Example sentences of "[art] room for the " in BNC.

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1 By the introduction of a 75 x 75mm ( 3 x 3in ) square-section hollow steel post sited close to the centre of the room for the support of heavy timber trimmers , it was possible to construct a gallery which extends between the flank walls on modestly-sized 38 x 150mm ( 1–1/2 x 6in ) joists , carrying boards which give a platform 2m ( 6–1/2ft ) wide overlooking the larger part of the living-room .
2 The libretto now needs writing , not in terms of expectation of aid from elsewhere — little will come — but expressing the room for the innate , self-help strengths of local people and communities .
3 Catriona 's eyes raked the room for the cousin , but the bar and the more downmarket tables were empty .
4 In one feeding centre the room for the dead had become a Koranic school for young children .
5 And she was already looking around the room for the gun or the knife that he would surely have about him somewhere .
6 Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice .
7 For many boilers , this can be a normal chimney , provided that there is a sufficient supply of fresh air into the room for the fuel to burn .
8 Again his eyes quartered the room for the most likely hiding places .
9 In the 1990s there is no room for the hard-won concessions of the 1970s — sabbaticals , fixed newspaper allowances and four-day weeks — which recognise the problems of stressful , anti-social hours .
10 There was no room for the trick that was merely ‘ showy ’ .
11 Or will it be so difficult to interpret , so rigid in its framework that there is no room for the teacher to try interesting diversions and take the opportunity for exploration of unmapped territory — even of contributing to the design of the map itself ?
12 It may be that one partner is so involved with their own painful feelings during the experiences of midlife , that there is no room for the other 's needs .
13 Rig the rules to prevent minority candidates getting nominated , because there 's no room for the Campaign Group left even to be heavily defeated in what passes for a free election in the new model Labour Party .
14 The unit should not be cut or dismantled in any way — but there is no room for the heater ( or control box ) to be passed through in some tanks .
15 There is now no room for the amateur or the dilettante in the business .
16 And as we might anticipate from Eliot 's distaste for ‘ equality ’ there was no room for the idea that it was possible to educate the masses : ‘ There is no doubt that in our headlong rush to educate everybody , we are lowering standards … destroying our ancient edifices . ’
17 Let me say at once that in a matter of this nature , there is absolutely no room for the application of the principles governing the grant of interlocutory relief which were laid down by Lord Diplock in American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 , 408 .
18 The police procedural has no room for the Holmes-Watson set-up .
19 There appears to be no room for the bill in the present legislative session , but the government has been keen to maintain the momentum of its proposals for reform to the laws .
20 There would be no room for the birds to fly , and dead birds would fall on me as I walked .
21 Unlike Cage and his followers , Glass leaves no room for the intrusion of the random , his music being highly structured .
22 These pieces of evidence would seem to establish beyond doubt the correctness of Mustakimzade 's dating of Molla Arab 's Muftilik , a dating which , in turn , leaves no room for the possibility that Abdulkerim held the Muftilik — or the Muftilik of Istanbul , at any rate during the period stated by the later tradition .
23 In equilibrium there is no room for the entrepreneur .
24 This leaves no room for the non-realization of the infinitive event since the action of producing an effect necessarily coincides in time with the appearance of the effect ( concurrent causation ) , and so both these verbs call for the bare infinitive .
25 As this duty had not been broken there was no room for the defence of volenti non fit injuria to operate .
26 However , there is no room for the implication of the covenant in a demise if the landlord enters into an express covenant for quiet enjoyment ( and gives no covenant for title ) .
27 I see no room for the application of s14 .
28 There was n't any dust under the bed really because there was no room for the dust because it was jam-packed
29 Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction .
30 He earned his living with exhibitions of his work , in Ambleside at home and in Keswick , where he rented a room for the purpose ; and he also exhibited in Manchester on occasions .
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