Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] folk " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sizgorić , even though he wrote in Latin , was aware of the rich vernacular folk poetry of the Slav peoples and himself translated a volume of folk sayings and proverbs into Latin . |
| 2 | You had to talk to those dear old folk at the Empress and I do n't blame you . |
| 3 | A very old Russian folk tale claims that once a year the night sky is filled with the thunderous sound of hooves , as magnificent horses , once ridden by famed heroes , ride again . |
| 4 | Although it seemed trivial to high minded folk , like Deputy Matron and Sister Tutor who were burdened with the difficulties of their office , these concerts were so important . |
| 5 | Oldham was the scene of a great building boom in the second half of the nineteenth century , and many ordinary working folk bought shares in the great cotton industry that gave rise to it . |
| 6 | Perhaps arising from the close personal comradeship of those war years was Basil 's empathy with ordinary working folk . |
| 7 | An interesting point to note in real Spanish folk dance is that the boy and girl rarely touch each other . |
| 8 | DARK MUTTERINGS and murderous mechanical edged folk song from ex-Lemon Kitten Karl Blake and his comrade in crime David Knight . |
| 9 | She delivered this extravagant Hungarian folk music with real panache . |
| 10 | These people — ordinary working-class folk like me — had come together to celebrate a gay relationship and to wish it success and happiness . |
| 11 | Taking a holiday here offers the chance to taste the real Italy , the Italy of ordinary everyday folk . |
| 12 | Dear little folk , tiny , with thin high-pitched voices , they sup on toadstools and ‘ fairy butter ’ , the latter being a yellow fungus found in the roots of old trees . |
| 13 | Senile old folk in the passenger seats of cars , their younger relatives smiling bravely . |
| 14 | Lest the bottom-of-the-pile old folk forget , this lot are supposedly Socialists . |
| 15 | Devout lay folk who wished to participate in this daily programme , however , needed their own prayerbooks . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been made privy to the wisdom and knowledge of the Galactic Great Folk , and have returned here to solve all the world 's problems . ’ |
| 17 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |
| 18 | Miguelito strummed a few delicate chords , and began to sing a traditional Spanish folk song in a thrilling deep voice . |
| 19 | One of those great British folk songs . |
| 20 | Their story-book lyrics and whiff of traditional English folk music was just the tonic we needed in the late '80s and Julianne Regan was a strong front woman . |
| 21 | The Minister must know that , when Conservative Members attack local authorities , they are attacking — sometimes unconsciously — dedicated men and women who have fought for years to get first-class old folk 's homes . |
| 22 | We talked of the influences of both Brahms , and also of traditional Irish folk idioms on Stanford 's output . |
| 23 | A shamanist philosophy helped to even the odds against them , and they spread through the Aleutian Islands and along the Arctic coast of North America ( Figure 7.1 ) , forming the distinctive northern folk formerly known as Eskimo , now called Inuit in recognition of their pan-Arctic racial identity . |
| 24 | What about the richness , the diversity of the multicultural society in which all decent non-racist folk take such pleasure ? |
| 25 | Yet it would be anachronistic to assume that they had surrendered their rights in anticipation of Marxist theories about the superiority of the all-Russian market , or that they felt a particular brotherly love towards the Great Russian folk . |
| 26 | At the western end of the Vale of the White Horse in Berkshire dairy farming afforded greater opportunities to smallholders , and poor labouring folk were far fewer than on the Downs . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't some of those batty Jeppy folk call their prophet the Night Watcher ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure it is , too , ’ said their Guider , ‘ but one has to be very careful about offering money to proud and independent old folk like Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 29 | A BIT OF A DO might be fab and the great fat Mexican folk hero Superbarrios is in THE ‘ OTHER ’ AMERICAS . |
| 30 | ‘ Since when do you know any obscene Yiddish folk songs ? ’ asks Minna . |