Example sentences of "face be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tears on her face were a different colour now . |
| 2 | ‘ His face is a terrible picture and his fingers and toes are stumps , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Her face is a lush peninsula set in a sea of hair . |
| 4 | A new face is a new focus of interest , whether it 's someone the client already knows or someone who comes to the Home on a Friday to do movement or dance , drama , music therapy or a slide show . |
| 5 | Her face is a perfect circle . |
| 6 | For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) . |
| 7 | The po-faced and the pious may not find that funny , but to hear him tell it and keep a straight face is a considerable feat . |
| 8 | Behind that ordinary , playful tomboy who loves to dress up and paint her face is a tough cookie , with one eye on her bank account . |
| 9 | Your hair is smothered in hot towels or olive oil — or worse , henna — and your face is a glowing beetroot after the face pack . |
| 10 | His face was a melted-tar smear , with durium highlights . |
| 11 | His face was a snarling snout , the face of a boar or a dog . |
| 12 | His eyes were closed and his face was a terrible colour . |
| 13 | This girl did need a woman around her and her brother 's face was a fascinating mixture of satisfaction and irritation . |
| 14 | His battledress was soaked with blood on one side , his face was a ghastly grey colour with the mouth hanging open , his head was turned to one side with the eyes closed . |
| 15 | His face was a ghastly white and his eyes shone red as Cortina brake lights . |
| 16 | I use the word beautiful knowing it to be inaccurate , yet not knowing how else to counteract the myth which has circulated for two centuries that Frankenstein 's monster 's face was a hideous conglomeration of second-hand features . |
| 17 | His eyes were wide open , staring blindly at the ceiling — his face was a mottled blue . |
| 18 | The dark face was a bland , maddening mask . |
| 19 | His face was a taut bitter mask . |
| 20 | Her face was a great disappointment in more ways than one . |
| 21 | The man 's face was a glistening red , as though he had smeared it with Vaseline . |
| 22 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 23 | Her face was a tragic mask , that of a woman who has sent all her sons to a war and waits hourly for the death telegram . |
| 24 | Daryl , a very tall thin young man with a neatly-trimmed beard , with a red knitted stocking tammy buffon 'd up on his hair , with thin features and a beautiful skin , more black than brown ( his mother 's face was a shiny cinnamon ) black and pointed like the African in pictures of the three kings , came down the steps into the kitchen with this tiny fair mite at the bottom of his long arm holding his hand . |
| 25 | His face was a red mush . |
| 26 | Her face was a soft mass of blubbery flesh . |
| 27 | As she walked onto the floor her heart was beating fast with excitement but her face was a smiling serene mask . |
| 28 | At the centre of the face was a concave portion and Nuadu knew that the jutting bone of the nose had gone . |
| 29 | But nobody told her that her face was a pretty heart-shape . |
| 30 | Her face was a white blur under the dark cloak and hood she wore as protection against the fierce wind coming in off the sea . |