| Early 20th century belter Bessie Smith was buried in a pauper's grave until '60s rock stalwart Janis Joplin bought her a marker. |
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| There are only six minutes gone and this match is shaping up to be a belter. |
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| I remember him writing a poem against Mrs Thatcher that was an absolute belter. |
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| The 2.3 petrol engine is an absolute belter, and there are also two diesels to choose from, a 2.2 and a 3.0-litre. |
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| There's such a wide range of styles, but if you're going to be a blues belter, you have no hope of retaining your top range. |
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| I have done stage, musical stage, not a tenor singer, but a belter, like for musical comedy. |
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| Only in Britain, where the public cannot tell the difference between a bare-chested belter and a genuine opera singer, have sales held steady. |
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| The resultant kerfuffle almost overshadowed the fact that they'd released a belter of an album. |
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| The consensus is that this year's Six Nations Championship has been a belter, but this view has little to do with the standard of rugby on view. |
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| As galvanic as Holliday is Cleavant Derricks as a slam-bang comic belter sadly beached by new musical tides. |
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| The Stade de France offers better playing conditions, a full-sized field and a belter of a Test match. |
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| It was a belter and only a splendid save from Zbigniew Malkowski kept the match at stalemate. |
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| I've been thinking a lot about the craft of film-making recently, and I think I may have a belter of a story. |
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| The 600 plus pages will tempt only those with a serious interest in the subject, but as an account of the extraordinary and sad lives this is a belter. |
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| As his career went on, his stuff lost nuance – he became more of a belter, less likely to worry his way through a complex sentence or thought. |
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| But mentally Australia were now shot and victory looked a non-starter even before Harry Brind prepared an Oval belter, the sun came out and England won the toss. |
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| The new season cues off this Thursday and if the commitment of the players and organisers are anywhere near as good as last season then we are in for a belter! |
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| The Chorley attack was made to suffer, though in fairness Dennis Lillee at his best would probably have struggled to make much of an impact on a belter of a pitch for batting. |
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| I went to watch a Celtic match a couple of years ago and, being a fair old belter of ballads myself, had no objection to a bit of healthy tribalism. |
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| Not a belter in the vocal department, she manages to retain a charming fragility while knowing enough to be able to inject humour and colour where its needed. |
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| It's a guitar thrashing, cymbal crashing, feedback climaxing belter! |
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| But it was Thistle who were able to swat their opponents for the second time soon after the re-start after Scott Paterson had come reasonably close with a long-range belter. |
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| And that encore at Southampton with Ali Dia was a belter. |
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| Comedian Peter Kay's new sitcom Car Share looks like being a real belter for the BBC, scooping 5.7 million viewers on BBC1 on Wednesday night as well as breaking iPlayer records. |
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| An occasionally off-key soul belter, but still. |
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| Yet he ignored that of his compatriot John Inverarity, the Warwickshire coach at the time, who had repeatedly told the Australian team's coach, John Buchanan, that the wicket was a belter. |
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| Though they have a belter and a blues singer, the vampiness of their delivery suggested more theater than church in their backgrounds. |
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| The platinum blond belter from Sennybridge says solo record number three will be a far cry from the classical crossover style that made his name. |
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| With far less immediate commercial potential than Brassed Off or Herman's last picture Little Voice, Purely Belter feels thrown together and bitty. |
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