Example sentences of "house [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only modern items in the entire house are a television and a video . |
| 2 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 3 | Among the most beautifully turned pieces of furniture in the house are the wheelbacked Windsor kitchen chairs , made from yew . |
| 4 | Specialities of the house are the crab soup , made from locally caught crabs , and homemade sweets . |
| 5 | Specialities of the house are the traditional roasts and delicious old-fashioned sweets . |
| 6 | A popular speciality of the house are the freshly baked wholewheat and herb soda breads . |
| 7 | A House are the finest band Ireland has ever produced . |
| 8 | He was aware of a profoundly warm , placid , peaceful silence as if the house were a happy animal asleep in the sun . |
| 9 | The problem was that engagements like that at Pusey House were a distraction from what he considered to be his main business — that of finishing The Cocktail Party . |
| 10 | In properly regulated households they are invisible , as though the house were a magical place , ministered to by disembodied presences . |
| 11 | If this house were a score it would sing of all that is best in modern music . |
| 12 | that 's what Kevin and Cindy said their rates on that house were a hundred and something pound a year , their poll tax is nearly four hundred |
| 13 | When tax inspectors sat on high stools and wrote with quills , the sober ranges of Somerset House were an apt location for them . |
| 14 | By 1837 all that survived of the house were the garden and the avenue . |
| 15 | And behind each house were the great moors and finally the sea on each side of the island . |
| 16 | ‘ Robert Johnson , Muddy Waters and Son House were the first people that I really heard . |
| 17 | And at the back of the house were the wooden sheds that were our palaces , our temples , our ranches , our mansions . |
| 18 | Sprawling around the main house were the new wooden huts built to accommodate an increasing school population and almost encroaching on the distant row of classrooms that housed the still-private primary school . |
| 19 | Infections illness among the children and a children 's party on the same afternoon at Baberton Club House were the contributory factors to the low turn-out . |
| 20 | Infectious illness among the children and a children 's party on the same afternoon at Baberton Club House were the contributory factors to the low turn-out . |
| 21 | ‘ All that rigmarole about the house being a haunted house was just to keep people from inquiring if they saw any signs of William Egan 's habitation ? ’ |
| 22 | Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ‘ a valuable numerous collection ’ , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off-the-cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth-century domestic arrangements : ‘ The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ’ |
| 23 | My house is a decayed house , |
| 24 | Granby House is a seven-storey building of 1908 which was built as a cotton warehouse . |
| 25 | The core of the house is a 15th-century hall , which retains the plan of the screens passage that divided the open hall from the service areas of buttery and pantry . |
| 26 | She 's in splendid voice on chart-friendly pieces like Never Be You , while Halfway House is a harrowing look at a marriage in transition . |
| 27 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 28 | ‘ COMPTON BEAUCHAMP house is a gem privily set in a bosky lap of the bare chalk downs where they meet the fertile flats of the White Horse Vale . |
| 29 | THE RED House is a celebrated Victorian house — built for William Morris , writer , socialist , artist , craftsman and manufacturer , by his friend , the great architect Philip Webb . |
| 30 | THE American house is a domestic fortress , protected by garage doors that snap shut like a clamshell when the occupants come home each evening . |