Example sentences of "a terrible [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are a people who ask for little but who are enormously and genuinely grateful for any help ’ , wrote one official who witnessed a terrible drought in Masailand in the early 1960s : ‘ They live a hard life uncomplainingly . ’ |
| 2 | Bede tells the story that , so backward were the heathen South Saxons that although a maritime race , they did not know how to fish and were given to mass suicides from convenient cliffs when the corn harvest failed after a terrible drought . |
| 3 | Many of the people were dying because of a terrible drought and famine . |
| 4 | Thanks to [ the regime ] we were victorious in our war , we escaped another , we resisted the most serious international conspiracy ever recorded and we have overcome with minimum destruction the economic difficulties of two wars , the unending neglect to which our predecessors subjected our economy , and a terrible drought which has put the production and the resilience of our Fatherland to the test in this period . |
| 5 | There is a terrible secret in the lives of Michael Magenis and Martin Plimmer : they are serious journalists . |
| 6 | Did she know a terrible secret from his past , which she had threatened to tell ? |
| 7 | Time now passed untrackably , for it was given over to struggle , with the bed like a trap or a pit , covered in nets , and the sense of starting out on a terrible journey , towards a terrible secret . |
| 8 | ‘ It is a terrible place with a terrible secret . ’ |
| 9 | My glance fell upon a stricken shrub and I became aware of a terrible aloneness in that sullen and deserted place . |
| 10 | I felt as if I was under a terrible spell , and I trembled , afraid that I might not be able to escape . |
| 11 | Cos Bill ca n't cook , you know , he 's a terrible cook ! |
| 12 | It 's a terrible scheme . |
| 13 | The independence of Croatia and Slovenia left Bosnians a terrible choice : staying with Serbia and Montenegro or declaring an independent state , sovereign and recognised but unable to defend itself . |
| 14 | You must think me a terrible whiner . " |
| 15 | Their migration must bring to Slorne a terrible longing for the land she was taken from . ’ |
| 16 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 17 | Even now as she looked into those harsh , compelling features , she knew only a terrible longing to simply throw herself into his arms , to find the sanctuary and warmth only he could give her . |
| 18 | There was a terrible nervousness which you do n't expect from a man of that age , and of that standing in the ministry . |
| 19 | With a terrible flash that all but blinded the onlookers the island vanished , around it the storm of magical energy . |
| 20 | Tonight there was a terrible neutrality between cooking and such love and service . |
| 21 | Although she is now slim , Liz confesses to a terrible struggle with her weight , which makes peasant-style clothes , such as Monsoon 's glorious Tibetan embroidered skirt ( see page 16 ) particularly good for her : ‘ I put on a great deal of weight after the twins were born , and when I started diving , it became very obvious because fat floats , so you have to balance your weight with extra diving weights . |
| 22 | To have both a family and interesting work means a terrible struggle , and yet I think that those are the things that make for human happiness . |
| 23 | It was like a terrible dream , ’ remembers Rosemerry . |
| 24 | But last night I had a strange dream , a terrible dream ! |
| 25 | As she did this , she looked at the newspaper and read some of the words on the page … and it was like a terrible dream . |
| 26 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 27 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 28 | It was Tilly who crushed the Bohemians at the White Mountain and who established a terrible reputation for ferocity by his sack of Magdeburg . |
| 29 | The new Edwardians — who , as I will show , had much more in common with the original Edwardian youth than is usually supposed — swiftly gained a terrible reputation for gang fights , vandalism , street robberies , rock-and-roll cinema riots , and attacks on cafe owners and late-night bus crews . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's got a terrible reputation . ’ |