Example sentences of "worn by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IDITAROD SUPERBOOT is the boot for serious outdoor pursuits — they 're worn by the mushers in the Iditarod sled race . |
| 2 | It was a similar medallion to those worn by the Fellowship in Victorian London . |
| 3 | Taken to France by James II on his flight , it was later worn by the Cardinal Duke of York on his mitre before coming home again to Queen Victoria by way of George IV . |
| 4 | She was making serwal — pantaloons , the jodhpur-like underpants worn by the women and children which tie at the waist , fasten at the ankle and are loose , cool and comfortable . |
| 5 | They were real grown-up long trousers exactly like those worn by the boys at the big school . |
| 6 | The pale yellowy-white colour and vertical lines of their helmets resemble the boar tusk helmets worn by the Mycenaeans ( although the depiction is not canonical , the cut boar tusks being in one single row rather than the two or more rows known from Greece ) . |
| 7 | His clothes , originally worn by Lauren Bacall , Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe , were given a great boost recently when worn by the likes of Madonna and Deee-Lite . |
| 8 | Worn by the likes of Seal , Naomi Campbell and Lenny Kravitz , it uses precious stones , silver and gold in a tasteful way . |
| 9 | Here are minutely detailed drawings of ‘ An ostensory of gold designed by Algardi … in ye church called ye Chiesa Nuovo belonging to ye Fathers of ye Oratory of St Philip Neri in Rome ’ ; of ‘ The crown wherwith [ sic ] Alexander first duke of Florence was crowned by ye hands of Pope Pius V at Rome ; of ‘ The Corna , or the crown worn by the Doge of Venice , kept in the Great Treasury of St Mark ’ , and many more numinous and valuable objects , now vanished . |
| 10 | It was identical to the one worn by the man in the photo she had back at the hotel . |
| 11 | Full academic robes will be worn by the students at the Higher Awards Ceremony which will be held in the college hall in Cleveland Avenue tomorrow . |
| 12 | The Latin moustache is the kind worn by the lounge lizard in the movies . |
| 13 | Two views of Spitfire Vc JK808 , the identity now worn by the Spitfire on show in Belgrade . |
| 14 | A selection of hats worn by the widow of the disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell , are to go on sale tomorrow . |
| 15 | A selection of hats worn by the widow of the disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell , are to go on sale tomorrow . |
| 16 | A great deal of time and thought had gone into the varied and colourful array of costumes worn by the contestants , and into their entertainingly apposite choice of titles ; everybody , however , agreed that ‘ Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally ’ , who had travelled all the way from Norfolk , were the worthy winners . |
| 17 | Criticism has concentrated on the removal of the red coat worn by the Master of Ceremonies , which was shown to have a different binding agent in its pigment to the rest of the canvas and therefore considered not to be part of Veronese 's composition . |
| 18 | All the teams taking part in the display programme showed exceptional versatility in costume colour and design , from the ‘ baseball team ’ look of the Teens in brilliant white sports suits , with crimson anklewarmers and belts , and using crimson balls to match , to the elegant handkerchiefpoint pink shaded skirts over navy leotards worn by the Essex team . |
| 19 | Today the only traditional costumes to be seen are those worn by the flower-sellers and folk dancers . |
| 20 | Today JR will turn up at the Borders roads committee meeting in a Pringle of Scotland creation , complete with Saltire design , as worn by the golfer Colin Montgomerie at last year 's Scottish Open . |
| 21 | EVEN Joseph 's amazing technicolour dreamcoat is not a patch on some of the jerseys now being worn by the country 's leading goalkeepers . |
| 22 | The Gnomes were very interested in this ; as Flaherty said , you could not know too much about these things , although it was a pig 's pity that such a jewel could n't be worn by the King of the day when he went about his reigning , because was n't that the purpose of crowns and jewels anyway ? |
| 23 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 24 | The Gorgoneion ( Gorgon-face ) , adapted from eastern models , appears in Greek art in the mid seventh century and long retains this generalised protective role.24 From the start , however , it is also associated with a particular story : the head of Medusa , cut off by Perseus with Athena 's help , and thereafter worn by the goddess on her aegis . |
| 25 | Similar torcs were worn by the deities , like those represented on the Gundestrup cauldron ( fig. 30 ) , and it is possible that they may have been used to dress wooden idols . |
| 26 | Mail hauberk of the kind worn by the crusaders in Richard 's time . |
| 27 | Skinhead suits were much like those worn by the mods . |
| 28 | This is the dress worn by the priest on the Harvesters ' Vase . |
| 29 | Helmets of the kind worn by the men who marched to the Holy Land with Richard . |
| 30 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |