Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ What a bunch of nauseating little warts you are . ’ |
2 | After passing through a number of German private collections it was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1986 . |
3 | The largest collection is of four works in a manuscript of the British Library famous , amongst other things , for a collection of English medieval lyrics it contains , British Library MS Harley 2253 ( a facsimile of this manuscript has been published by the Early English Text Society , Original Series no.255 ) . |
4 | I know the sort of devious little things you get up to . |
5 | They also follow up leads generated by local branches of the Alliance and Leicester who are restricted in terms of the range of Scottish Amicable products they can sell . |
6 | When he bent that famous craggy face and strong jaw down from its natural elevation to the level of ordinary human beings it was not to advance any opinions or tell any anecdotes of his own . |
7 | As the expression of different xenobiotic metabolising enzymes may take part in both the development of colonic neoplasia and drug resistance of established colonic carcinomas we have investigated the expression of cytochromes P450 1A and 3A , epoxide hydrolase , and glutathione S-transferases α , µ , and π in normal colon , colonic adenomas , and adenocarcinoma of the colon . |
8 | In regard to the wealth of individual secular priests we are on firmer ground . |
9 | The growing concern for a unified approach meant that when the Seebohm Committee concluded its review of personal social services it recommended the creation of a single local authority welfare department . |
10 | He looked scared , not so much , Owen judged , because he was in the hands of the police but rather because he was in different surroundings from those he was used to , the modern , built-up , Europeanized part of the city and not the warren of tiny mediaeval streets he normally inhabited . |
11 | On the basis of absolute moral standards we will build a new society . |
12 | In the danger of AIDS and the risks of promiscuous sexual encounters he perceives an old excitement and thrill . |
13 | And for the ‘ trimming ’ of previous Conservative leaders she borrowed Kipling 's words : ‘ I do n't spend a lifetime watching which way the cat jumps . |
14 | Some of the dry goods are housed here , but to find a host of Koi-related decorative items you enter a building that would not look out of place in a Japanese tea garden . |
15 | Certainly at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times we have one of the best documented transgressions of all time . |
16 | There are lots of plain old-fashioned words I can think of right now , going back to the Bible , some of them . ’ |
17 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
18 | Four season bags are for all-year use and five season bags are designed for the kind of extreme cold temperatures you 're likely to find on winter expeditions . |
19 | Though because of small expected frequencies it is difficult to demonstrate significance , the specialist team seemed more likely to provide an alternative service than the generic team . |
20 | According to Thomas Cronin : As Cronin and others suggest , Ford was constantly rebuffed and disappointed by Congress ; his positive achievements in both foreign and domestic policy were few and in any history of presidential congressional relations he is likely to be best remembered for the most extensive use of the negative power of the veto in modern times . |
21 | With gentle faces of mixed racial characteristics they sit and move gracefully in nakedness of near-nakedness . |
22 | I would urge anybody thinking of commercial diving to benefit not just from my experience , but also from the dozens of other commercial divers I know and have heard from . |
23 | In the case of other human beings I have the evidence of my senses for the first and last links of the series , but not for the intermediate link . |
24 | As British women and children continue to fly out of the Gulf , the Oxford based charity Oxfam is trying to increase awareness of other foreign nationals they 've left behind . |
25 | Like a number of other senior ministers he was ambiguous about purity campaigners . |
26 | ‘ It was the first production scale quantity of all-plastic laminated tubes we had made but we met the deadline , ’ said Betts Tubes marketing manager . |
27 | God knows what kind of seedy cinematic productions she was involved in these days . |
28 | This over-vigilance or sensitization meant that you were noticing all sorts of minor physical symptoms you would have normally ignored … . |
29 | In the face of royal financial demands he had to bear in mind the interests of the clergy as well as his duty to the king , and he was subject to some pressure from the Pope to urge the king to pay heed to papal diplomatic overtures aimed at bringing an end to the war . |