Example sentences of "hang [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the early seventeenth century , despite the central government 's efforts to attenuate , curb or eliminate the worst abuses ( to the extent of publicly hanging the first Governor of Siberia , M.P . |
| 2 | After the dislodgement by French forces of agitators who had hanged the Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews from the walls of St Andrews castle and then sustained a protracted siege , Knox served a term in the French galleys until released by the intervention of Edward VI of England , to whom he became a royal chaplain . |
| 3 | This last was named because he had hung the green flag of the Irish Free State and also the red flag of Russia in the church , but a band of reactionary students from Cambridge tore them down , and eventually they were condemned as illegal by a consistory court . |
| 4 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 5 | Amongst all this apparent severity hangs the upper arête of Chequer 's Buttress , a gauntlet thrown from the crack that just cries out to be taken up . |
| 6 | About these polarities hang the varying states of consciousness that can and do arise ( see Chapter ii ) . |
| 7 | It covers the upper part of the body and consists of bands of semicircular scales all pointing upwards , ending at the lower edge in a belt from which hangs a broad piece of pleated cloth . |
| 8 | In the second , The Holburne of Menstrie Museum ( in Great Pulteney Street ) , hangs a fine collection of Gainsboroughs in rooms furnished with period pieces , silver and porcelain . |
| 9 | As it is , Sun remains the only major player to snub the box , yet X terminals leader NCD hangs a significant share of its machines on Sun sites or on heterogeneous systems involving Suns , while rivals HP has no problem with selling combinations of workstations and X-terminals for a considerable price-per-seat advantage . |
| 10 | And yet about him there hung the indefinable air of ugliness . |
| 11 | In the hall hung the amputated blade of an oar : inscribed in gold lettering on its black scoop were the names of a college eight , each of whom had been awarded such a trophy in sun-ridden pre-war days ; the item seemed impossibly exotic . |
| 12 | It did n't had n't got they did n't have four posts at this time , they hung the top part of the bed , literally hung it from cords wrapped round rafters . |
| 13 | The tocsin bell was balanced on an iron ring and from its great brass tongue hung a long piece of cord . |
| 14 | In the black and charred trees hung a macabre array of jeans . |
| 15 | Mrs Zamzam looked up to the wall of the room where there hung a framed portrait of a young man and woman . |
| 16 | They emerged into the sharp , clean cold of the open air , and overhead hung a crumpled ribbon of stars . |
| 17 | On one wall hung a large picture of a classical , mythological nature : on another wall was an equally large picture of undulating pale yellow and beige lines . |
| 18 | He preferred life at court to the hardships of campaigning ; he liked to deck himself in strings of precious stones and belts studded with priceless gems ; he wore clothes of the finest silk and from each ear lobe he hung a single pearl of remarkable size . |