Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sky sort of turns grey and then whitey-blue and then in the end it 's daytime and it 's all sunny . |
| 2 | It was difficult to imagine she had bought the dress on purpose , had one fine day long past gone into a shop and tried on dress after dress and , finally , taking this grey and unbecoming tube of cloth from a rack laden with many-coloured garments , slipped it over her head , examined herself fore and aft in the changing cubicle mirror , smiled with pleasure , clapped her hands in approval and said to herself : ‘ This is lovely , this is the very thing , ’ while a curled , perfumed salesgirl hovered , saying : ‘ But it 's perfectly you , madam . ’ |
| 3 | In any event , the character of strictures differs dramatically between those occurring early and late in the course of the colitis . |
| 4 | It is more helpful to meet real people who have come to terms with their lives , than to wander around lost and alone in a maze of fantasies . |
| 5 | Both dishes may taste scrumptious and once in a while wo n't do you any harm , but foods like that eaten regularly are no basis for a healthy diet . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents . |
| 7 | The domes are not hemispherical but spheroidal in shape and are elongated towards the top ; the pendentives are also elongated and more in the form of squinches . |
| 8 | It has always been quite large-framed and long in the body . |
| 9 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 10 | The distribution of their later stone parish churches may give some indication of their more profitable achievements ; they are most numerous and closest in the area north and west of Arundel , with a scatter round Worth and rather more diffuse in the area of the Haestingas , whose forest ridge was less well served by an island river system . |
| 11 | The audience , too , was painfully hungry and yet in the presence of food which was not apparently destined for their stomachs ; this made them feel weak and peevish . |
| 12 | Fergus , lying sleepless and alone in the Prison of Hostages , could still feel the pain and the bewilderment , and the terrible knowledge that he , who loved Ireland beyond measure , had been a part of her doom . |
| 13 | The most interesting thing for me was walking alone and quietly in the forest and listening to the birds singing , watching them make their nest and feed their chicks . |
| 14 | ‘ Pamela is small-boned and straight in the body with narrow hips , ’ said Jane . |
| 15 | Surrealism 's often alarming tentacles reached far and deep in the history of modern painting , but nowhere was its influence more multiculturated than in the art of Wifredo Lam . |
| 16 | Yet , despite an increase of spending on health in the UK from 3¼ per cent of national income in 1948 to over 6 per cent ( of a much larger national income ) forty years later , it is alleged that the NHS is underfunded and periodically in a state of near collapse . |
| 17 | Then she saw that the verandah doors were open and inside in the shade on two wicker-chairs , talking earnestly to one another , were Rosette and Andrée . |
| 18 | But in spite of not having enough money , Sussex is still active and perhaps in the forefront of the scientific research . |
| 19 | The eighty-one plates still extant and now in the possession of the museum of Raleigh in North Carolina , were acquired during the eighteenth century by the French amateur engraver Claude-Henri Watelet who in turn sold them to Pierre-François Basan . |