Example sentences of "hang in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two brothers aged 20 and 24 were hanged in the main square of the industrial town of Fier , southern Albania , on June 25 . |
| 2 | Above The Two Pheasants , a curl of blue smoke hung in the still air . |
| 3 | By the time he returned , half a dozen island girls had sauntered past , and their perfume hung in the still air . |
| 4 | Rachel and David joined in the quest for the green cases that housed the shiny brown conkers and soon pockets and paper bags were bulging as the collection grew , while the sound of spontaneous laughter hung in the still air . |
| 5 | Jonadab was right : the harvest moon hung in the velvety blackness of the sky like a huge orb , casting such a radiance that the cart tracks in the road shone whitely , guiding their feet with no stumbling . |
| 6 | A painting by Gloucestershire and England wicketkeeper , Jack Russell , is being hung in the Imperial War Museum . |
| 7 | Not that summer did anything for Vetch Street ; dust motes hung in the warm air and the sunlight was pitiless , starkly revealing the cracks in the broken pavement , the decaying brickwork of the small terrace houses , and the larger tenements which stood among them , and the rottenness of the wood in the unpainted doors and window-frames . |
| 8 | Light-reflecting vinyls , which look similar , can be hung in the usual way behind switch or socket panels , but are not suitable for humid areas . |
| 9 | As posters go up in hotel lobbies and banners are hung in the international airport terminals , crowds are a foregone conclusion . |
| 10 | Or maybe something like the morning star that still hung in the dawning sky . |
| 11 | The past , reflected Sara , when the peacock silk curtains were newly hung in the Chinese room , was probably more real to her than the present . |
| 12 | Although the Koons ' work is also being shown in Strange Developments , Sherman 's work was not given a similar position of prominence , nor even hung in the same location as Koons ' , as if the exhibition organisers were emphatically hoping to avoid any challenging comparisons . |
| 13 | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy . |
| 14 | The Llewellyn Alexander Gallery is once again holding A Salon Des Refuses of work which was not hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition . |
| 15 | The Gamblers hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1954 . |
| 16 | Quite jolly , and quite filthy , having hung in the banqueting hall of a City guild for centuries . |
| 17 | A three-quarter moon , pale as ivory , hung in the clear sky , sharpening the shadows under their hurrying feet . |
| 18 | He had expected antiques , flowers , the portraits of past barons de Chavigny which had always hung in the old Baron 's offices . |
| 19 | The nimbus of the Baptized God ’ — perhaps based on ‘ The Baptism of Christ ’ by Piero della Francesca whose work hung in the National Gallery 's Umbrian School room marked in Eliot 's Baedeker . |
| 20 | Or perhaps she would paint a picture of Oliver and it would be hung in the National Gallery and everyone would come and look at it and weep because it was so beautiful . |
| 21 | The pause hangs in the cool night air . |
| 22 | Although , in the evening , the orange glow of Newcastle-upon-Tyne hangs in the middle distance and the moan of motorways is blown to the outskirts of its beautiful formal gardens , it remains a peaceful oasis of eighteenth-century civilization , unchanged in its verdant park , beneath which lurk a hundred disused coal pits . |
| 23 | That of the National Gallery was acquired as a portrait of Federigo da Montefeltro ( acc. no. 3831 ) and hangs in the Reserve Collection . |
| 24 | I have for instance discovered the Stars and Stripes flag of the 405th Fighter Group at Christchurch , Dorset , where it hangs in the ancient Priory . |
| 25 | The airship 's charred ensign hangs in the nearby church . |
| 26 | An ormolu hall lantern hangs in the top corner |
| 27 | An orange swathe covers the centre of the island ; wings of red cloud hang in the still-blue sky . |
| 28 | On either side of the thrones the pictures of George III ( 1760–1820 ) and Queen Charlotte are by Harrington Mann , copied from the original paintings by Reynolds that now hang in the Royal Academy . |
| 29 | More than a dozen of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada ; other pictures are in galleries all across Canada , and in the homes of art lovers in Europe and America . |
| 30 | At the time of writing there was still no official tally of the art losses , but there were fears for a a massive equestrian portrait of George III by William Beechey , which hung in the private dining room . |