Example sentences of "room [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had an argument that evening in the barrack room between the English speakers and the French and Spanish ; the recent Falklands conflict the bone of contention . |
| 2 | She was collecting many valuable print references and sources , far too many to be used at once , and had special archive cupboards built for her which occupied a tall , cavernous room off the first floor landing at the château where she often worked . |
| 3 | The rest of the party was just a flight of stairs away , in the room off the main hall . |
| 4 | Once , while a student of practical magic at Unseen University , and for a bet , he 'd slipped into the little room off the main library — the room with walls covered in protective lead pentagrams , the room no-one was allowed to occupy for more than four minutes and thirty-two seconds , which was a figure arrived at after two hundred years of cautious experimentation … |
| 5 | When the sunbeams struck into his room through the rustling blinds , and quivered on the opposite wall like golden water , he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful ( 3 ) . |
| 6 | The bombers must have seen the persons in the well-lighted room through the open door and realised that they were almost certain to die in the explosion . |
| 7 | David dumped her bag on the floor by the bed and then went to open the shutters , letting some real light into the room through the yellowing lace curtains . |
| 8 | Indeed , the blaze did little to counteract the wintry draughts blowing into the room through the unshuttered windows , some strong enough to stir the heavy tapestries covering the stone walls . |
| 9 | SOUNESS WALKS TO THE DRESSING ROOM AS THE INJURED GEORGE MCCLUSKEY IS CARRIED OFF |
| 10 | Quigley started to pace up and down the room as the mass murderer , who had now leaped out of bed and on to the window-sill of his hospital suite , announced his intention of travelling the sixteen floors between him and the pavement without the aid of lift or stairs . |
| 11 | Soon afterwards Betty Law was having another presentation , this time in the board room as the assembled directors and senior management gave her a colour television on behalf of the company . |
| 12 | Installation time is largely dependant on how much disk space the files you have already take up , since what 's already there is squeezed to make room for the extra drive , and squeezing takes time . |
| 13 | Finding room for the extra athletes may not be as simple as the organising committee would like to pretend . |
| 14 | Many other worthwhile books were , like them , consigned to pulp or book sales because they were simply ‘ irrelevant to the community ’ , so as to make room for the multiple copies of paperbacks from Pluto Press and the like which the community apparently needed more . |
| 15 | The Cabinet 's Social Security Committee met in the Downing Street Cabinet room for the first time on Wednesday 6 February 1985 . |
| 16 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 17 | A third building included a single-storey office which incorporated a design studio and dark room for the first time and enabled Laura to organize her print and pattern research . |
| 18 | Consequently the remaining seven Wellingtons of 148 Squadron left for Egypt , making room for the first detachment of six Blenheims from 21 Squadron . |
| 19 | once the strength of the new week 's material has been assessed , the next move is to decide which records will be removed from the present playlist to make room for the new ones . |
| 20 | Those whose desks will be rearranged to find room for the new machines will find it harder to exert some control . |
| 21 | In May 1890 , the minutes state that ‘ the old Saloon Shed having been pulled down to make room for the new Paint Shop , a shed is required for the three shunt engines ’ . |
| 22 | MOVED from South Kensington to allow room for the new Flight gallery ( see page 10 ) , the Science Museum ( ScM ) has placed Avro 504K D7560 on loan to the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop , Hants . |
| 23 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 24 | Will you require one large room for the entire week , with subsidiary rooms for practical classes , formal lectures etc. , or is one room sufficient ? |
| 25 | Most of the yarn is spun in factories , but for an extra special jumper , there 's still room for the traditional methods . |
| 26 | If the parent finds difficulty in not reacting to the child while in ‘ time out ’ on the chair , it may be better for the child to be placed in a safe separate room for the equivalent time . |
| 27 | The Gold Cup was to demonstrate that there was still some room for the small man . |
| 28 | The government view has been that the way towards prosperity is for the state to do less and so leave room for the private sector to expand . |
| 29 | Planners admit they 've squeezed the council properties to make room for the private homes . |
| 30 | This strange logic leaves little room for the subjective assessment that the ASB says will be necessary to determine whether derecognition is appropriate . |