Example sentences of "who have [art] misfortune " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked directly under the Manager , Signor Cavatorta , who was very able and extremely diplomatic with his customers , and I learnt how indifferent and merciless all banks are towards any customer who has the misfortune to be in debt : that was more or less all . |
| 2 | Unlike Glenn Gould — in many matters one of Karajan 's great soul-mates — Karajan did not abandon the concert-giving habit ; but , like Gould , he did unashamedly embrace recording technology to the full , the first conductor to do so in the wake of Stokowski , that would-be musico-technological pioneer who had the misfortune to be born thirty years too soon . |
| 3 | Most of us know someone who had the misfortune to suffer a bad car crash , or a heart attack , or a breakdown . |
| 4 | The rooms had ancient crusty mouldings and an iron-handled bell-pull for calling servants from the basement , now inhabited by Thin Lizzy 's road manager , a man who had the misfortune , so Eva informed me , to have hair growing out of his shoulders . |
| 5 | Prop Paul Szabo , who had done so well against New Zealand in Lille when Jackart was injured , was on hand for the opening match with Alberta along with flanker Bruce Breen , who had the misfortune to break a bone in his wrist . |
| 6 | The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) . |
| 7 | By the door was a ghastly troll 's face , in yellow glass , much adored by Lakey and much feared by anyone else who had the misfortune to let their gaze fall upon it . |
| 8 | So , too , do those people in towns who have the misfortune to live near the wrong warehouse . |
| 9 | Folklorists attribute various behaviours to Black Dogs ; most usually , those who have the misfortune of seeing one will die in the coming year . |
| 10 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |