Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britta shook her hair free of the long fingers and their slow stroking . |
| 2 | But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s . |
| 3 | In 1864 , after the 1863 uprising and the massive repression that followed its collapse , Julian Łukaszewski , a former Polish commissioner in the Prussian government , wrote a pamphlet despairing of the Polish people 's ability ever again to control their own destiny : |
| 4 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She searches him every time he comes home or goes out , and she keeps his bedroom bare of the usual toys and clutter so that she can see at a glance whether he has hidden any stolen property . ’ |
| 5 | On Oct. 24 the Senate narrowly failed to override the veto , voting by 66 to 34 in favour of the bill , one vote short of the two-thirds majority necessary to enact it over the objections of the President . |
| 6 | Concern with the disincentive effects of taxation has , however , been a continual theme during the whole period covered by this study irrespective of the prevalent rates of taxation or the level of public expenditure . |
| 7 | The harmonic effect is dissonant , but not unpleasantly so , and the absence of chromaticism means that a background feeling of unity typical of the diatonic system is retained : |
| 8 | It is an overstatement typical of the worst type of ‘ leap of faith ’ and can not be allowed to pass . |
| 9 | After three weeks ’ hard pounding , both administered and received , the melancholy of the Conservative campaign ‘ A-team ’ suddenly lifted and journalists attending their morning news conference were treated to a double act worthy of The Two Ronnies . |
| 10 | The emphasis is added here ; but even more emphatic was the JCS opinion that , in the event of an overt attack by organized Chinese communist forces in Indo-China , the US should not permit itself to become engaged in a general war with communist China although assistance short of the actual employment of US military forces should be provided . |
| 11 | Simon Long adds from Beijing : China seems to be retreating into a diplomatic posture reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution , at odds with both Washington and Moscow , and firing frequent broadsides against all-comers for alleged interference in its internal affairs . |
| 12 | Simon Long adds from Beijing : China seems to be retreating into a diplomatic posture reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution , at odds with both Washington and Moscow , and firing frequent broadsides against all-comers for alleged interference in its internal affairs . |
| 13 | It is a scene reminiscent of the palaeolithic cave paintings and the much later Hodening and Horn dancing which survived until recent times , but today only at Abbotts Bromley , Staffs . |
| 14 | All this will have to be conducted against a timescale mindful of the second Danish referendum on 18 May and a likely post-treaty intergovernmental conference in the summer . |
| 15 | Specks of the blood spattered his face , then the Frenchman was falling away and his dying weight ripped his body clear of the long steel blade . |
| 16 | The long period of gestation of the new legislation which began in the climate of reform typical of the 1970s but became entangled then in the fiscal and ideological retrenchment of the 1980s , reveals the complexity of the political debate and the variety of interests that had to be reconciled in drafting a new legal reference point that would modernize Germany 's approach to all questions of youth while at the same time express continuity . |
| 17 | Bird , now 59 , will be one match short of the legendary Frank Chester 's record of 48 Tests . |
| 18 | When Sarella pushed it open she found herself in a sunlit room full of the latest office equipment . |
| 19 | He left behind a butler and a cellar full of the highest quality drink . |
| 20 | Why has the United Nations been so slow to act effectively to stop the Serb-led aggression reminiscent of the worst of communist thuggery ? |
| 21 | In a move reminiscent of the 1991 summit which had ended with meetings between G-7 leaders and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev , G-7 leaders held post-summit talks with Russian President Boris Yeltsin who had been formally invited in June . |
| 22 | It is in these countries , particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , that significant upturns in the economy have done little to relieve a sense of urban crisis reminiscent of the 1960s , although the political terms of debates that address urban problems have changed dramatically over this time . |
| 23 | To a tourist weary of the overcrowded and faded resorts of the Mediterranean , Antigua and the Virgin Islands were indeed like Milton 's Paradise regained . |
| 24 | In the area of defence , the foremost claimant for government funds in time of war , the picture available of the two belligerents ' military machines , like that of their finances , is not always very clear . |
| 25 | According to the old Princess , she was the granddaughter of Fateh-ul-Mulk , the heir apparent of the last Mogul Emperor , Bahadur Shah Zafur II . |
| 26 | Director general of the Japanese fisheries agency , Kazuo Shima , said " the Americans and Europeans have turned whales into a sacred animal , like the Hindu cow … |
| 27 | Terence Empson , director general of the Historic Houses Association , said he would be ‘ fairly astonished ’ if Mr Lamont took action on the issue this year . |
| 28 | Nicholas Garnett has been appointed Director General of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , based in London , UK . |
| 29 | The results come hard on the heels of a forecast by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , who says he is confident that a series of factors will lead to a ‘ relaunch ’ of nuclear power in a few years ' time . |
| 30 | Mr Martin Holgate , formerly chief scientist at the environment department and now director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources based in Geneva , will summarise the possible action to be taken a role which he performed brilliantly at the recent London ozone conference . |