Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view is reinforced by the writings of some of the early church fathers such as St John Chrysostom , who observed that there was no conflict over natural common property such as air , sun , water , earth , sea , light and stars or even man-made common property such as baths , cities , markets and arcades , but only over private property which created what he termed that frigid expression ‘ Thine and Mine ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Was your betrothed Matilda 's man ? ’ he went on , still in that frigid tone . |
| 3 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 4 | Geoff Tulloch referred to her as ‘ that frigid bitch ’ . |
| 5 | That frigid November of ‘ 81 — or was it ‘ 82 ? |
| 6 | Although from our experience of just a while ago I would say that , undoubtedly , beneath that frigid exterior there lurks an inferno of quite gigantic proportions . ’ |
| 7 | They will work so much better on the day if they are given that advance preparation . |
| 8 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 9 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 10 | Yeah , well I bought , I got the C D cheap enough , you know when I bought them that mini unit , that went just after a year , that bloody thing when it packed up , do you remember it was playing in night , in the middle of the night and my dad got up and said what pratt 's playing music , it 's his own ha |
| 11 | The insufferable Untermeyer in 1923 castigated the texture of The Waste Land as ‘ that formless plasma which Mr Ezra Pound likes to call a Sordelloform ’ ; and in the same year in London , Clive Bell , the voice of ‘ Bloomsbury ’ , said of Eliot that ‘ no aesthetic theory can explain his indiscreet boosting of … the lamentable Ezra Pound ’ . |
| 12 | Locally , for example , Thirsk ( 1973 , p. 262 ) notes that ‘ The nature of the farming economy in each agricultural region gave a certain bias to its bylaws ; communities inhabiting the same kinds of countryside upheld some regulations with great fidelity , while others did not ’ . |
| 13 | Who is that munching cashews on the tape . |
| 14 | The bubble , that frail bubble which had seemed to float above us , invisible symbol of the understanding and trust which was to have helped us to live together , shuddered and sank ; then bravely rose again into the air , though not now quite as high as before . |
| 15 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 16 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 17 | ‘ If that unwritten law has been broken then heads will have to roll . ’ |
| 18 | The 20th century Serbian history of wars also proves that rooted connection . |
| 19 | Yeah and then he 's got that roast potato |
| 20 | ‘ Catch that devil-damned rein ! ’ |
| 21 | These are small boas which , if molested , first coil themselves up tightly , then release a foul-smelling fluid from special glands , giving the impression that they are rotting and that advanced putrefaction has already set in . |
| 22 | On checking through the Division list , I found that among the Members who sadly threw out that advanced piece of legislation were the right hon. Member for Norfolk , South ( Mr. MacGregor ) and other interesting names . |
| 23 | Why should the commission believe that advanced mousetrap manufacture , say , should be represented in at least two member states when one manufacturer might supply the whole of Europe with the products and thus could be better placed to export as well ? |
| 24 | I suddenly wondered , why did they send him on that Adventuring course ? |
| 25 | Conversely , too much upper pectoral development and too little lower pectoral development gives the impression of a chest that ‘ fades ’ away . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 27 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 28 | Plants have little specific focus for mind energy , such as we see it in the brain and central nervous system of insects and higher species . |
| 29 | Little specific attention was paid to older people in the White Paper , Working for Patients , nor to the effect on them of changes in the GP contract , but the implications of the changes for the care of older patients may be significant . |
| 30 | And the brand name acts as a reassurance to the reader that the terms of that salacious propriety , Romance , will not vary . |