Example sentences of "is decorated with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was built in 1885 in the Czech Renaissance style after a plan by A. Wiehl , and is decorated with marvellous sgraffiato depicting the battle with the Swedes on Charles Bridge in 1648 . |
| 2 | Fowles 's finest novel , The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , is decorated with parodistic devices far less integral than in Joyce 's Ulysses , as if a technique needed to be aped and mocked in order to be exorcised . |
| 3 | Holborn Viaduct is decorated with assorted figures and the arms of the City , and is best seen from Farringdon Street . |
| 4 | The framework of the grid itself is decorated with simple guilloche , which is present in the Blackfriars mosaic ( pI . |
| 5 | The altar is at the west end where the apse is decorated with rich gilt and coloured mosaics which cover the whole surface area and , in the conch , is depicted Christ and the Virgin Mary . |
| 6 | The bar is furnished with leather-covered chairs and stools , glass-topped tables and , like the lounge , is decorated with sporting prints . |
| 7 | Making a mirror that is decorated with pressed flowers is an ideal way of co-ordinating the decorative scheme of a room , and it would also be a perfect gift . |
| 8 | It is decorated with pierced holes — a feature common on Blackfoot Indian shirts and possibly invoking sacred protection against bullets — and with the uncommon technique of wrapping horsehair in porcupine quills . |
| 9 | It foreshadows the work of Donatello or Verrocchio , but is decorated with minute details of nature so beloved by the ‘ International Gothic ’ . |
| 10 | The larger trifoliate bow has an acorn knob on the end , and its extended rectangular pedestal — which was originally heavily silvered — is decorated with incised lines . |
| 11 | The dolphin 's body is decorated with incised , semi- circular punch marks , imitating fish scales . |
| 12 | The case and quiver were carried by means of the bandoleer which is decorated with red and dark blue stroud , otter fur and small triangles of beadwork . |
| 13 | In the case of the picture shown opposite , I found a beautiful frame , with a lovely wide gold band on the inner side of the frame that is decorated with red and green flowers and leaves . |
| 14 | The throne is decorated with coloured marble , jewelled mosaics , ivory angels , and allegorical reliefs . |
| 15 | Nilsson quotes the carved steatite vessel found at Knossos , showing the stepped balustrade of a ceremonial staircase ; the staircase was obviously not itself a shrine , yet the balustrade 's cornice is decorated with sacral horns ( Figure 52 ) . |
| 16 | The fastigiate oak was an acorn in Innsbruck in 1950 ; the bottlebrush buckeye chestnut or , more elegantly , Aesculus parviflora , was a birthday present tree for Mrs Hewer , and is decorated with white candle-flowers in mid-summer ; the nearby amelanchier , flowering in April , is the Professor 's birthday tree . |