Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman will know that the House was advised in the summer of a new scheme to assist people during periods of very cold weather — well over 1 million payments are expected to be made for the recent cold spell . |
| 2 | It was a relief to know that the house had not been depleted and that it remained uncontaminated . |
| 3 | He was critical of Clive Thornton for having once claimed that a house was the best investment , since prices rise and never fall ; they may reach a plateau , but will then rise again . |
| 4 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 5 | When the Nethercotts shifted their furniture into the wreckage , they were surprised to discover that the house was considerably bigger outside than in . |
| 6 | Jackson was somewhat surprised to find that the house was divided into two flats , each with its own letter-box and doorbell . |
| 7 | How many times have hard-working men arrived home from work only to find that the house is upside down , furniture completely re-arranged and their favourite chair completely out of kilter with the best view of the TV ? |
| 8 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 9 | On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation . |
| 10 | It is currently considered that a House consisting of some 650 members is appropriate ; the figure has been between 600 and 650 for many decades although there is nothing magic about this particular size . |
| 11 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 12 | The attendance of the remainder at school was discontinued and the house was closed to visitors ; it was visited by the Inspector of Nuisances for the Borough . |
| 13 | Nowadays it means that Mr Morris chairs the House when Chancellor Norman Lamont delivers his budget … and he also presides when the House goes into committee to discuss the detailed budget legislation . |
| 14 | Nowadays it means that Mr Morris chairs the House when Chancellor Norman Lamont delivers his budget … and he also presides when the House goes into committee to discuss the detailed budget legislation . |
| 15 | Any unpaid accounts may be dealt with by levying a charge on your property to be claimed when the house is sold or changes hands . |
| 16 | He searched for this wonderful house , but could not find it , and was returning home disappointed when he realized that the house was his own house , and that the gold was merely the reflection of the sun . |
| 17 | Then I realized that the house did not belong to a human , but to the horse who had brought me here . |
| 18 | As he came nearer , he realized that the house was familiar and he felt faint with terror . |
| 19 | He did not think that the house was watched that day . |
| 20 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 21 | I do not think that the House of Commons wants to get into an argument about when an inspection is not an inspection . |
| 22 | I suspect that that was the last time that he will make a speech as Minister for the Arts , and I do not think that the House would begrudge him a longer time to say his farewells . |
| 23 | The whole proceedings lasted only twenty-three minutes and assurances were given that the House would be kept informed . |
| 24 | As Julia began to work the room , she realised that the house had been designed and built for just this sort of occasion : it was planned for servants to run . |
| 25 | In considering the merits of such suggestions , it is important to realize that the House of Lords is also the final appeal court for cases originating in Scotland and Northern Ireland which have their own legal systems . |
| 26 | SAVE 's solicitors argued that the House of Lords judgment ‘ extends to the case where the demolition , although not total , is sufficiently substantial to alter or remove the identity of the building ’ . |
| 27 | Blom-Cooper and Drewry concluded that there was a role for the House of Lords and argued that the House of Lords was neither unfitted to retain its present judicial role nor prohibitively expensive to use . |
| 28 | I have heard that the house is inhabited , and that it is now a farmhouse ; but not a human being in sight anywhere near it ; the ploughmen have left the fields , the farm buildings are deserted . |
| 29 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 30 | The Society hopes that any possible rescue package will ensure that the house soon to be placed on the market by the receivers will become the responsibility of a charitable trust such as The National Trust . |