Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] sounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not really , but I must confess to experiencing some trouble locating my favourite sounds . |
| 2 | Most bassists probably know what their favourite sounds ‘ look ’ like on a graphic , so this idea is actually quite practical , and setting up the programs could n't be simpler . |
| 3 | But does their agreement about guitars carry over to their individual sounds ? |
| 4 | She made herself breathe through her mouth as slowly as she could to hush her own sounds , and inhaled the odours of the earth with her own warm respiration . |
| 5 | Their shrill sounds and pounding rhythms echo through the valleys , calling communities to unite and appease the natural forces which could damn their crops . |
| 6 | Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new . |
| 7 | 1 Friction Consonant There are nine consonant phonemes whose main sounds all have friction as their most important feature . |
| 8 | The speakers hardly whine and Jim Reid now sings with a US accent , rather than mumbling in a Scots one — it all sounds improbably adult-oriented . |
| 9 | It all sounds rather complicated , but it does serve a useful function in ordering the almost countless number of species in the most economical way . |
| 10 | Pictures from outer space ; satellite dishes , antennae , aerials , squarials , Astra , Sky , BSB … it all sounds pretty confusing . |
| 11 | On 30 July , while Brook was away on holiday , Bridges sent Murrie the note of his conversation of 26 July with Attlee , adding , ‘ It all sounds to me frightfully reminiscent of proposals which have been made before and , I think , discussed . ’ |
| 12 | It all sounds a bit rich to me , and although Belshazzar swallowed it , Handel and his librettist Charles Jennens clearly took the view that it was not one of the moments from the Belshazzar story that should be dwelt upon or scrutinised to any serious degree . |
| 13 | When Mozart is played this well , it all sounds so easy , but such natural , relaxed spontaneity is the hardest thing for any musician to achieve . |
| 14 | It all sounds effortless , but this is the effect if not the reality of Charlie Parker , alto saxophonist . |
| 15 | Well , it all sounds great , very interesting indeed , I 'm just going off to do a play in Wales for five weeks … |
| 16 | It all sounds spontaneous , unconscious and … easy . |
| 17 | ‘ Screaming at comedy gigs , that 's a new one , ’ he mutters , disapprovingly , ‘ It all sounds a bit like Gary Glitter to me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It all sounds very mysterious . ’ |
| 19 | Thus ‘ Somebody Knockin' ’ would have sat happily on ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ ( as would ‘ Cutting The Rug ’ and half the rest of the album ) , ‘ Time Gone By ’ has all the shambling grace of The Faces and everything is beef with tunes , guitars with feeling and amplifiers with revolvers and somehow it all sounds fresh as dew . |
| 20 | It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing , but the system has evolved over many years and it works . |
| 21 | It all sounds as if the compiler technology — an essential element of the Pentium 's claimed performance benefits over the 80486 — is n't quite there yet . |
| 22 | It all sounds as if the compiler technology — an essential element of the Pentium 's claimed performance benefits over the 486 — is n't quite there yet . |
| 23 | It all sounds great , but the pitch scrolling struggles to keep up with the action , while computer-controlled players are unintelligent , often running away from the ball ! |
| 24 | It all sounds very LA , Dudley . |
| 25 | But then to do it well , so that it all sounds extremely natural — so that it flows and sounds effortless — that requires a long preparation , which everyone at La Scala was happy to give it . |
| 26 | The absolute precision of the rhythmic detail in ‘ Reprises par Interversion ’ ( from Livre d'orgue ) would be spellbinding were it not for the fact that it all sounds as natural as breathing , and I marvel at Messiaen 's immaculate measuring of grace notes , not least the recurring four-note figure of ‘ La Vierge et L'Enfant ’ ( from La nativité ) ; how sensible it sounds , how easily it all flows . |
| 27 | I 'm going to try to get her to tell me more , but it all sounds dreadfully nasty . |
| 28 | ‘ It all sounds very muddly , ’ said Gedanken . |
| 29 | It all sounds pretty dangerous to me . ’ |
| 30 | It all sounds mad , like … ’ |