Example sentences of "[verb] of a [adj] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of a 28-seat House of Assembly popularly elected every five years , and a 21-seat appointed Senate . |
| 2 | It was Mary who , with her husband Joseph — also a striking and impressive example of God 's grace — made of a simple house in Nazareth a home for the King of Kings . |
| 3 | A trustee in a sequestrated estate , part of which consisted of a public house business , who did not himself hold the certificate or retail excisable liquor , was held not to be disqualified under the corresponding provision then in force : Lundie v. Magistrates of Falkirk ( 1890 ) 18 R. 60 . |
| 4 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament , which consists of a 60-member House of Representatives popularly elected for up to five years , and a 21-member appointed Senate . |
| 5 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament , which consists of a 60-member House of Representatives , popularly elected for up to five years , and a 21-member appointed Senate . |
| 6 | Each village consists of a single house of a patrilineal extended family with 15–46 members . |
| 7 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 8 | Legislative authority is vested in a popularly elected bicameral Diet which is composed of a 512-member House of Representatives ( or Lower House , elected for up to four years ) and a House of Councillors ( or Upper House , whose 252 members are elected for six years , with half being due for re-election every three years ) . |
| 9 | Legislative authority is vested in a popularly elected bicameral Diet which is composed of a 512-member House of Representatives ( elected for up to four years ) and a House of Councillors ( whose 252 members are elected for six years , with half being due for re-election every three years ) . |
| 10 | Legislative power is vested in the bicameral National Assembly , composed of a 28-member House of Representatives ( popularly elected for five years ) and an appointed Senate . |
| 11 | Legislative power is vested in the bicameral National Assembly , composed of a 28-member House of Representatives , popularly elected for five years , and an eight-member appointed Senate . |
| 12 | A traveller in the early seventeenth century wrote of a thatched house in Langholm that the wall had ‘ one course of stones , another of sods of earth , a door of wicker rods , and the spider webs hung over our heads as thick as might be in our bed ’ . |