Example sentences of "putting on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priest saw a boy of astonishing personal beauty , with a mop of silvery-blond curls , standing on the cart-tail , putting on a sleeveless coat of scarlet velvet . |
| 2 | Still in Brussels , until 23 May the Eric van de Weghe gallery , which has close ties with Sonnabend and Miller of New York and Waddington 's in London , is putting on a major retrospective devoted to the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat . |
| 3 | Sacheverell Sitwell , a young aesthete from England , had crossed the Channel to look at the new painting in post-war Paris with a view to putting on a comprehensive exhibition in London . |
| 4 | To remove pet hair from soft furnishings and clothing , Mrs. L. Roy of East Sussex suggests putting on a dry rubber glove and rubbing your hand downwards over the fabric . |
| 5 | Trimdon Village WMC is putting on a super show with no cover charge on Tuesday March 31 with top comedian Bob Ritchie and award winning duo Inseparable . |
| 6 | A festival of traditional dancing and street theatre , there will be twenty countries from all over the world putting on a memorable display . |
| 7 | T is but your putting on a Spanish clock . |
| 8 | This is the southbound ‘ Master Cutler ’ with V2 60831 putting on a good exhaust in the early 1950's . |
| 9 | Mr Mellor was a great individualist , always putting on a good performance for the cameras , but he put himself before the Cabinet team . |
| 10 | We like putting on a good show . |
| 11 | Lots of popular fish , such as danios , are hardly ever stationary , putting on a good lively display if given the room to feel at home . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a cruel man , ’ she told him later , putting on a mournful face . |
| 13 | This would stop , say , Sears putting on a Prime Option Visa card its own store account numbers or numbers for other financial services that it offers through its Dean Witter subsidiary . |
| 14 | Remove the fitting and thoroughly clean up the two ends of pipe with wire wool , before smearing on flux and putting on a new fitting . |
| 15 | Balance sheet , quote for three thousand pounds to strip the existing roof covering , and basically well , they 're putting on a new roof . |
| 16 | The parent 's intention is often to protect so they hide tears and sorrowing putting on a ghastly pretence of cheerfulness . |
| 17 | At breakfast she found no difficulty in putting on a bright face , directing most of her attention to Matt , who , for some unknown reason , appeared to be in a gloomy mood , and who had little to say in response to her cheerful remarks . |
| 18 | ‘ Come on now , mind my beasts , ’ a drover would say , standing up among the Golds of the plaid in which he had spent the night and putting on a practised tone of wheedling grievance . |
| 19 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 20 | Not the same as putting on a big performance though is it ? |
| 21 | The boy was putting on a high-hab accent that a rich brat could understand . |
| 22 | He liked to buy their food ; he even enjoyed cooking it sometimes , and was putting on a little weight . |
| 23 | She is a little girl putting on a little girl act . |
| 24 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 25 | Hoskin 's chairman , Barry Hoar , is putting on a brave face and has told shareholders that ‘ your directors view the future with confidence . ’ |
| 26 | Marjorie and Bill were left to cope with their own personal loss while putting on a brave face for each other . |
| 27 | Wasps can only wish then that this weekend 's activities are as fruitful , the students putting on a brave show with two second-half tries from their dashing wing , Andy Parton , but Wasps — fielding only two of this season 's first-teamers — winning with something to spare thanks largely to the goal-kicking of Paddy Young . |
| 28 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 29 | Putting on a brave face for colleagues may also compound the feeling of inauthenticity or emptiness which they are experiencing in the classroom . |
| 30 | ‘ Barely audible , Kittykins , ’ Laura confided , putting on a brave show of a scarlet hat and a velvet coat stamped with heraldic signs in gold . |