Example sentences of "[noun] hang [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says the 38-year old bachelor hangs a three-foot brass and crystal ‘ pod ’ over his bed to ‘ cleanse and heal the soul ’ . |
| 2 | In the hall hung the amputated blade of an oar : inscribed in gold lettering on its black scoop were the names of a college eight , each of whom had been awarded such a trophy in sun-ridden pre-war days ; the item seemed impossibly exotic . |
| 3 | Along each side of the long window hung a heavy brocade curtain , the colour having long since disappeared , but which still retained an air of quality . |
| 4 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 5 | They emerged into the sharp , clean cold of the open air , and overhead hung a crumpled ribbon of stars . |
| 6 | On their sitting-room wall hangs a big calendar illustrated by glossy colour photographs of Mr Deng 's visit to southern China in early 1992 — the pilgrimage that relaunched radical economic reform in China . |
| 7 | On one wall hung a large picture of a classical , mythological nature : on another wall was an equally large picture of undulating pale yellow and beige lines . |
| 8 | In the black and charred trees hung a macabre array of jeans . |
| 9 | The tocsin bell was balanced on an iron ring and from its great brass tongue hung a long piece of cord . |
| 10 | The images , the icons , are simply so many symbols ; so may pegs to hang the spiritual ideas upon . |
| 11 | Amongst all this apparent severity hangs the upper arête of Chequer 's Buttress , a gauntlet thrown from the crack that just cries out to be taken up . |
| 12 | About these polarities hang the varying states of consciousness that can and do arise ( see Chapter ii ) . |
| 13 | As it is , Sun remains the only major player to snub the box , yet X terminals leader NCD hangs a significant share of its machines on Sun sites or on heterogeneous systems involving Suns , while rivals HP has no problem with selling combinations of workstations and X-terminals for a considerable price-per-seat advantage . |
| 14 | Such developments keep Johnson and Boswell at a further remove , although on the wall of the castle hangs a framed letter in which Johnson , with his attractive spidery writing , gives thanks to his host : ‘ The kind treatment which I have found wherever I go makes me leave with some heaviness of heart an island I am not likely to see again … |