Example sentences of "[be] such [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 2 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
| 3 | There has been such a growth in direct dealing that fish is only getting sent to Billingsgate when no one else wants it . ’ |
| 4 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher has been such a figure and , in spite of reverses , she has animated and directed governments with a sense of political direction . |
| 6 | But Cooper was unfortunate to appear before the disciplinary committee at a time when it was under increasing pressure to eradicate the high , late tackle that has been such a scar on the game this season . |
| 7 | The Democratic Party chairman , Mr Ron Brown , said that ‘ there has not been such a decision so out of touch with American values since the sale of arms to the Ayatollah . |
| 8 | It could have been such a futile act . |
| 9 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 10 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 11 | I felt so proud of my father for having been such a fine craftsman . |
| 12 | There had never been such a period before , of such security and stability . |
| 13 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 14 | There had never been such a literary success in England . |
| 15 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ This has been such a dreadful shock for the community . |
| 17 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 18 | By contrast Celtic had a goal in hand for much of the match and put together many passages of the passing game which has been such a feature of recent matches . |
| 19 | There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey . |
| 20 | This popular hotel has been such a success with Club 18–30 that we 're delighted to feature it again as our Club Choice for summer ‘ 90 . |
| 21 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 22 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 23 | Never before had there been such a team put out by any club . ’ |
| 24 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 25 | I saw that notebook again many winters later , and suddenly realised why that first sighting of ‘ Fred ’ had been such a disappointment . |
| 26 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 27 | In practice , however , progression has been difficult to achieve , and the rites of passage that have been such a feature of our educational organisation — at 11 plus , at the options stage at 14 , and again at 16 — have compounded the problem . |
| 28 | It was probably the reason that the young Julie had been such a complete tomboy . |
| 29 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 30 | Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way . |