Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is clear that the House welcomes the Bill , the provisions appear to have been drafted largely with British Rail in mind . |
| 2 | I want to be clear that the House realises what we are doing . |
| 3 | Being unemployed and a house owner put even more stress on our relationship . |
| 4 | Something had gone wrong and the House wanted blood . |
| 5 | The barn was derelict and the house looked like a lump of mouldy concrete . |
| 6 | Still other rules cause the deletion of elements from the structure : [ 7 ] The house was empty and the house was neglected The house was empty and neglected . |
| 7 | I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house . |
| 8 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 9 | There was a terrible wind blowing as well , sheeting across the plateau , piling the snow into drifts as high as a house . |
| 10 | Drifts as high as a house Jamie said . ’ |
| 11 | as if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to . |
| 12 | It may be more hesitant than the House of Representatives about extending the death penalty , for instance for drug-dealing . |
| 13 | One rejoinder to this would be to cite cases like : ( 35 ) our new neighbours said they had had their old house painted mauve where it is perfectly possible that the house is much younger than anybody in the family . |
| 14 | In the midst of all this young life it was fortunate that the house was roomy enough for the professor still to get enough quiet and space to write . |
| 15 | I was not particularly sad that the house was to be sold . |
| 16 | Lee had inherited a little of his father 's Oriental patience — although he had never met his father , who had apparently run one of the infamous Opium Dens in Whitechapel — and was quite content to sit , absorb the heat , and listen to the soft ticking and creaking as the house settled , content in his own company . |
| 17 | Much later , when the children were asleep and the house was quiet once more , Beth lay in bed beside her husband . |
| 18 | The scenery was lush and the house values just as high as London . |
| 19 | It is perfectly natural to say that the candle is alight or the house is on fire when strictly speaking only a part of it is . |
| 20 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 21 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 22 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 23 | ‘ I am also sure that the House will sympathise with the wish that they should both be afforded a degree of privacy . |
| 24 | I am sure that the House will welcome the fact that it is down to 3.7 per cent . |
| 25 | I am sure that the House would be interested to know what the Labour party 's industrial policy is for the motor industry . |
| 26 | I agree entirely that this is an outrageous invasion of private property , but I am sure that the House would not want Ministers to be able to instruct the judiciary to do anything , because we value its independence . |
| 27 | I am sure that the House very much hopes that the Government 's objectives are achieved because they will be a major step towards solving the issues of the international environment . |
| 28 | I am sure that the House needs no reminding of that . |
| 29 | I am sure that the House — at least , I hope that the House — will join in condemning international terrorism , particularly when it is state inspired . |
| 30 | I am sure that the House will have noted the hon. Gentleman 's invention of a new doctrine — cost-free pay . |