Example sentences of "be wearing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material . |
| 2 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 3 | He ought to be wearing black . |
| 4 | This time , though , ‘ Ned ’ Kelly will be wearing black and white stripes . |
| 5 | ‘ His Royal Highness is quite right , Sharpe , you should be wearing Dutch uniform . ’ |
| 6 | Similarly the range of tasks for which the device is required may not be known in the kind of detail which is available from comprehensive task descriptions but the designer will consider the extremes of what it is likely to be used for and the environment in which it will be used , for example designing a machine-tool for use in a factory has different requirements from designing a powered garden tool where the user could be wearing heavy gloves , will not be wearing safety-boots and will not receive any formal training . |
| 7 | He may be wearing psychedelic Bermudas , a toning but different psychedelic silk T-shirt , a straw panama , severely fashionable horn-rims , and unusually busy sneakers . |
| 8 | Tom will be wearing running shorts and vest woven by himself on Sekers Jacquard Looms , using special colours and with the Sekers name across the front . |
| 9 | He could see the smart business girl : she 'd likely be wearing three-inch high heels and her hair would be permed ; and not only would she look smart , she 'd talk smart . |
| 10 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 11 | ‘ I grew up supporting Liverpool and they 'll all be wearing red and white on Monday night — even though they 'll be shouting for me . |
| 12 | OK — im small and dark and somewhat ‘ chubby ’ ( at the moment — too manuy pints lately … ) . does not look like a viking at all — more some kind of far east/portugese bloke — ill be wearing red puma states and probably black levis — if i see leeds-stuff inside i guess i will be unfolding my leeds ‘ smiley ’ shirt … jacket — du n no — how is the weather over there ? |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll be wearing powered space armour all the time we 're inside the hulk ? |
| 14 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 15 | Border emerged from that verbal fracas with a flea in his ear from Australian officials , but their patience is said to be wearing thin . |