Example sentences of "and [art] house " in BNC.
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| 31 | All kinds of vegetable refuse may be used from the garden and the house for the compost heap , but not woody material . |
| 32 | Many of the nationalists abandoned the hopes of a popular movement , and in subsequent years came to rely upon forces other than popular struggle : Bismarck and the rulers of Prussia , and the House of Savoy . |
| 33 | She takes a short cut down Avondale Road , and passes the five-bedroom detached house of Vic Wilcox without a glance , for she does not know him from Adam , and the house is outwardly no different from any of the other modern executive dwellings in this exclusive residential district : red brick and white paint , ‘ Georgian ’ windows , a tarmac drive and double garage , a burglar alarm prominently displayed on the front elevation . ) |
| 34 | When it was over , and the house lights went up , there was a sort of bemused smile on the collective face of the audience . |
| 35 | The costs of the television experiment were shared between the broadcasters , the Parliamentary Works Office and the House itself . |
| 36 | Mucha 's son is a well-known writer who lives here now , and the house contains a collection of the artist 's work but is not open to the public . |
| 37 | One daughter was triumphantly married into the Scottish aristocracy and the family thus connected through succeeding generations to the net of blood ties which included both the Fairleys and the house of Mountbatten-Windsor . |
| 38 | Where an owner continues to be centrally involved and lives in the house or on the estate , attitudes are likely to be positive and the house opened in a lively fashion . |
| 39 | However , when Roo Management obtained the necessary planning permissions for conversion to a hotel , it did not proceed with the conversion but simply put the house on the market ; and the house has been bought by none other than Mr Whitaker , the very man who wanted to keep the staterooms intact . |
| 40 | The earliest extensions or additions may be discreetly sited and carefully designed , but very quickly the hut syndrome is underway and the house is rapidly surrounded by one- or two-storey flat-roofed extensions of the very utilitarian kind mercilessly caricatured by Osbert Lancaster . |
| 41 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 42 | So , having assessed the relative importance of the place and the house in which you would like to live , tables such as these should also help to assess the particular locations and houses which seem attractive , and you can then score the extent to which they fulfil your requirements . |
| 43 | When the price has been agreed your agent will confirm it in writing and notify your solicitor — but wait until the buyer 's survey has been completed and the house given the OK before celebrating or allowing your agent to put up his ‘ Sold Subject to Contract ’ sign . |
| 44 | ‘ There are four of us to keep , and the house and garden to care for , and your schooling to be paid . |
| 45 | As a devotee of Peel 's programme , Gedge was delighted to appear alongside the DJ 's other favourites , The Fall and The House of Love . |
| 46 | Once contracts are agreed and exchanged , the price and terms are fixed , and the house is as good as yours . |
| 47 | Their chapter includes recommendations from the Institute of Personnel Management and the House of Commons Employment Committee which are designed to improve the situation of older people in employment and on moving into retirement . |
| 48 | It was Threlkeld , where she lived , and the house by the square was her own home . |
| 49 | The concept of the DEA , conceived , according to legend , by Wilson and his deputy , George Brown , in the back of a taxi on the short journey between the St Ermin 's Hotel and the House of Commons ( a legend Wilson has demolished , though on that journey he did offer Brown the job of running the DEA ) had scarcely received the attention it deserved during Labour 's preparation for power . |
| 50 | The RSC , Ofwat and the House of Commons Environment Committee have submitted responses to the government 's proposals for a single environment agency . |
| 51 | The National Audit Office ( 1986 ) and the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts ( 1986a ) have produced their own evaluations . |
| 52 | In 1916 the 2nd Earl of Feversham was killed at the Battle of the Somme and the house became a girls ' school until 1895 . |
| 53 | Her children all live near , and the house is still full with visiting grandchildren . |
| 54 | The barn was derelict and the house looked like a lump of mouldy concrete . |
| 55 | Some people find that the trouble begins when they have the builders in and the house undergoes some kind of dramatic redesigning . |
| 56 | The female cat on heat attracts a whole circle of admiring tom-cats , and the house with such a cat is therefore a place where perhaps any female , even human , would be successful at attracting a large circle of male admirers . |
| 57 | My parents were tenants and the house was very basic — the sink was outside and the cooker was on the landing . |
| 58 | Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’ |
| 59 | But when she went to the head of the stairs and looked down she could see that his study door was ajar and the house was quiet and she returned to her room . |
| 60 | ‘ Mr Wood 's a respectable gentleman , and the house is a right palace compared to this . |