Example sentences of "and [verb] such [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vital clue in this respect was the attitude of the Bohemians and those other refugees from the middle-class world who had found music-hall and vaudeville such an exciting diversion . |
| 2 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 3 | High levels of public violence eventually forced the US ‘ occupying forces to take the necessary steps to control and remedy such a deplorable situation ’ ( Yamamoto 1981 p.30 ) . |
| 4 | The male mafia will close ranks and deem such a woman unstable , neurotic and quite unsuitable for responsibility . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , why did he go down to Streatley on the Saturday night , and make such a bloody secret of it ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Who but the English could put together two such unwelcome words and make such an appropriate term of them ? |
| 7 | Startled , Laura glanced quickly up at him , and met such a warm , infectious grin that she found herself smiling nervously back in return . |
| 8 | ‘ Rather silly of me , was n't it , to go and make such a careless mistake ? ’ |
| 9 | They totalled seventy-six drawings and made such a lavish display , in a climate so obviously orientated towards a classical outcome , that they could almost be considered as a challenge to the sponsors with their instinctive bias towards classical architecture . |
| 10 | At once , she set to work and made such a remarkable copy of a Michelangelo that she was sent , when ten years old , to the Dublin School of Art where she learnt drawing and sculpture . |
| 11 | Some 400 million years ago , they found ways of surviving out of water and made such a success of life in their new surroundings that they ultimately gave rise to the most numerous and diverse group of all land animals , the insects . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . |
| 13 | MONDAY After the Miracle by William Gibson , which continues the wonderful Helen Keller story , was produced by the Horseshoe Theatre Company at the Central Studio , Basingstoke in 1990 and made such an impact that there were demands for a repeat . |
| 14 | Although Green took heed of this advice and made such the subjects of many successful paintings , his main strength was in his large scale landscapes . |
| 15 | She had thrown Luke to the ground , herself on top of him , and when the yelling and the thudding and the terrible , high-pitched howling of collective terror had been over , when the cavalry had charged through the crowd like a scythe through a cornfield and silence such a silence had fallen , she had opened her eyes and seen blood everywhere , in her hair and her hands , all over the stupefied , half-suffocated child . |
| 16 | In the case of the weak interaction the ‘ balls ’ must be very heavy , because the force is so feeble and has such a short range : it would be difficult to throw a rugby ball made of lead very far , very often . |
| 17 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |
| 18 | ‘ I can only remember the Maid 's Hook , ’ said Bessie , ‘ because it stands all on its own in the heavens and has such a definite shape . ’ |
| 19 | In fact , a close reading of Dworkin 's theory indicates that there is no inconsistency in both advocating a right of conscientious war-tax diversion and denying such a right in the case of the welfare-tax protester . |
| 20 | The Chicontepec oil is onshore and close to infrastructure , but it is dogged with very low productivity sands , and covers such a large area that accurate prediction of the sweet spots is the only way to reduce an onerous number of wells . |
| 21 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
| 22 | Josephine Butler , who put so much emphasis on the importance of women 's domestic virtues , deplored the idea that reproduction alone should be ‘ the essential aim of [ women 's ] existence ’ , and considered such a position to be contrary to ‘ the unity of moral law ’ . |
| 23 | It must have been a daunting task to know how to encompass and animate such an extensive and familiar subject , but the Royal College of Art , which was commissioned to organise and design the event , enlisted that most reliable of cultural populists , John Julius Norwich , to curate , and he has proved a model of Dimblebyan dependability , as well as introducing the commendably brief but informative and well laid-out catalogue . |
| 24 | The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry . |
| 25 | Mr Dennis and the Honda Marlborough McLaren team face a massive task to resurrect their fortunes after scoring only nine points in the opening three races and enduring such a miserable weekend debut with the long-awaited MP4/7A . |
| 26 | To install a computerised accounting system and employ someone with experience of setting up and operating such a system . |
| 27 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 28 | In spite of the difficulties of organizing and sustaining such an action in conditions of clandestinity , it continued for almost a week — an unprecedented event in the Franco regime . |
| 29 | ‘ All I can say is that it 's wonderful to come to Virginia and receive such an incredibly warm and encouraging welcome . |
| 30 | ‘ Whereas the police , no doubt , would continue to draft in innumerable squads of men to trample the landscape and inspect the ground , and exude such an aura of busyness and continuous reorganisation that even the most cynical observer could not fail to be impressed . ’ |