Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ' room " in BNC.
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1 | As the new funding councils for the universities and for the polytechnics and colleges develop systems of contracting , the institutions ' room for manoeuvre in the subjects they offer may diminish further as their programme performance and their accounting arrangements are subjected to ever closer scrutiny . |
2 | That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too . |
3 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
4 | He helped umpire Barry Meyer to repair the damage , but was called to the umpires ' room at the close of play . |
5 | The brothers ' room was dim and shadowed ; she made out their two shapes with difficulty . |
6 | Zen looked into the inspectors ' room . |
7 | Five minutes after entering his office Zen reappeared in the inspectors ' room , where Geraci was watching Chiodini fill in a coupon for a competition promising the winner a lifetime supply of tomato concentrate . |
8 | Upstairs on the third floor Zen stepped into the inspectors ' room , but there was no one there . |
9 | They had last gone through the pointless business in the visitors ' room of a police station . |
10 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
11 | I was led into the visitors ' room where the Baroness was waiting . |
12 | The only carpet was in the best room , or the visitors ' room as they called it . |
13 | Juliet could see her father through the half-open door of the visitors ' room . |
14 | ‘ Ten minutes , ’ she told him , when he was ready to go into Room C. She went back to the visitors ' room to open the window . |
15 | The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure . |
16 | " Wo n't you be having lunch in the directors ' room ? " |
17 | He was recently banned from the directors ' room at Newcastle and has also been shifted from his seat in the directors box to the back of the stand . |
18 | Gibson recently disclosed that Hall had barred ex-Newcastle chairman Gordon McKeag — now Football League president — from the directors ' room . |
19 | Solicitors had feared the veto might limit their new rights , but the framework restricts the judges ' room for manoeuvre . |
20 | I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train . |
21 | Country Villas : Infants under 2 go free if a cot is used as an extra bed in the parents ' room . |
22 | Sovereign offers generous child reductions at most hotels , providing the child is sharing the parents ' room . |
23 | As the door to the parents ' room opened , she held her breath . |
24 | It 's just a race , after all — if you 're any good , you can wave your arms about while pulling a horse 's back teeth out and keep yourself out of the stewards ' room . |
25 | To Nick 's left sat Colonel Beamish who was looking as sceptical and impatient as he had in the stewards ' room at Ascot , and Lord Chester , a wealthy landowner who had ridden as an amateur until recently . |
26 | The door of the passengers ' room was broken . |
27 | She stalked into the teachers ' room and returned with her cane . |
28 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
29 | But watching the race on TV in the jockeys ' room he still summoned the energy to cheer his erstwhile mount home . |
30 | In listing the problems , they began with the Solheim Cup , where they had had to ban Doyle from the players ' room for being a disruptive influence . |