Example sentences of "[adj] house was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous house was no good because , with epilepsy , the stairs were a risk and he had already broken most of his ribs . |
| 2 | But none could deny that a fine house was a symbol of status and wealth . |
| 3 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 4 | Grey House was a very exclusive girls ' school , and as she drove into the extensive grounds the next morning Jenna felt the peace of the place close over her as usual . |
| 5 | But in general , it was a place bereft of human activity , where a grey sea rolled unattended on to sand and shingle , and the only house was an abandoned shell ( whose ruins still survive ) . |
| 6 | It was not only that , by 1837 , the structure and contents of houses had begun to change as a result of early mass production , but that society itself had undergone a ( technically ) peaceful revolution , incidentally undermining the consensus that the middle-class house was a scaling down of the houses of the great . |
| 7 | Stretching up to a paint-peeling house was a patch of watermelons and tomatoes . |
| 8 | It boomed as if the whole house was a resonating chamber for the brass instrument on the door . |
| 9 | Their whole house was no bigger than this bathroom — ; |