Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 2 | That frigid November of ‘ 81 — or was it ‘ 82 ? |
| 3 | an enclosed glazed cab with two access doors |
| 4 | It featured an enclosed glazed cockpit for the pilots with sliding panels , and portholes were located along the hull sides . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We note especially the deeply entrenched hierarchical roles in the health professions , the potential for conflict between health and social services personnel , who each control key resources which the other needs , and the effects of gender on individual interactions . |
| 7 | Who is that munching cashews on the tape . |
| 8 | All patients except one were women , aged between 24 and 59 years , who received low total doses of gold salts ( 74–485 mg ) before recognition of enterocolitis . |
| 9 | There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany . |
| 10 | Since they are analysts not practitioners , sociologists , writers and journalists all have relatively weak professional organisations in bourgeois democracies though , given their different working conditions , the NUJ is much stronger than the BSA or PEN . |
| 11 | It is also unclear whether the increased apical membrane K + and Cl - permeabilities result from activation of latent transport systems or , alternatively , from insertion of a separate class of K + and Cl - permeable cytoplasmic vesicles into the apical membrane . |
| 12 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 13 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 14 | As I walked in the door I was greeted by a new son and a strange emotional mixture of delight and disappointment at not having been there . |
| 15 | The aquatic plesiosaur was first described in 1821 and soon afterwards an almost complete skeleton was unearthed from the rich fossil-bearing rocks of Lyme Regis in Dorset . |
| 16 | The port of Southampton was enlarged so that ocean-going liners were attracted to its facilities and in 1933 what was then the largest dry dock in the world was opened by King George V. |
| 17 | Its magnetism is not only spiritual — in some quarters the rock pegmatite has a strange distorting effect on compass bearings . |
| 18 | His mistake was to assume that the Labour party would provide a more receptive political vehicle for his ideas than the Conservatives . |
| 19 | Classes in the faculty are normally conducted in New College , a striking historic building on the Mound in central Edinburgh which includes the largest theological library in Britain . |
| 20 | The fourth meeting of foreign ministers from the eight signatory countries of the Amazon Co-operation Treaty ( TCA ) — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , Surinam and Venezuela — took place in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz on Nov. 7-8 . |
| 21 | Premadasa met with the leaders of anti-LTTE Tamil groups in Colombo on July 13 and 26 . |
| 22 | Congress as we all know , the failed economic policies of the government has pushed our nation to the very edge of bankruptcy . |
| 23 | The strong rural support for the Party is recognized by a call for ‘ a realistic return for the farming community , with special measures to offset the disadvantages , especially in the intensive livestock sector , resulting from our isolation from Great Britain ’ . |
| 24 | Unless the leaky Government machine has failed to function by spewing out the usual advance warning of announcements in the pipeline , it seems unlikely that the deadline will be met — reflecting the complexities of trying to make rational long-term decisions in energy markets dominated by short-term thinking . |
| 25 | Prospective studies in Pima Indians indicate that ‘ thrifty ’ lower metabolic rates in humans may favour weight gain . |
| 26 | She found him behind a tall potted plant in the far corner where , she suspected , he had been deliberately steered by the proprietor in order that as few people as possible should be aware of his presence in the establishment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |