Example sentences of "in [art] house of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a more complicated echo of Shakespeare in the scene when Aragorn , as the true king , revives the sick in the Houses of Healing with his touch and the herb athelas . |
| 2 | Merry , in the Houses of Healing , asks immediately after his recall from death by the sacral king for ‘ supper first , and after that a pipe ’ . |
| 3 | The entrances were placed where most convenient and there was ‘ a high degree of natural and justifiable irregularity in almost all the parts ’ which , although rejected in the Houses of Parliament , was he said , ‘ the invariable practice of the best Gothic architects ’ . |
| 4 | As Scott later pointed out , he then reversed his usual argument that Gothic did not provide enough light , by explaining how difficult it was for the Speaker to control the sunlight coming through the windows of his house in the Houses of Parliament . |
| 5 | Stirling said that he liked both styles of architecture , but with the ‘ sacrifice of convenience to a constant repetition of insipid ornament ’ in the Houses of Parliament , the House had a natural prejudice against Gothic . |
| 6 | FROM THE STRAND , once more the beach that its historic name suggests , you may board a vaporetto to take in the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Abbey , Buckingham Palace and other principal sights . |
| 7 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 8 | In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ . |
| 9 | During the second half of the century , moreover , there was a tendency in several States to house soldiers in purpose-built barracks rather than , as hitherto , to quarter them mainly in the houses of civilians ; by 1775 , 200,000 French soldiers were living in barracks . |
| 10 | Along one wall is a low stone table-top , no different from those in the houses of Los Hinteles . |
| 11 | The changeling character is Sandra Bernhard , who is perched next to me on a gilt-covered chair in a mirrored room high up in the House of Dior . |
| 12 | The Tarnished Crown : Crisis in the House of Windsor , is ‘ perhaps the most significant work ever written on the House of Windsor , ’ ( Daily Express , May 8 ) and promises to ‘ fan the flames of royal debate like no other publications since Andrew Morton 's Diana : Her True Story ’ ( The Times , May 3 ) . |
| 13 | However , those less interested in the in-fighting in the House of Windsor than the environment will have noticed that Sarah Ferguson did one thing RIGHT . |
| 14 | Ferdinand was ruthless in victory and made the Bohemian kingship hereditary in the House of Habsburg . |
| 15 | So the ceilings painted in the house of Cheron , the tapestries and carpets for which it is justly famed — reviewed in articles by Wendy Hefford and Ian Bennett and Frances Michael , are supplemented by pictures acquired for Bloomsbury . |
| 16 | In the December 1989 elections the UDI , the party closest to Pinochet , had emerged as the weaker of the two right-wing opposition parties , winning 11 seats in the House of Deputies and five in the Senate . |
| 17 | His literary theories were trenchantly expressed in Hieroglyphics ( 1902 ) , and his supernatural tales collected in The House of Souls ( 1906 ) . |
| 18 | The royal family , in the House of Ipatyev , had already been brutally murdered eight days earlier . |
| 19 | Voting was 30 to 17 in favour in the House of Bishops , 149 to 85 in the House of Clergy and 144 to 78 in the House of Laity . |
| 20 | The Japan Socialist Party ( JSP ) , the country 's leading opposition grouping , comfortably retained a seat in the House of Councillors ( the upper chamber of the Diet ) at a by-election in Fukuoka Prefecture , in southern Japan , on June 10 . |
| 21 | However , plans to send members of the Japanese armed forces to the Gulf in a non-combat role had collapsed in November after Kaifu failed to secure the necessary bipartisan support for the measure 's approval in the House of Councillors — the upper chamber of the Diet — where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |
| 22 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 23 | He 's slightly happier about ‘ Fontana ’ , the second album and the one that yielded a hit in the shape of Shine On , but personnel problems were beginning to mar the band 's outlook and it soon became common knowledge that there was wet rot in The House Of Love . |
| 24 | And there 's the nub of it : Guy Chadwick knows full well that , for good or bad , he 's got to call the shots in The House Of Love . |
| 25 | GUITARS IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE |
| 26 | … John and I , flattered at first by the sweet smell of success , had to get out of it , into another language , forgotten in the House of Fame but happy ever after in the House of Fiction . |
| 27 | ILHU president , Joan McCloy , presented the pair with silver shamrocks at a function in the House of Sport last night . |
| 28 | And an hour later in the House of Sport , the road race committee will hear the views of tarmac competitors . |
| 29 | Philip , understandably , selects those passages revealing his uneasy situation in the house of Cis and Elfed . |
| 30 | Mother did n't , could n't , will never understand why a sport should take precedence over sensible activities like , say , a nice coffee morning , or an afternoon in the House of Fraser or a kaluki evening ( that 's a nice card game , not to be confused with an unendurable evening of Japanese theatricals ) . |