Possessives

• year: Mr Todd: Number 1 - To stop a repeat of last year's fiasco; no more animals are allowed on site.

Converse of object

• avoid: Her husband, knowing she could not play, shut the piano to avoid a fiasco.

• follow: Centrale Stop, in Tamworth Road opened on 10th December 2005 following a major fiasco over the finances.

• become: The West Coast Mainline has become the biggest fiasco in the short history of rail privatization.

• see: I was one of the crowd who saw this famous fiasco.

• have: But sadly he had a major plumbing fiasco, where pipes cracked and flooded his house.

Adjective modifier

• foreign: The Mail reports that the civil servants responsible for the Home Office foreign prisoners fiasco will keep their jobs ( Times, p.4 ).

• whole: Finally we took the message into the closing session of the whole fiasco.

• recent: The recent fiasco around weapons of mass destruction springs to mind.

• complete: This whole Transco thing seems to be a complete fiasco.

• total: However Carmen was not the total fiasco some writers have inferred.

• late: Conservatives have laid the blame for the latest tax credits fiasco firmly at the door of Chancellor Gordon Brown.

Noun used with modifier

• A-level: How to do good and have fun Young people caught in this summer's A-level fiasco may decide to take a last-minute gap year.

• immigration: Check back next week for part II of the whole immigration fiasco.

• prisoner: Although the prisoner fiasco may have ended those hopes, he would be seen as a credible candidate for Deputy Prime Minister.

• exam: Witness the exams fiasco last year where at least Estelle Morris had the courage to stand aside.

• election: The Middlesex election fiasco led to further problems for the ministry.