Example sentences of "doors of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us picture a girl entering through the impressive doors of the New York Public Library . |
| 2 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 3 | The idea of ‘ revolution ’ can set the pulses racing , for a time at least , and in 1980 it was invoked by Catherine Belsey : ‘ Only by closing the doors of the English department against theoretical challenges from outside can we continue to ignore the ‘ Copernican' ’ revolution which is currently taking place , and which is radically undermining traditional ways of perceiving both the world and the text . ’ |
| 4 | I would agree that the doors of the English department should not remain closed to theoretical challenges , and in this book I am trying to respond to them . |
| 5 | But this does not stop Abse constructing an elaborate thesis based on Thatcher 's ‘ sphincter morality ’ , for which her mother , Beatrice , should really take the blame : ‘ Thatcher succeeded in initiating the electorate into a new form of gambling : her personal need to end the earlier constraints which she had endured , outlawing the joys of shitting and coprophilia , drove her to open the doors of the Stock Exchange , and end its exclusivity . ’ |
| 6 | So we would not overheat they thoughtfully left the doors of the bus open . |
| 7 | Several flats have living rooms in which the loading-bay doors of the original warehouse have been converted into fully glazed French windows sited behind simple steel railings . |
| 8 | Rowdy customers will be hard to throw out through the double pressure doors of the air-lock , but at closing time Daedalus will reverse the pumps and take the pressure up above atmospheric . |
| 9 | Then they played it over these big speakers , and the doors of the van were open , so my song was booming out into the neighbourhood . |
| 10 | The doors of the prison stand open . |
| 11 | But the double doors of the ward were already swinging shut behind Marie . |
| 12 | However , it is questionable whether the doors of the family home should be closed to the criminal law when so many offences of wife-battering , child battering , and sexual abuse of wives and children seem to go on behind them . |
| 13 | Somewhere not too far below him were the wooden doors of the Gallery Window of the Jungfraujoch railway . |
| 14 | On 1 January 1559 , the ‘ Beggars ' Summons ’ was nailed to the doors of the Scottish friaries , demanding in the name of the ‘ Blind , Crooked , Bedridden , Widows , Orphans and all other poor , so visited by the hand of God as may not work ’ , that the friars should give up their patrimony by Whitsun . |
| 15 | And so saying , Svend Larsen threw open the doors of the stock-room where stacks of tea-chests , many unopened , bore witness to the success of his operation . |
| 16 | THE excitement was almost tangible on the tarmac at Kingston Airport on Saturday prior to the opening of the doors of the first South African Airways plane to land in the Caribbean . |
| 17 | Moulvi Ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered when the Muslims broke open the doors of the mosque , which had been locked for months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 18 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 19 | Fireman Robb shouldered his way through the bat-wing doors of the ‘ Seven Seas ’ on the corner of Kilbowie Road . |
| 20 | Inside the church there is a plaque commemorating the baptism of Alessandro Manzoni on 8 August 1785 , and a fine altar surround by Ludovico Pogliahi , who was responsible for the central doors of the Duomo . |
| 21 | You 'll have to go up the drive and into the front doors of the school : they 're assembling outside the main office . |
| 22 | Note the mixture of the early Baroque doors of the choir chapel dating from 1639 , with the central modern part of 1929 . |
| 23 | From the library doors , one has an unbroken view right across the entrance hall to the main doors of the house . |
| 24 | When they are ready to be deployed , the doors of the bell and chamber are sealed . |
| 25 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 26 | At Hubberholme , in the heart of sheep farming country , the two doors of the public lavatories were labelled not ‘ Ladies ’ and ‘ Gentlemen ’ but ‘ Yows ’ and ‘ Tups ’ . |
| 27 | He pulled open the doors of the factory . |
| 28 | The Meeting itself will start at 2.15 pm but the doors of the Arena will be open from 12.30 pm . |
| 29 | They 'll delay till they are virtually at the doors of the courthouse . |
| 30 | Beside the front doors of the houses at this mining settlement near Peterlee , slates are set into the walls . |