Example sentences of "house [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these businesses were on such a small scale that over a half of them built no more than six houses during these three years and nearly three-quarters built no more than twelve ; the bankruptcy rate was high . |
| 2 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 3 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 4 | Plans for a garden village with houses for key workers were also implemented . |
| 5 | Mud houses for all |
| 6 | Harvey Pitcher , doing research on nineteenth century Arran writers and painters and especially on the wealthy Muir family who rented houses for many years on Arran , has given me this delightful little gem . |
| 7 | That would allow a tremendous movement of people from under-utilised accommodation to smaller accommodation and would allow many people who have been on the waiting list for council houses for many years to be moved into smaller accommodation . |
| 8 | So I walked across Washington Square and along MacDougal where there are coffee houses for rich vagrants . |
| 9 | Millard Fuller , President of Habitat for Humanity International , says he wants to build and renovate houses for low income families — and he does n't want to make a profit . |
| 10 | In America and most other West European countries , young architects generally cut their teeth by designing and building houses for private clients . |
| 11 | Plantation house holidays in Nevis , St Kitts and the Grenadines offer a change from conventional hotels , while there are also villas and Caribbean houses for private holidays . |
| 12 | Since by the end of this decade the law will ban stalls and tethers , farmers will need to match the new houses for pregnant sows with new harrowing houses . |
| 13 | In 1674 Constables Henry Hopkins and Charles Badcock were censured for ‘ … not executing their office of Saturday nights in visiting the Ale Houses for good order and on Sabbath Days ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ In my treatise , Brother , ’ he said softly , ‘ I will suggest houses for such men . |
| 15 | Botany Bay — near Margate , not Sydney — is the location for Sunley Estates ' Northdown Park development , which offers a whole range of houses for first time buyers . |
| 16 | We could n't get out of our houses for two days . ’ |
| 17 | As the ambulance left the scene , neighbours , who had been kept shut in their houses for two days , began to emerge into the sunshine . |
| 18 | At the same time the policy sets certain limits on house-building in rural areas allowing the erection of houses for agricultural workers , for family members working on a full-time basis on a family farm , and on a one-to-one replacement rule . |
| 19 | Not until 1935 , when the government offered rural councils no less than 80 per cent of the cost of construction of houses for agricultural workers , was legislation successful in moving recalcitrant rural authorities . |
| 20 | Castles were also frequently designed as houses for great lords or to be administrative and judicial centres . |
| 21 | He also complained that with separate houses for each office , each house had to have separate office-keepers , housekeepers and messengers . |
| 22 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 23 | ( iii ) self-contained flats and houses for 1 to 6 students , including a limited number for married couples and families , situated in the main within a 1-mile radius of the University . |
| 24 | But now an MP is concerned that it 's the thieves who are cashing in by using the sales as clearing houses for stolen property . |
| 25 | Neither writers nor architects were wholly unaware that these were to be houses for human beings to live in . |
| 26 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 27 | An organisation devoted to the use of historical houses for educational purposes is leaving London and moving north . |
| 28 | The man had not been deliberately cruel or corrupt , like so many non-medical people who licensed their houses for this purpose , but he had stuck to the principle that the violent needed continual restraint , and his daughter still feared more progressive methods . |
| 29 | The measure was principally designed to tackle homelessness by freeing council houses for homeless people . |
| 30 | Will the Minister use his powers to enable local authorities to provide houses for homeless people , whether through local authorities or housing associations , jobs for redundant construction workers , and new business contracts for the building companies which are going bankrupt ? |