Example sentences of "[art] [adj] games " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thin line of squares — alternately black and white , like tiny isolated tiles of shadow and mist — stretched over the table , through the air on either side of it , and disappeared into the distant side walls of the broad games room , over fallen slates and past rusting columns of wrought iron . |
| 2 | Capital FM 's spring roadshow is to be sponsored by Sega , the European games console manufacturer . |
| 3 | ‘ We have football on Sunday , Monday , Tuesday and by Wednesday we are round to the European games . |
| 4 | Black-figure continues in use long for slight work , and for the prize vases at the Panathenaic games it far outlasts red figure , going deep into the Hellenistic age ; but from the generation after the Pioneers all major vase painters work primarily in red-figure . |
| 5 | On other vases , especially on his favourite form , an egg-shaped amphora with narrow neck , like those used for prize oil at the Panathenaic games , he reaches the logical conclusion of this trend : a vase totally black except for a single figure on each side , without even a ground-line ( fig. 106 ) ; the figure is the whole decoration . |
| 6 | Managers ' success in the political arena depends ultimately on their capacity to play the political games . |
| 7 | I only ever see highlights of the odd games on Tv in scotland but from that i 've always been impressed with him . |
| 8 | He then went to South Africa with the FA summer touring side and played for the national team in one of the representative games . |
| 9 | First came a 7,000 mile , six day round trip from ocean to ocean for Rugby Canada 's two games in Newfoundland ; then back to the west coast with all the healthy B.C. players involved in one or more of the eight games undertaken against Swansea and Northumberland . |
| 10 | For instance , how many magazines covered the Paralympic Games in Barcelona this year ? |
| 11 | Wheelchair athlete Ian Hayden from Sutton Courtenay near Abingdon overcame an arm injury to pick up a second silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona . |
| 12 | Neufville ran for Cambridge Harriers in South East London though she opted for competing for Jamaica in the prestigious games . |
| 13 | The fourth congress of the ruling Communist Party ( PCC ) , scheduled to take place in August in Santiago de Cuba , was postponed until the autumn , ostensibly because it conflicted with the simultaneous hosting of the Pan-American Games . |
| 14 | The covermounted games were great — that is , all except LA Adventure . |
| 15 | There were the usual games in the playground , children chasing each other , boys grabbing girls , everybody laughing and enjoying themselves . |
| 16 | After traditional lunch , the crew play the usual games such as charades . |
| 17 | Of the 12 games that went to the 18th hole during the course of the match overall , only one was won by an American and , as matters got tighter and tighter , the home team got worse and worse . |
| 18 | The excessively long Premier Division will remain in its present state next season , when Roxburgh 's side will play the concluding games in World Cup qualifying Group I. |
| 19 | They are to visit the 1993 Games in Vancouver to help to plan the five-day event , which will be open to athletes who have received organ transplants . |
| 20 | It is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with Scientific Games , that they would be a bidder , the Scientific Games system is a good system . |
| 21 | But in Oxford and Swindon at least there are signs that the traditional rivalries between the 2 games are beginning to change . |
| 22 | ‘ This ban is a pain but I just have to get on with it and make the most of the top games I am allowed to play between now and the Five Nations ' . ’ |
| 23 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 24 | Acer Inc , Taipei , Taiwan says it is considering the possibility of cooperation with Nintendo Co Ltd in the electronic games industry and plans to submit a proposal to the Japanese company soon ; Acer denied a report that it would make electronic games on behalf of Nintendo . |
| 25 | The tough lads are playing the electronic games , kung fu kicking their way through a horde of little screen bad guys . |
| 26 | It wants the Government to mount a publicity campaign to highlight the problem and also called for an an independent body to be set up , funded by profits from the electronic games industry , to monitor the content of computer games . |
| 27 | Not only was he a very good all-round ace with playing-cards , specifically at the popular games of the evening , pontoon , brag , and poker , but an added sideline of his was the large money-box placed on the centre of the table . |
| 28 | Boccia , pronounced botcha , is one of the few games that some cerebral palsy sufferers can play . |
| 29 | Sitting in the airless games room in the basement of the St James ' Club , he stares out of the window , dreamily tracing the pattern in the glass , then stops , vaguely embarrassed at what he 's doing , and turns round to face yet another tape recorder . |
| 30 | Joan 's been involved in disabled sport from its very beginning , at the Paraplegic Games at Stoke Mandeville in 1948 . |