Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been asleep a long time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been asleep a few hours . ’ |
| 3 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the December inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher intervened and said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 4 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 5 | You are due the grateful thanks of the entire Catholic Community which , as you know , is very appreciative of their priests . |
| 6 | Though the weapons and equipment are constantly modernised ( the Micks got the new design of helmets two years ago , the new rifles last year , and we are due the new webbing next year ) , Napoleon 's generals would still have recognised the discipline and aggression , as would the Kaiser 's , and Hitler 's . |
| 7 | Nor would the expedition have been possible the next winter . |
| 8 | I am sorry The Mozartean Players omit the repeat in the first movement of K542 , which is one of Mozart 's best Trios ' especially since there is plenty of room for it on the disc . |
| 9 | The world is unified at the ideal level , but the physical manifestations of the vertebrate archetype are each a distinct product of the Creator 's will . |
| 10 | Newquay , Polperro , Historic Plymouth and Dartmoor are each an easy half day out . |
| 11 | They are clear the best for their children requires small classes , new science blocks , well-equipped laboratories , teachers who are properly rewarded . |
| 12 | Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference . |
| 13 | ‘ There are half a million soldiers out here , ’ she explained , ‘ and cold , wet and hungry they all look alike . ’ |
| 14 | There are half a dozen songs tonight that have n't been released , and they 're all worth their stuff ; a bonkers instrumental after the Grateful Dead called ‘ Swashbuckler ’ , a flaming flamenco exercise ( ‘ Callin'-All ’ ) and a yearning epic sung by John that took the wired-up angsty quality of The Boys ' ‘ First Time ’ and put in some of Roy Orbison 's operatic noodlings for good measure . |
| 15 | ‘ In fact , there are half a dozen good Brits out there . |
| 16 | But for every example of an imaginative triumph over adversity — Roderigo 's ill-fated attempt to murder Cassio was staged in a bath-house for want of the necessary costumes — there are half a dozen examples of night scenes clearly shot in broad daylight , choppy scene transitions , and poorly recorded dialogue that drains Shakespeare 's lines of much of their beauty and meaning . |
| 17 | This makes one coherent line of argument , where at present there are half a dozen . |
| 18 | There are half a dozen about the place — I could find them . |
| 19 | There are half a dozen bows drawn on you If we fight , you will be the first to die . ’ |
| 20 | If we had n't made this tractor there are half a dozen other products we could have tried |
| 21 | I am afraid the latter-day Pop artists think of themselves as being a culmination of the expression of cultural realism and they regard what happened in the Sixties as a primitive expression of their more developed ideas , which seems to me far from the truth . |
| 22 | I am afraid the above formulae are wrong because our new solenoids do n't look the same as the old one . |
| 23 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 24 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 25 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 26 | Her dark blonde hair was cut into a short , feathery style , which had been popular a few years ago . |
| 27 | The BFI has long been overdue a public trial and major clear-out with several pretentious posteriors needing kicking out of its West End headquarters . |
| 28 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 29 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 30 | I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister . |