Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [art] rage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhibitions were all the rage at that time , and not just for the artistic elite of the big cities to the south , much to JTR 's misgivings , obviously . |
| 2 | Taboos were being broken , cheap holidays abroad were all the rage , for , as everybody was taught at school , ‘ travelling broadens the mind ’ . |
| 3 | At one time plastic boots were all the rage for summer climbing in the Alps and winter mountain walking in Scotland . |
| 4 | Stage effects were all the rage : listen to the clumping of the giants on the original black discs of Rheingold . ’ |
| 5 | When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932 , housewives ' shopping clubs were all the rage . |
| 6 | Hans Weber , a frail , piercingly blue-eyed Swiss , had been a sea-captain here in the early 1900s specializing in smuggling Bird of Paradise feathers back to Europe when they were all the rage for ladies ' hats . |
| 7 | It 's much like the ‘ proper ’ animators flicking the acetates like one of those flick books that were all the rage a few years ago ( or the ‘ What the Butler Saw ’ machines at the end of the pier ) to see how the work has progressed . |
| 8 | And not nearly as much as we used to get back in the good old days , when alien abductions were all the rage . |
| 9 | There was a humble house here in the 1600s , rented by the rising Gauntlett family who made their money in clay pipes when tobacco was all the rage . |
| 10 | Sometimes in a display of the new ‘ simultaneity ’ that was all the rage , there would be a combined performance of art , poetry reading and music of high quality with a fashionable , well-dressed crowd mingling with the artists . |
| 11 | Fracastorius , in whose poem Syphilis , the shepherd , was cured by guaiacum , endorsed the product and it was all the rage until Von Hutten died at the age of 35 of late syphilis in spite of his alleged cure . |
| 12 | By the eighteenth century his fascinating contortion of viewing the English landscape was all the rage . |
| 13 | In the cellars , absinthe was all the rage , one sip and you felt as though your head would come off . |
| 14 | TENBY was all the rage yesterday for the Derby down to 8-1 . |
| 15 | Financial engineering was all the rage . |
| 16 | Marxism was all the rage . |
| 17 | ‘ She said it was all the rage at her school , and she 'd got an A minus for her essay on it . |
| 18 | And in the in the sixties and seventies it was all the rage , but I 've got the feeling it had a |
| 19 | At break time we would all troop down to the village shop for a bottle of Garden 's lemonade of a bag of what was all the rage in those days , potato crisps . |
| 20 | Acid House was all the rage ; multi-rhythmed electronic stuff popular on the disco circuit but only comprehensible when taken with the designer drugs now supplied as openly as condoms in some of the smarter venues . |
| 21 | But er , it was all the rage in about forty-five , forty-six . |
| 22 | It was all the rage during the war ; it 's still looking pretty good 50 years on and now it 's for sale for £40 . |
| 23 | Mistinguett was drawing huge crowds at the FoliesBergeres ; the great Bernhardt , though aged and ailing , was still as seductive as ever , dividing her time between the theatre and her hospital for the wounded at the Odéon ; at the Opéra Comique Manon was all the rage , and in May , when the Germans were hammering their way on to Côte 304 , there was a glittering film premiere of Salammbô and once again the Spring Flower Show was reinstated in all its pre-war glory . |