Example sentences of "let [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night someone let all the horses out of his livery stable so you can imagine the state he was in when he rang . ’ |
| 2 | Note that if you take Kugelbaum 's football and let all the pentagons expand at the same rate and at the expense of the Ts until every T has shrunk to a point you will be left with a regular dodecahedron , having 12 pentagonal faces . |
| 3 | One speaker said : ‘ Let all the Serb chauvinists go to Serbia and let the Croat chauvinists go to Croatia . |
| 4 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 5 | Let all the others abandon their norm ; you stay clearheaded . |
| 6 | Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing |
| 7 | Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing |
| 8 | And when ye would set out for Castille , let all the people know in secret , that they make themselves ready , and take with them all that they have , so that none of the Moors in the suburb may know thereof ; for certes ye can not keep the city , neither abide therein after my death . |
| 9 | Rupture-discs , however , simply open and let all the pressure escape . |
| 10 | ‘ If we let all the chemicals from a coffee farm get into a river we will have a cumulative problem . ’ |
| 11 | Let all the damn horses out — I 've spent all morning going round the lanes rounding the brutes up again ! ‘ |
| 12 | Let all the well-heeled English pooh-pooh it as they may , he knew that pounds , shillings and pence bought warmth , desirable goods and security and he wanted that for himself , for his family and , as time went on , for an ever-increasing host of dependants . |
| 13 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Let all the hell hounds come from Satan 's dark abyss ! |
| 15 | What , and let all the cold in ? |
| 16 | I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh , I always remember when when erm when the first houses , when we lived , when I lived with me mother , and in that house we lived in was a big estate erm near us and erm ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there and , I do n't know who it was , somebody wanted a place , could n't get anywhere and my mother went up there with you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said , nearly everybody on that estate 's Welsh ourselves . |
| 17 | Still , do you think you better bleed it completely and let all the water out ? |
| 18 | A new hairstyle is enough to give you a new lease of life but there are n't many of us who can afford to go to the hairdressers every week — let alone every day . |
| 19 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 20 | BEER tipped on a member of the audience is not everyone 's idea of art , let alone a joke . |
| 21 | It is difficult enough for an individual to be consistent , let alone a society . |
| 22 | In the present state of our knowledge of provincial life during the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods , no precise scale can as yet be drawn up on any single topic , let alone a general model that encompasses and balances all factors . |
| 23 | Britain in mid-1979 was unlikely to lurch into any drastic transformation , let alone a dictatorship . |
| 24 | It is easy to say that the time spent considering the Matisse is time better spent than that spent considering a Gerasimov , let alone a Bouguereau . |
| 25 | As though in wonder that any virus , let alone a foreign one , would dare to get up the royal hooter . |
| 26 | In Germany in 1939 , a British Gentile , let alone a Jew , knew what to expect of the Nazi authorities and got out if they could . |
| 27 | Few of Zero One 's subjects have access to independent information on Western Europe , let alone a passport . |
| 28 | You 'd have trouble swinging a gerbil , let alone a cat , in the kitchen . |
| 29 | Indeed , we would assert most emphatically that there is nothing within the stories themselves to explain any change in the divine response , let alone a change as complete and as dramatic as the two series report . |
| 30 | So cold was the Cold War that America had been boycotting the import even of Soviet crab meat , let alone a live and wily Soviet leader . |