Example sentences of "white [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also Indian or Pakistani , not black or white or a mixture . |
| 2 | The house , dazzlingly white where the afternoon sun touched it , stood with its shadowed back to me . |
| 3 | Tiny fields , green and white where the snow was melting again , led down to the outskirts of the town . |
| 4 | As she came closer he saw it was a scar , the scar tissue even more white than the skin around it . |
| 5 | White and a graduate student , Gen Suwa , amalgamated the talus ( ankle ) , metatarsal heads , and calcaneus ( heel ) of a 1–8 million-year-old foot from Homo habitis at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania — Lucy 's closest relative according to White — with large phalanges ( toes ) from Hadar , and the toe extremities of a chimpanzee . |
| 6 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 7 | Men , women and children of all ages , wept openly at the going of the blues , and the yellows , the white and the green and the orange , the last of the ‘ Standard Bogies ’ , the Cunarders , the ‘ Coronations ’ and the single-decker from Dalmuir . |
| 8 | The suite in the bathroom was white and the floor black-and-white tiles . |
| 9 | The box containing the figure 1 is white and the rest black with white figures . |
| 10 | Some of these clues have universal significance — weeping , blushing , turning white and the dilation of the pupils of our eyes all indicate various emotional states . |
| 11 | The white and the gold together shone in holy radiance , and even in the stilted emphasis of embroidery the angel was watchful in its fluttering , heaven-touched thread . |
| 12 | Visualise the air you breathe in as clean and white and the air you exhale as dark and black , which takes with it both the toxins of the body and the troubles of the mind . |
| 13 | One one of was white and the other was coloured . |
| 14 | Everyone , whatever their age or status , was encouraged to wear white and the church brimmed with the milky-white and creamy-gold froth of buttercups , meadowsweet and Queen Anne 's lace . |
| 15 | ‘ Both sorts , the white and the red . |
| 16 | The walls were white but the whiteness did n't look like paint . |
| 17 | They had , they have the plain white but the edging was more like it did n't match , it was a |
| 18 | However , if we do n't and we say we 're lily white but the prosecution solicitor , prosecution witnesses , are all bent , then we lose that shield and they can say , hey you 're not lily white , you 're bent as well . |
| 19 | The landscape he rode through was as white as a desert . |
| 20 | He went as white as a sheet and backed off immediately . |
| 21 | He was as white as a sheet . |
| 22 | Chrissie Stone looked out at them , and they could see that her face was as white as a sheet . |
| 23 | As Cowley walked towards the slightly hunched figure of Bodie , he was able to see Doyle 's peaceful face , eyes closed , white as a sheet ; a moment later the trolley was behind the closing doors of the lift , and Doyle 's life was now in the hands of others , men skilled in surgery , and in the ways of keeping the tenuous thread of life attached to a dying body . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're as white as a sheet and you 're shaking . |
| 25 | After Millie had flounced away to do her bidding , Aggie said , ‘ She came in that yard as white as a sheet . |
| 26 | She heard her father exclaim , " My soul to the Devil , she will not ! " which brought forth a gabble of Portuguese from the visitors that was too fast for Sara to understand but which turned Maria Candida as white as a sheet . |
| 27 | ‘ Goodbye ! ’ he said in a low , hollow voice , his face as white as a sheet . |
| 28 | ‘ You look as white as a sheet . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 're as white as a sheet , ’ he returned implacably . |
| 30 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |