Example sentences of "be speak by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 2 | However , the lyrics , some of which are spoken by a seven-year-old , are annoyingly political and can be as unbelievable as the band 's promotional literature . |
| 3 | Randolph Henry Ash had written a poem purporting to be spoken by a Digger in Putney . |
| 4 | Is there any distinction to be drawn between the words required to be spoken by a constable ( a ) acting pursuant to section 7(3) of the Act and ( b ) acting pursuant to section 8(2) thereof , after the suspect has been told , in the latter case , of his right to claim that the breath specimen taken from him should be replaced by a blood or urine specimen ? |
| 5 | Words in narrative form are hardly suited to choral use , though they can occasionally find their place in some kind of chanting , or may be spoken by a narrator or part of a choir . |
| 6 | THE VERY first line of Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? - ‘ What a dump ! ’ — is spoken by the play 's feminine protagonist in a parody of the classic Bette Davis manner : an ( imaginary ) cigarette held imperiously at eye-level , eyes blazing like the headlamps of an automobile , bee-sting lips enunciating each word ( including the ‘ a ’ ) for absolutely maximum effect , almost as if they had been snipped out of a newspaper headline by a writer of anonymous letters . |
| 7 | The whole of this passage is spoken by the Wanderer , except for the last lines where the The Solitary ( called the Sceptic because he reads Voltaire ) answers back . |
| 8 | Rumanian is spoken by the peasants , and servants . ’ |
| 9 | Dominica is one of the Eastern Caribbean islands where a French Creole is spoken by the older generation . |
| 10 | Dalphinis ( 1991 : 9 ) notes : Creole is spoken by the older generation , among themselves and is also used to the younger generation . |
| 11 | I knew that Quechua , the lineal descendant of the Inca language , was spoken by the majority of the Peruvian Indians and told him that in the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland there were similar tensions . |