Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] shows " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of a cost-cutting exercise in the year when their franchises are up for grabs , the ITV companies have singled out eight popular shows that may be available to commercial sponsors in the future . |
| 2 | In the latter part of the 18th century South Ella was the property of Arthur Eggington Esq JP , who kept one of the finest herds of black Aberdeen Angus cattle in England , prize winners at many English and Scottish agricultural shows . |
| 3 | A few in-hand shows are all experience too , but avoid doing too many because young horses soon become tired , bored and bolshy ! |
| 4 | This is happening while students play pool and pinball machines , and right next to him , Madam Mosley knits a scarf and talks about making good sensible entertaining shows . |
| 5 | Livermore said : ‘ The fact we are only four points off the top six shows how close the Premier League is . ’ |
| 6 | We 're looking for 12 well-established shows to host our regional semi-finals . |
| 7 | Nearly all the top rated shows are home-produced . |
| 8 | This all shows that stones are very active and can absorb and give out energies . |
| 9 | Why not visit the Amphitheatre and watch one of the exciting International Shows or perhaps you will find something else to do — there is so much going on from Fashion Shows to Jazz Festivals . |
| 10 | We played to capacity for fifteen weeks , made the top ten shows in London , extended for another six weeks , and I never felt a single twinge of boredom . |
| 11 | His energetic , funny and highly entertaining live shows have won wide acclaim and his once sleepy cocoon of fans has begun to form into something bigger and stronger . |
| 12 | ‘ This just shows how hungry institutions are for commissions , ’ one banker said . |
| 13 | This just shows what a Philistine I am . |
| 14 | Her husband , who wrote some 40 shows for her , died in 1975 . |
| 15 | PET SHOP BOYS , currently stampeding towards the Top Ten with their cover of U2 's ‘ Where The Streets Have No Name ’ , have added another seven shows to their UK tour . |
| 16 | The fact that the question is thrown into the perfect tense shows beyond doubt that no other facts than those stated in the first sentence are to be assumed . |
| 17 | Most recent early Netherlandish shows have therefore tended to be closely focused , either with very few outside loans ( as with the National Gallery , Washington 's 1992 show around its Gerard David ‘ St Anne altarpiece ’ which temporarily reunited the gallery 's three central panels with its predella panels from Edinburgh and Toledo , Ohio ) , or organised as in-house ‘ dossier ’ shows , as with the 1991 Joos van Cleve exhibition at the Louvre , organised by Cecile Scaillierez , who is preparing an in-house Hans Memling show for 1994 . |
| 18 | The NEC 's 12,000 seat Arena and the new 13,000 seater National Indoor Arena welcome the world 's top rock and pop stars in the exciting and colourful live shows . |
| 19 | The fact that unemployment is now double its 1979 level shows that the Government have failed . |
| 20 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 21 | Nonetheless it was news really which brought people in beyond the mere curiosity of seeing pictures that moved , brought people in erm to these early shows . |
| 22 | These splendid shows run in tandem until 3 March . |
| 23 | At these outside shows it depends on the weather . |
| 24 | In other words , the majority of work in these three shows refuses to be silenced by the weight of modernist authority , choosing instead to inhabit the body of tradition in the form of an uninvited and irrepressible guest . |
| 25 | That 's why the response at these unseated shows is so much more positive . |
| 26 | The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’ |
| 27 | You can tell the heavy hitters at these international shows by the sizes of their entourages . |
| 28 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 29 | Thomas Hoving , former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , told The Art Newspaper , ‘ There 's no reason Memphis should not put on these great shows . |
| 30 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |