Example sentences of "let [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | BEER tipped on a member of the audience is not everyone 's idea of art , let alone a joke . |
| 4 | It is difficult enough for an individual to be consistent , let alone a society . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Britain in mid-1979 was unlikely to lurch into any drastic transformation , let alone a dictatorship . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As though in wonder that any virus , let alone a foreign one , would dare to get up the royal hooter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Few of Zero One 's subjects have access to independent information on Western Europe , let alone a passport . |
| 11 | You 'd have trouble swinging a gerbil , let alone a cat , in the kitchen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would be distressed to hear of any ladies reading it , let alone a girl of your tender years and experience . |
| 15 | She was not brought up to be a major figure in political life , let alone a ruler . |
| 16 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |
| 17 | Michael Brunson tried a rude personal question , but by the time it had been translated into official interviewese — ‘ Would you accept that there are worries about your being in Downing Street ? ’ — it hardly sounded like a question , let alone a rude question . |
| 18 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals was only formed two years ago and it has not yet become familiar within the business , let alone a household name . |
| 19 | There was no atmosphere of narrow morality in the house — scarcely any evidence of mental activity at all , let alone a moral climate — but on the wall of the living-room was a pictorial chart of ‘ The Ascent to Heaven and the Descent to Hell ’ , snakes-and-ladders style , and on either side of the entrance to the everlasting bonfire were the figures of Venus and Bacchus , the whole chart a vulgar allegory to set beside that Bedfordshire classic , The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 20 | He was fourteen years older than Jeanne , barely able to support himself , let alone a wife , a weakling unfit for army service , a bohemian , a drunk and , worst of all , a Jew . |
| 21 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 22 | Initially I wanted to be in Kabul should there be an offensive , then reality began setting in and I could see that they were n't going to take a village , let alone a capital . ’ |
| 23 | There is not even a postcard to buy , let alone a stamp . |
| 24 | Besides confusing the reformist Labour government in A Very British Coup with a revolutionary one , he denies the central claim of the programme — that a reformist ( let alone a revolutionary ) government would be suppressed — and hence avoids discussion of the important questions this raises about the British system of parliamentary democracy . |
| 25 | He 's incapable of throttling a cat , let alone a woman . |
| 26 | I could n't organise a piss-up in a brewery let alone a burglary . |
| 27 | Within the NEB it was clear that a regional — let alone a city — dimension was never to play a very important role in determining policy . |
| 28 | It is n't fit for a latrine , let alone a resting place for the dead . |
| 29 | Thus collectors can get back to the sound of the original master-tape far more closely than would be possible with any 1955 disc , let alone a forgery of one . |
| 30 | Deep carpet covered the floors and the stairs swept up to the showrooms and the warren of workrooms beyond , and though the window drapes and furnishings were ever-so-slightly faded , as if they had seen better days , they were of the finest silks and velvets and every corner was swept , polished and cleaned daily so that no single speck of dust , let alone a cobweb , dared show itself . |