Example sentences of "gone is the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its identity and appearance has changed — gone is the glossy apple green cover of the eighties version and gone is the cumbersome title , instead a simple title and many more pages of information . |
| 2 | Gone is the strong language of Mrs Thatcher 's eighty-eight speech in Bruges , when she berated European rhetoric which did n't address the practical problems of European unity . |
| 3 | Gone is the girlie-girlie image of yesteryear … the dynamic duo Pepsi and Shirlie are back — with a new look and single to boot . |
| 4 | Its identity and appearance has changed — gone is the glossy apple green cover of the eighties version and gone is the cumbersome title , instead a simple title and many more pages of information . |
| 5 | Ashton 's Mother Simone in La Fille Mal Gardée is rightly played by a man who adopts stereotyped female behaviour , but gone is the non-dancing character of the older versions . |