Example sentences of "[noun] room was " in BNC.

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1 The duty officer at the Cabinet Office Briefing Room was at the centre of a web of information technology .
2 For three days the murder room was the haunt of SOCO and the Detective Chief Inspector as they quartered every inch in search of fingermarks , blood or saliva samples and other prey for their relentless , questioning minds .
3 Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor .
4 A fine barn lies beyond and the wool room was in the house on the first floor away from the gallery .
5 The main living room was used for Quaker meetings for many years .
6 Maud 's living room was not what might have been expected of a Victorian scholar .
7 Their living room was full of bags of cement , the last she had seen of it .
8 The sideboard in the M's farm living room was covered with Mothers Day cards , but on that day none of them were from Mrs M 's own two sons .
9 The living room was erm quite big .
10 Main picture : The unusual red and black chair in the living room was bought in Honolulu
11 Then the kitchen , there were the living room was er about three by , three by three I should think , maybe three and a half by three .
12 The living room was as pristine as I 'd ever seen it .
13 The living room was fitted as a command post with radio and large-scale maps on the wall .
14 Fire investigators believe the living room was doused with petrol and set alight .
15 Beyond the back sitting room was the conservatory , full of geranium pots , and piles of old magazines , and thick with dusty heat , and beyond its glass windows , the garden lay .
16 The sitting room was dark , and the fire that had blazed earlier had died down to grey-ashed coals .
17 But for the mechanical hospital bed , she might have been in a first-class hotel : the sitting room was agreeably furnished in eau-de-Nil , the bedroom in old rose ; the interconnecting rooms faced the sea over lawns and flower beds , though they were bleak at this time of the year .
18 The door to the sitting room was ajar , and a wedge of light shone out across the stairs .
19 The sitting room was a big room , with bookcases all along one wall .
20 The sitting room was on a at the stage .
21 Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings .
22 Yet the thing which struck her most of all here in the drawing room was that Harriet seemed to have a passion for photographs .
23 Everything in the apartment appeared normal until the door of the drawing room was opened .
24 Half an hour spent in his wife 's elegant and comfortable drawing room was usually more productive and a great deal more entertaining than hours spent beavering through official files .
25 The drawing room was not very convenient , because the chemist needed services such as water and gas ; and the laboratory with its wooden benches to work at , with their sinks and gas taps , high stools to sit on , and racks of bottles at hand , came into existence .
26 As a result of her research , the drawing room was turned into an authentic Victorian Gothic chamber with mustard and red wallpaper copied from a Harewood House original in Leeds City Art Gallery collection .
27 The drawing room was quite another world .
28 The sonar room was heavily insulated against all outside noise and dimly lit by subdued yellow lighting .
29 And er it used to be quite event when you saw all the queue and , and er of course with Walsall Wood you 've got the room over the shop where the Guild room was and a rest room I think for the staff .
30 The bar room was warm and inviting as always , and just enough people to be comfortable were enjoying the cosy environment .
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