Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their doctor had murmured something about a weak heart , but Lord Grafton had dismissed the warning , saying the physician was an old woman . |
| 32 | The nymph attempted a final arabesque but the effort proved too much for her weak heart . |
| 33 | Sir Charles ' weak heart had failed , and this had caused his death . |
| 34 | He also learned that Sir Charles believed these supernatural stories , and that he had a weak heart . |
| 35 | Sir Charles ’ terror was so great that his weak heart stopped , and he died , but the animal did not touch the dead body . |
| 36 | — fatly but scruffily ( his weak heart , her illness : |
| 37 | A weak heart could be exahausted , or a heart condition suddenly exposed . |
| 38 | Fred understood Sukie 's vengeful ruse , and most people could have guessed it if they had cared to , which they did n't . |
| 39 | Some can also help to strengthen thin and weak hair whilst others help hair look fuller and healthier . |
| 40 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 41 | ‘ Here are the dishes for the entremet courses , some of those for the roast course , those for the cheese , the savouries and the desserts , the glasses and the coffee cups . |
| 42 | The drained curd , now a solid mass , is turned out of the muslin and the really hard work of milling begins . |
| 43 | Later it would be a solid mass of grey serge and flat caps , blue pipe-smoke mingling with the breath of 1,000 workers in the chill air . |
| 44 | The hygroscopic mixture got damp ; when the humidity went down again it caked into an intractable solid mass . |
| 45 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 46 | Cities are the inverse , containing individual blocks , streets but few voids , lungs : an excessive impression of solid mass and a zero expression of space . |
| 47 | Originally a sial crust had enveloped the earth , but it then split on one side and compressed into the solid mass of the present-day continents . |
| 48 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 49 | The individual cow-pats are often still very hot and plastic when they hit the ground , so that as they pile up one on top of each other , they spread out further , and weld together , forming a solid mass known as spatter . |
| 50 | When the time came for the cake to be cut , Breeze handed the knife to Susan — but her wrists were not strong enough to saw through the solid mass . |
| 51 | Changez 's left arm was withered in some way , and stuck on the end of the attenuated limb was a lump of hard flesh the size of a golf ball , a small fist , with only a tiny thumb projecting from the solid mass where there should have been nimble , shop-painting , box-carrying fingers . |
| 52 | At this stage the fry are totally helpless and they can be seen as a solid mass , quivering like a lump of jelly , and difficult to distinguish as fish at all . |
| 53 | This locks the bricks into a solid mass that can be walked on as soon as it 's finished , providing a surface over which you can barrow more bricks . |
| 54 | There is a limit to the size of picture that you can create in this shape , as a solid mass of flowers can lose all sense of size or identity when it becomes too large . |
| 55 | To the Gaijin rear Jotan 's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat . |
| 56 | Deep in the solid mass beneath her , she heard the laughter . |
| 57 | The walls had long ago disappeared under a solid mass of posters and playbills , some of them so old that they 'd faded completely . |
| 58 | This is caused by energy from a weak field pulsating in harmony with the resonant frequency of ion motion in a steady magnetic field . |
| 59 | It is certain that the vice-chancellor in the chair gained the impression from what was said at the meeting that they were forced to elect from a weak field of candidates . |
| 60 | There are two limiting cases to consider : the weak field case and the strong field case . |