Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we went on writing poems , in that luxuriant air of mingled spirituality and sexual anguish . |
| 2 | All glaciers are dirty where they end with that sticky paste of ground-up rock . |
| 3 | The sole surviving member of that family still lives in Cotherstone , just a few yards down the road from Hannah 's cottage . |
| 4 | Until recently the Antikythera mechanism was thought to be the sole surviving example of mathematical gearing in the Hellenistic tradition . |
| 5 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 6 | The cafe turned out to be a strange garish world of sandy yellow . |
| 7 | The classic surviving example of this pattern is the Church of S. Martin at Frómista , which is roughly half-way between Burgos and León on the route . |
| 8 | I did like the smells ; drifts of Johnson 's baby shampoo wafting from her hair and mine , the beachy , balmy smell in my face as we ascended Elderberry Road , that persevering odour of fresh tar and suntan oil . |
| 9 | Where was that hard-earned gloss of calm efficiency that she had cultivated over the years ? |
| 10 | The most striking political expression of this reaction was the establishment of the system known as polysynodie ( government through councils or committees in place of Secretaries of State ) in 1716–18 . |
| 11 | The most common problem arises from that annoying characteristic of British weather , the late spring frost . |
| 12 | In that interim period of that work the draft P P G three came out , and made it quite clear that the new settlement would have to lie without beyond the outer edge of the greenbelt , and that was a fur a further consideration . |
| 13 | Within , there was that rich smell of better-class department stores : an expensively achieved amalgam of perfume , out-of-season flowers , new leather and virgin fabrics . |
| 14 | These have a solid cellular core of unplasticised polyvinyl chloride ( upvc ) enclosed in a smooth , durable outer skin , and they can be sawn and drilled just like timber . |
| 15 | In that narrow passage of navigable water , the clutter of ships had no room to manoeuvre . |
| 16 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 17 | The politico-military problem that we face in our post-imperial era is how to maintain the greatest practicable measure of national independence without jeopardizing the security of our islands and of our wider interests in the world at large . |
| 18 | When it comes to sharing development and production with our European partners , we have the common aims of all middle powers : protecting our own national armament industries ; and preserving the greatest practicable measure of military independence . |
| 19 | There is one ancillary , but useful , method of checking completeness , which is by the ‘ catchwords ’ , not often used today , but formerly courteously provided at the lower right-hand corner of each page of a book , below the last line . |
| 20 | At most the bourgeoisie could embrace the ‘ hypocritical private cosmopolitanism of free trade ’ . |
| 21 | On each pleasant bank of this world is to be a beautiful mansion … a moderately sized park ; a large garden and hothouses ; and pleasant carriage drives through the shrubberies . |
| 22 | But I do n't know quite how the Welsh mentality works you know as regards you know loyalty to one 's nation or whatever , but er no , l looking from the outside you know , I I thought it was a bit strange that sort of next door neighbours could end up you know completely opposed to each other . |
| 23 | This 1989 lives up to the standard of the previous vintage : smoky , lightly spicy dry white of immense charm and character . |
| 24 | Although these impairments must be of concern , we emphasise that most early treated children fall within the broad normal range of general ability and attend ordinary schools . |
| 25 | I saw there were some middle-aged men , single or in small groups , who all wore very dark glasses and pencil-thin moustaches , light raincoats hanging effetely from their shoulders in that Spanish fashion of male superiority that is elsewhere considered the mark of a homosexual . |
| 26 | Its craftsman made upholstery is from the Allied classic range of sculptured moquette in a subtle blend of fresh shades . |
| 27 | Nor could the Reverend Baron but he left immediately he heard in May that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had abdicated : that , he vowed , was the clearest possible indication of open war and he wanted to be away . |
| 28 | This elaborate state structure , providing in principle for the greatest possible degree of local self-government , was none the less based upon the principle of democratic centralism which meant that , in the last resort , central decisions could be imposed upon levels of government below them . |
| 29 | In Britain 's heyday we provided financial subsidies as well ; but though we have retained our fighting abilities , as was demonstrated by the Falklands Campaign , the decline in our resources relative to the superpowers now limits our influence and inhibits our quest for the greatest possible measure of national independence . |
| 30 | A leading novelist and vice-president of the ruling Hungarian Democratic Forum ( MDF ) , Csurka , exploiting a strong historical vein of extreme nationalism and anti-Semitism , had published an article on Aug. 20 demanding an end to moderation and compromise . |