Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and white [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 2 | The black and white film was taken by a shop security camera just 20 minutes before two bombs ripped through the town 's packed shopping centre on March 20 . |
| 3 | She sat there , her feet on tiptoe , just reaching the black and white floor , and gazed at the glazed bumps of the linen towel hanging from a hook on the back of the door , the little wash-basin shaped like a scallop shell , the black and white edging of the tiles above . |
| 4 | At the Point stood the black and white lighthouse and the coast guard station , silhouetted now , for dusk was falling fast and it had turned chilly . |
| 5 | ‘ When I see things like the series Confessional on TV I feel like a black person must have felt watching the Black and White Minstrel show . |
| 6 | She was lead singer in the Black and White Minstrel Show during the 70s . |
| 7 | She smiled at the black and white minstrel who approached her . |
| 8 | Especially at the grand-daddy of all ‘ funny black people ’ programmes , The Black And White Minstrel Show , which , at its all-singing , all-dancing , blackface-'n-white-gloved , eye-rolling , lip-smacking , ‘ Ol ’ Man River ’ — singing peak , drew an audience of 20 million . |
| 9 | And on the Light Programme there was The Black and White Minstrel Show , where Benny Elton and Ricky Mayall had got their big break ; The Archers , with Richard Burton and Joan Collins as Dan and Doris , saving the Ambridge enclave from gypsies and travellers ; Doctor Who , with Barry Humphries visiting Great Moments of British History ; The Muffin the Mule Hour … |
| 10 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 11 | Favourite haunts include Rainbow 's , the Black and White bar and Babylon 's , to name just a few . |
| 12 | The cliche is never more true than in the black and white morality of the technicolour red-blooded Western movie . |
| 13 | Looking down at the black and white collie which crouched at his feet , he added , ‘ It 'll be all right , will it , ti bring my own dog ? |
| 14 | Suddenly , the black and white collie raced on to the fairway at the Royal North Devon Golf Club , Westward Ho ! |
| 15 | Your duty tonight is not to wash up , but to allow the Master to slaughter you on the black and white field — unless you play a game as wicked as Papa 's — in which case you may finish off what the Africans began on me ! ’ |
| 16 | The second is that children who are used to watching Going Live are not likely to be enthralled by the Black and White Minister Show . |
| 17 | The film 's musical score and song and dance numbers are surprisingly its weakest ingredient , though the shooting and editing of Earth Girls Are Easy is often highly original-especially the black and white dream sequence that 's a model of its kind and almost a music video in itself . |
| 18 | ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent . |
| 19 | While quartz gives grey and white interference colours , the bright colours of Plate 6.1b are produced by an amphibole mineral ( pale colour to yellow to red ) and the black and white stripey pattern by the feldspar mineral plagioclase . |
| 20 | Apart from this summit meeting of minds there will also be the chance for other boffins of the black and white board to take on past champion John Hegarty , who is challenging all comers . |
| 21 | But today he was only doodling in the margin , leaving the black and white diagram empty . |
| 22 | Baby loves her rustic life , another letter continued to the black and white sister in Caen : she 's grown into a fine healthy creature . |
| 23 | Annie Templeman had been at the black and white ball for five minutes , and it was five minutes too long . |
| 24 | The black and white cow , on the highest crest of the round ridge , |
| 25 | Broadcasting 's first open discussion of homosexuality crackled through the black and white fog of our TV sets in 1954 . |
| 26 | Maid Of Money , 12-1 , will also go for the Gold Cup but they are likely to meet again in the Black and White Gold Cup at Leopardstown . |
| 27 | On the stairways Geoff has repeated the black and white theme of the bathroom . |
| 28 | She grew weary of the everyday whiteness of her home and the black and white uniform of her colony . |
| 29 | The VCR also converts the colour coding system from NTSC to PAL , by changing the frequency at which the colour information is carried piggyback on the black and white information . |
| 30 | Dusting off the black and white label Lagerfeld made the double ‘ C ’ button the gilt security symbol of the Eighties over-achievers . |