Example sentences of "[noun sg] be tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 2 | All the drama of this tragedy is told in a book that is always interesting , and which is exceptionally well illustrated . |
| 3 | One parent was told by a consultant , ‘ We all have to go sometime , ’ after her 16-year-old son had just died of leukaemia . |
| 4 | The Committee was told of a backlog of maintenance . |
| 5 | More than 70 delegates at the Edinburgh conference were told about the dumping of unsafe products on emerging eastern European democracies . |
| 6 | In the Board 's view it is not open to the plaintiff on these pleadings to allege that Mr. Brant would have agreed to the plaintiff being told of the offer for Vertigo . |
| 7 | In Mordauntt v. British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. ( 1910 K.B. ) the seller was told of the sub-sale by the buyer only after it had been made . |
| 8 | The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly . |
| 9 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 10 | Can the history of contemporary American art be told in the form of a museum exhibition without reference to land art , film , performance and other less tangible art forms ? |
| 11 | An interim order ( and thus its freezing effect ) lasts until 28 days after the court is told of the report of the creditors ' meeting referred to below . |
| 12 | The distance is told by the rate of the dance ; the direction by the angle of the centre part of the dance , during which the dancer wags her abdomen : the angle of this part of the dance relative to the vertical is the angle of the food source relative to the sun . |
| 13 | The court was told of a catalogue of filthy practises in the kitchen , but one of the owners says he 's been harshly treated |
| 14 | A jury at Bristol crown court was told of an insurance policy paying six thousands pounds a year until their children grew up . |
| 15 | As an illustration of how it can occur , the field-worker was told of an incident in which a driver was asked to stop for failing to wear a seat-belt , upon which he sped off , necessitating a car chase , which eventually ended with two cars being wrecked and a policeman injured . |
| 16 | Regional organiser at the General and Municipal Boilermakers ' Union Derek Cattell said : ‘ The workforce were told of the closure by managing director Tony Jowett . |
| 17 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 18 | Flavia stuck to her guns and when she turned up next morning was told by the Loulou boys that she did n't know one wind from the other . |
| 19 | A MAN who adored his pet dog was told by a nurse : ‘ I 've run it over . ’ |
| 20 | But his daughter was told by the assistant , ‘ We do n't accept pensioners . |
| 21 | The story of how the convalescent David Stirling got his proposal into the hands of General Auchinleck was told to the journalist Virginia Cowles in 1958 , and is based on Stirling 's memory of events not too long after they occurred . |
| 22 | A story is told of a water bull who valiantly fought an Each-Uisge to the death in order to save the life of a servant girl who tended the needs of fairy cattle . |
| 23 | One story is told of a man who saw a leprechaun bury a purse of gold in a field of ragwort . |
| 24 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 25 | A wonderful story is told of a concert programme that was prepared using desktop publishing by a fairly well-known organisation . |
| 26 | A classic story is told about the unveiling of a vast poster showing a dish piled high with baked beans . |
| 27 | The story is told in a book about the Rassendyll family history . |
| 28 | The difference with this book is that the story is told from the groundcrew 's side of things . |
| 29 | History is told throughout the town — Greek amphitheatre , Roman arcading and a ruinous odeon , moorish detailing on the lintels of palazzi , medieval castles and baroque churches . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |