Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ After all , Alice did sacrifice her virtue for you and that grubby brat of a brother — Edward , was it ? ’ |
| 7 | Second , the book is informed by professional economic competence to a degree rare when looking at Russia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Looking out of a tall narrow window at a winter sky , the only source of light in a darkened room . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I also took a few injudicious swigs of potent farmhouse cider -but more of that liquid indiscretion in a moment . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Hox-B2 response to RA. g-i , Normal staining patterns of a Hox-B2/lacZ transgene which is primarily expressed in r4 and neural crest migrating into the second branchial arch . |
| 15 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Financial markets had expected Mr Lawson to give a clear signal on when the pound will enter the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System in a speech to the City at the Mansion House next Thursday . |
| 18 | The jet-black F1 , with its giant chrome tailpipes , brought back that classic look with a vengeance . |
| 19 | whether they 're correctly or incorrectly go through it , each each bit at a time , show me how you 're checking it . |
| 20 | Is that that kind of a swelling you get that swelling ? |
| 21 | If , for example , the normal retiring age for a post is 60 , those who are retained over this age may be discarded at any time by the employer . |
| 22 | This was welcome news to those who sought a federal Europe , for the federalist implications of the dilemma were very clear : a European army would need European political control of a type that could not be provided by the EDC institutions . |
| 23 | Hence , in this case there is a lower measured exothermicity from a structure which is already partially disordered at the lowest temperature from which ΔH is measured . |
| 24 | Outside the all-purpose store , bar and scrubbing-brush shop was a line of toothless old men on a bench . |
| 25 | Leaning back in a creaky old chair in a Padstow café , faced with yet another cream tea was the perfect way to round off a fabulous week 's backpacking on part of the South West Coast Path . |
| 26 | When he reached it there was a sprinkling of cars but no decrepit old van with a CND symbol on its side . |
| 27 | Another cause is that complete regions of DNA are transposed from one part of the molecule to another , or that foreign DNA from a virus has been inserted . |
| 28 | The solid old barrel of a body moved stiffly but not very carefully , like a heavy vehicle in low gear . |
| 29 | In other cases it is possible to substitute progressively pure 13 Co for normal 12 CO in a complex . |
| 30 | It is surprising how many herbs can thus be fitted in before that agonizing search for a space for yet another indispensable plant proves that the only vacancy is the concrete path surrounding the dustbins . |