Example sentences of "striking be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Striking is the contrast between their artfully-poled craft , laden with wind-up gramophones , teddy bears and pints of Pimms , and the aquatic dodgems of your average punter , bearing ghetto-blasters , squealing skirt and six-packs of Australian lager . |
| 2 | Equally striking is the difference between the German Rolandslied of the mid twelfth century and Wolfram von Eschenbach 's Willehalm in the early thirteenth : in the former , the heathen are cattle for the slaughter ; in the latter their destiny , their value in God 's eyes , are a central theme of the poem . |
| 3 | Equally striking is the copious evidence that students flocked , as never before since the decline of the ancient world , to distant centres of learning . |
| 4 | What makes Sgr A West particularly striking is the spiral-like pattern of emission , with Sgr A near its centroid . |
| 5 | But equally striking is the fact that the rest of Aquitaine , including regions as turbulent as La Marche , the Limousin and the whole of Gascony , took virtually no part in the revolt . |
| 6 | Throughout this period what is striking is the perpetual fluctuation between the serious and the humorous , between a desperate situation and an ironical response . |
| 7 | Equally striking is the similarity of the structures in which these sediments are preserved . |
| 8 | What 's striking is the number of us who have gone on to become foreman or engineers . ’ |
| 9 | Yet what is equally , and perhaps more , striking is the readiness of the evolutionists publicly to challenge the forces of tradition — and their comparatively rapid triumph . |
| 10 | What was always striking was the emotional undertow to Taverner 's polyphonic writing , more obviously involving than the ethereal Palestrina . |
| 11 | So striking was the experience that many were said to believe it was preparatory to the end of the world . |
| 12 | An in-depth study of parental opinions about values in schooling found parents have strong opinions , but what was striking was the lack of willingness to become more involved in how the school goes about dealing with the issue . |