Sentence examples for a respectable body from inspiring English sources

By the end of the decade she had amassed a respectable body of published work.

He has produced useful translations (most popularly of "Beowulf," a best seller), idiosyncratic anthologies, a respectable body of criticism and, every few years, a new book of poems.

Very little woodcarving was produced here in proportion to the other arts, yet a respectable body of wooden bowls, clubs, effigies, figurines, and similar objects indicates that the Plains artist did not ignore this medium.

It stretches the imagination almost to breaking point, has a respectable body count and suitable action sequences, and is a gripping read - even if most readers will be able to forecast the ending.

A few years later, with a respectable body of work under my belt, I finally understood that the ability to imagine and then build where nothing had existed before was an ability worth valuing.

"There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community," he wrote in a 1994 book, "The New York Idea".

When they did return, it was with a small, respectable body of supporters, and in this staid manner the new age of official Teddy boy unionism was ushered in.

In the 1970s the National Council of Civil Liberties, an eminently respectable body staffed by eminently respectable people like Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman, actually allowed affiliation with the Paedophile Information Exchange, so little was the nature of paedophilia understood.

There is general legal principle that a professional, or someone purporting to act professionally, should act in accordance with: (1) the practice accepted as proper by a responsible, reasonable and respectable body of opinion; or (2) the recognised practice within his/her profession.

When The Big Aristotle was a rookie, he had a respectable 12.2percentt body fat clip.

"That respectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a sight truly English.