a medical examination and enquired into their marital status , number of children , qualifications and so on . |
| 30 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |