Example sentences of "walls [ex0] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the walls there are load-bearing . |
| 2 | On the walls there are tiny plates and several paintings . |
| 3 | Elsewhere on the walls there was a trim of Red Verona and various domestic gray and black marbles ; the low vault of the ceiling was again done in orange and yellow plaster , and the floor was finished in red and tan terrazzo . |
| 4 | The sun caught the old mullion windows on the eastern side and against the grey stone walls there was a riot of colour : late flowering fuchsias , michaelmas daisies . |
| 5 | Outside the air was cold , and in the small space almost entirely surrounded by walls there was little light . |
| 6 | Because the converting builder had demolished most of the internal walls there was no correspondence in the shape and layout of the rooms to the flat below , but the lounge was still at the back to take advantage of the small terrace and river view . |
| 7 | On the walls there was a certificate from a professional institution , an advertisement calendar , and a framed photograph of the harbour . |
| 8 | On most of the walls there were stuffed heads ; lion , tiger , deer , something with horns like long corkscrews — and animals that looked so small and delicate … |
| 9 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 10 | The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos . |
| 11 | On shelves around the walls there were pots , vases , jugs , pitchers and plaques of all sorts and sizes , leather-hard or biscuit-fired . |
| 12 | On brown walls there were large framed photographs of the stars of the thirties : Loretta Young , Carole Lombard , Annabella , Don Ameche , Robert Young , Joan Crawford . |