Sentences with phrase «british country house»

Even better, the academy is run in a British country house, for an extra dose of Jane Austen.

It has been said that the most enjoyable lifestyle in history was British country house life in the years between the wars.

Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001): Altman's last great film, this upstairs / downstairs story of a cacophonous weekend gathering at a British country house showcases everything the master did best: There's slyly funny class analysis, deceptively casual overlapping dialogue, and an ensemble of marvelous actors given free rein to improvise and create.

Not exact matches

During a House of Commons debate on 7 July 2009, Davis accused the UK government of outsourcing torture, by allowing Rangzieb Ahmed to leave the country (even though the government had evidence against Ahmed, upon which Ahmed was later convicted for terrorism) to Pakistan, where it is said the Inter-Services Intelligence was given the go ahead by the British intelligence agencies to torture Ahmed.

«The House will agree that the BBC World Service performs an invaluable role, reflecting British democratic values overseas and supporting British influence in the world, and that the services it provides are a beacon to many in some of the poorest and most insecure countries in the world.

The Countryside Alliance believes a vibrant countryside needs five key changes and calls on the Government to: SERVICES — Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport and broadband network HOUSING — Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 HOUSING — Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 834 163

HOUSING: Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION: Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING: Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport HOUSING: Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION: Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING: Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport housing EDUCATION: Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING: Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport network

The House of Lords had voted 189 to 152 to reinsert a motion removing the US from the list of countries not required to present evidence to extradite a British citizen.

«As the only Chinese speaker in the House of Commons, a former diplomat, British trade commissioner [for] China and the former founder chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, I see part of my role in parliament to offer an informed perspective on that very important country,» he said.

Any Australian would be entitled to sit in the British parliament - House of Commons or House of Lords, by virtue of being a citizen of a Commonwealth country.

«I would prefer not to be better off and have a country that didn't go to 75million, where young people could aspire to buy house and where British families could get jobs and a decent standard of living,» he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

As in most countries with a British heritage, the speaker presides over the lower house of the legislature.

The latter type of research, in which human cells or tissue are integrated into animals, was given the green light in the United Kingdom in October 2008, when the British House of Commons approved a bill that expanded the country's rules governing work with human embryos.

With the enthusiastic support of the scientific community, the British House of Commons has overwhelmingly approved a wide - ranging bill that expands the country's rules governing work with human embryos.

It employs the genre of the classic British murder mystery, as defined by Agatha Christie: Guests and servants crowd a great country house, and one of them is murdered.

Edna O'Brien was born in 1930 in western Ireland, where her parents lived in a picturesque stone house called Drewsboro, built on the remains of a fancy country house her father had helped burn down so the British couldn't use it during the Irish War of Independence after World War I.

British Columbia led the country in economic growth in 2016, supported by a particularly strong year in manufacturing and housing.

Discover the romanticism of the historical country houses, royal palaces and ancient castles of the British nobility, cosy down in the warmth of the picture - perfect Cotswolds, ramble in the blustery wilderness of the Scottish Highlands, and experience world - class cuisine and excellent museums and galleries in the buzzing urban hubs.

The restoration of De Vere Wokefield Estate is part of a wider multimillion pound development project across the De Vere Country Estate portfolio, which will position the mansion house back at the heart of each property to celebrate their unique British history.

With 46 elegant rooms, housed in both the main hotel and lodge, a 2 AA rosette restaurant serving our own seasonal produce, this is the perfect British country retreat.

That display — still in existence — was shaped by the National Gallery of Art's «The Treasure Houses of Britain» exhibition of 1985 — 86, which presented British decorative arts in a series of alluring room sets inspired by country, and occasionally town, houses.

Keys to the House is the very essence of domesticity, images of Teller's friends and family from around his British country home, while Men and Women offers a study in the ages of man.

Palladian architecture was able to flourish in England though, as it was suited to the great country houses being built or re-modelled; because unlike the French, the British aristocracy placed primary importance on their country estates.

Under his chairmanship BP has sponsored many of the leading cultural institutions in the country including Tate, the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Theatre, Royal Opera House and Almeida Theatre, as well as many smaller projects across the UK.

They will be showing a range of work from a splendid measured drawing of a Corinthian column by Francis Terry, influenced by one of Palladio's drawings in his Quattro Libri, to models and drawings of projects and built work affirming Palladio's importance in the development of subsequent British architecture, especially the country house, with contemporary examples by Quinlan Terry, Julian Bicknell, John Simpson and Robert Adam Architects.

's importance in the development of subsequent British architecture, especially the country house, with contemporary examples by Quinlan Terry, Julian Bicknell, John Simpson and Robert Adam Architects.

Built in 1843 in the style of an English country residence, Wave Hill House, a former estate house on Wave Hill's 28 acres, has been home to such luminaries as Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Arturo Toscanini and two British ambassadors to the United NatHouse, a former estate house on Wave Hill's 28 acres, has been home to such luminaries as Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Arturo Toscanini and two British ambassadors to the United Nathouse on Wave Hill's 28 acres, has been home to such luminaries as Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Arturo Toscanini and two British ambassadors to the United Nations.

It is clear from his correspondence that Napoleon was envisaging some sort of genteel retirement like that of his brother Lucien, who was living in a country house under the supervision of a single police inspector; but this was never realistic, and the captain of the Bellerophon wrote specifically «I have no authority to agree to any such arrangement... I can not enter into any promise as to the reception he may meet with» [from the British Government]; Napoleon decided to surrender nevertheless.

· And according to Precarious: Temporary Agency Work in British Columbia, the rate of growth of short - term positions is significantly outstripping that of permanent ones: http://www.macleans.ca/economy/realestateeconomy/the-vacant-truth-about-rental-condos/ According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., the federal agency that insures lenders against mortgage losses while simultaneously serving as one of the main sources of real estate data in the country, the vacancy rate for condo rentals is just 1.3 per cent — about as close to zero as you can get.

Major markets in Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba experienced the country's highest price increases, with double - digit gains seen across all three housing categories, says the report.

The Secrets of Chatsworth, Secrets of Althorp (and so on) and Escape to the Country (it's British House Hunters but better).

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RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects, scours the country each year in pursuit of the UK's best new house before crowning it with its annual House of the Year thouse before crowning it with its annual House of the Year tHouse of the Year tiara.