Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the house [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The challenge then is to find a new use which will not only secure the future of the house but undo some of the damage that has been done .
2 The family coat of arms can be seen carved at the main doorway of the house and in the Church .
3 In 1980 , mining operations threatened the fabric of the house and British Coal , calculating it would be cheaper to cope with subsidence problems if it owned the house itself , acquired the property .
4 Ordered , That , notwithstanding the practice of the House as to the intervals between stages of Bills brought in upon Ways and Means Resolutions , more than one stage of the Stamp Duty ( Temporary Provisions ) Bill may be taken at any sitting of the House .
5 Total warfare , though , aims at the annihilation of the enemy village , the death of all its inhabitants , the burning of the house and its contents and even the uprooting of the crops .
6 It is not , it seems , a rule of the House that a question actually be a question and not mere polemic disguised as a question .
7 This was obviously the side of the house that was meant to be considered as the frontage , with its six-foot windows 65 and its first-floor parapet and views over formal gardens .
8 I think that there is a general recognition on the Opposition side of the House that you have a difficult job at Scottish Question Time .
9 I am sure that not only hon. Members on this side of the House but the majority of people in this country wish my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my other right hon. Friends well in their very important negotiations in Maastricht .
10 Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity .
11 I went outside and walked round the side of the house and into the orchard .
12 They trekked round the side of the house and started a weary trail back over the moon-grey lawn , their feet dragging dark channels through the dew .
13 It is not a difficult job ; it merely involves removing airbricks in one side of the house and inserting a pipe under the floor and a small fan unit on the outside .
14 There was a gallery here on the west side of the house and there is an oil painting of it in the house .
15 I crept downstairs and was outside and successfully making for the front gate when Ted sprinted around the side of the house and grabbed me .
16 She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built .
17 Presently a woman came out of the door at the side of the house and walked towards them .
18 They walked round the side of the house and her step faltered .
19 Nothing daunted , Hari moved to the side of the house and saw that a small window was open .
20 She came round the side of the house and looked in at the bay window .
21 An old man in corduroy breeches and cloth jacket came round the side of the house and touched his cap .
22 And then my parents had a big er lean- to built at the side of the house and we had a full size billiard table in there .
23 All three hurried round the side of the house and issued through the gates on to the road .
24 There were open sliding glass windows at the side of the house and in the dim interior I could just make out two figures standing .
25 She found a jasmine-scented corner of garden at the side of the house and sat down on a rustic wooden seat , watching twittering birds come and go fearlessly around a hanging seed basket .
26 While Mother and the others ran to the west side of the house and found you , I went east .
27 On this side of the House and , I suspect , on many parts of the Opposition Benches there is equal recognition , although unspoken , that those who do not have such a well-founded fear , some other compelling compassionate reason which justifies their remaining or another legitimate claim to stay , should return to their country .
28 Will my right hon. Friend accept that no hon. Member on this side of the House and , if they can leave aside party politicking for a moment , no hon. Member on the Opposition Benches , would believe that my right hon. Friend was capable of flouting the law — — as has been suggested , either in his personal capacity , or , still less , as a holder of one of the great offices of State ?
29 Does my right hon. Friend accept that he has considerable sympathy on this side of the House and in the country , especially as there is now some doubt about whether the judge had the power to make the order that he made ?
30 He had walked round the side of the house and seen the french windows of the Chinese room wide open and the curtains billowing in the breeze .
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