Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The normal forms of glaciated mountains are accepted by all as due to ice erosion and no one would seriously suggest that such features as corries , glacial troughs and overdeepened basins are still being formed . |
| 3 | The normal forms of express covenant contained in a lease include amongst others a covenant to repair by the tenant , and a covenant that the tenant will not sublet the premises . |
| 4 | While short term evaluation after fundoplication , as a rule , shows normal values of 24 hour oesophageal pH measurements , rise of lower oesophageal sphincter pressure and probably correction of reflux induced disturbances of motility. little is known of the longterm effects of fundoplication on oesophageal function . |
| 5 | The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris . |
| 6 | Economic Strategies of Working Class Wives |
| 7 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 8 | THE PRIVATE PASSIONS OF PUBLIC FIGURES are a constant source of fascination to readers of the tabloid press and to students of literary biography alike . |
| 9 | To see this , we must develop the idea of Biomorph Land as a mathematical " space " , an endless but orderly vista of morphological variety , but one in which every creature is sitting in its correct place , waiting to be discovered . |
| 10 | In this chapter , I attempt a kind of Which ? report on the supposedly more respectable forms of interior travel . |
| 11 | It is the greyed inconsequence of peripheral events . |
| 12 | Large-scale maps can incorporate data obtained by dense sampling of small areas , whereas small-scale maps of offshore areas reflect the much lower sampling density possible is such areas . |
| 13 | Classroom talk , despite the apparent conversational liveliness of many classrooms , could be shown on closer examination to be somewhat impoverished and unchallenging , with a general tendency to discourage children from asking their own questions and thinking things out for themselves , and a lack of informative feedback . |
| 14 | They allow us furthermore to describe not the great history which would carry along all the sciences in a single trajectory , but the types of history — that is to say , of retentivity and transformation — which characterize different discourses … the episteme is not a slice of history common to all the sciences : it is a simultaneous play of specific remanences . |
| 15 | In the circumstances of the rapid impoverishment of most people and the simultaneous existence of political freedoms , the revival of communist and socialist movements and parties as a legal opposition to the existing regime was inevitable . |
| 16 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 17 | An array of medieval and Renaissance furniture , English paintings and portraits , English silver , French wallpaper , the extraordinarily rich assemblage of sixteenth-century paintings , both ‘ official ’ art of the Salons and the Impressionists . |
| 18 | They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse . |
| 19 | Two old Rolling Thunderites are getting it together to house mini ramps of varying sizes inside a place off Old Street . |
| 20 | So he 's saying , it 's a kind of complete kind of lateral thinking . |
| 21 | It is therefore still important to examine the role of Ac-ASA in any in vitro experiment desiend to test the mechanism of action of 5-ASA and to bear in mind the differential absorption of these drugs when an intact cell system is used . |
| 22 | The major research instrument used will be a detailed interview survey of approximately fifty matched pairs of small firms making similar products , drawn from five peripheral regions and matched with the non-assisted area — East Anglia . |
| 23 | They sent matched pairs of simulated curriculum vitaes — one bearing an English name and one an Asian name — in response to 23 advertisements for senior house officer posts . |
| 24 | Butler ( 1974 ) used groups of older people specifically for developing individual life histories , and using the sharing of these in a therapeutic group setting . |
| 25 | But not , as the blinkered writer of that article implied , necessarily her own independent choice . |
| 26 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
| 27 | In the sixteenth century the word ‘ empire ’ did not usually refer to a state with transoceanic possessions of this sort . |
| 28 | Aunt Molly is dressed in an overstuffed pouch of white feathers , with yellow leggings , plastic claws tied around each high-heeled slipper , and a red coxcomb wobbling on her head . |
| 29 | Clinical ecology is one of the more controversial forms of alternative medicine . |
| 30 | North America provides , of course , the most striking instance of European settlement on a grand scale . |