Sentences with phrase «country house was built»

The Georgian Country House was built in 1785 and has been lovingly handed down through six -LSB-...]

The country house is built in elegant, Andalusian yet rustic style with marble floors, central under floor heating, antique Spanish wooden doors and high, sloped ceilings.

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.

Motorway madness Ever wondered why some country houses are built so close to motorways and main roads?

Not exact matches

While the country doesn't use much lumber to build houses — most of China's residential buildings are made from concrete — they still ravenously consume the commodity.

No matter if it is referring to one street, one subdivision, one city, one province or even a country Average Selling Prices actually cover up ongoing price change and allow Housing Bubbles to build and agents to earn commission.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

God doesn't want you to vote democrat or republican, he wants all that lobby money they collect to be used to feed the poor, not to build huge houses to themselves and threat war on other countries.

Viewing Jesus as a country peasant who combined marginal farming with village carpentry, Legrand suggests that Jesus» work must have been in building houses which involved very little wood work since house construction those days was little dependent on wood.24 Therefore, additional farm work was inevitable for the sake of subsistence.

Brothers and sisters, when you have a government that says «we can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed based upon the theological beliefs of that house of worship,» then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and New York and throughout this country who are not going to be able to build.

Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine practices can save many, many lives?

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The Romans were big on bathing... built large public bath houses everywhere... in all the countries they controlled... but bathing in Roman society was different then what you and I do today... They did not use a soap..

The US is a secular country not a christian country.Our country was founded on the principles of freedom fo religion and seperation between church and state.I am a muslim, I can tell you that the reason men and women don; t pray in integrated environments is to avoid distractions and to focus on the prayer not because women are less than men.I personally don; t want to be praying next to a woman because all I'll be thinking about is her and not god.Jews also do the same thing in temples by seperating between men and women in temples.A house of worship is built solely for that purpose, worship!

It's rugged country, and there are enough houses and buildings on it to simulate urban warfare situations.

Potanin has also funded the Russian International Olympic University, the country's first sports - management academy, to be housed in a cluster of four high - rise buildings going up a block from the waterfront in central Sochi.

However, the Department for Local Government and Communities (DLGC) has rejected this analysis, saying the surge in single - person households, and a drop - off in the amount of new homes being built, is the main cause of the country's housing problems.

Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted districts.

That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

«There are some economic benefits, but this puts a big strain on house - building, schools and local services in some parts of the country,» he said.

«Government must build more social housing across the country to help those already on housing waiting lists and the many thousands more who will be in need as the recession bites.

«He wants you to believe that the housing crisis in our country can not be fixed in the way that Labour has consistently called for, and even colleagues in his own Cabinet have argued for, by increasing investment to build more housing.

«For us to build the country of our dreams, for us to make Nigeria a truly great nation, a nation that is able to feed and house its citizens, a nation with a stable currency, we must embrace science and technology.

We can take out our anger on elected representatives in Westminster but whoever is in Government in London can not remove or reduce VAT, can not support a steel plant through troubled times, can not build the houses we need where they're needed and can not deport all the individuals who shouldn't be in this country.

And it is an act of class war to assault the social architecture — the welfare state, the NHS, the principle of equality on education, accessible justice, decent housing — that our forebears fought for, built and that we, the people of this country, have paid for through our taxes and have kept dear for generations because we know that these are what underpin a fairer, better Britain.

«As promised, House Minority Leader John Boehner, along with Reps. Aaron Schock (R - IL) and Peter Roskam (R - IL), huddled this morning with representatives of the most powerful conservative business and trade groups in the country to field policy ideas and build a legislative agenda ahead of the November elections, when Republicans could retake the House.

Cllr Egerton said that Cornwall was ahead of most of the local authorities in the country in adopting it's Local Plan so even though Cornwall is actually currently behind it's house building targets it was catching up fast and was still ahead of most.

In every international survey of our country, our failure for a generation to build new housing and new transport has been identified as a major problem.

Javid said: «The housing market in this country is broken and the solution means building many more houses in the places that people want to live.»

Hon Shagari, who is also a Member of the House Committee on Electoral Matters, said the visit was to seek the Commission's cooperation in building virile democratic institutions in the country through sustainable capacity building.

So although there are many infrastructure projects in other parts of the country, the stimulus from house building would mostly effect the south east, which is not where it is mostly needed.

Entire new towns and cities must be built across the country to tackle Britain's housing crises, Nick Clegg said

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

Elizabeth Hausler is founder of Build Change, a non-profit organisation which designs and helps to build earthquake - resistant housing in developing countBuild Change, a non-profit organisation which designs and helps to build earthquake - resistant housing in developing countbuild earthquake - resistant housing in developing countries.

And while we didn't end up moving to Belize (this Irish girl can't handle their seasons: hot, humid, and hurricane), we are completing the build of our 230 - square - foot tiny house on wheels that we plan to tow around the country as part of our new, location - independent lifestyle.

Called on by his country to unite with acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), to chase down stolen nuclear weapons, the duo commandeers all manner of military hardware and personnel in pursuit of a madman who, at the end of the day, is firmly convinced that he is doing the right thing by detonating the one remaining rogue bomb in his backpack near the United Nations building in New York City.

So he gambles all he's built on the «Swedish nightingale», opera singer Jenny Lind (Ferguson), who hypnotises him and threatens his marriage, and a high - class tour of the country's opera houses.

Adam (Baldwin, Working Girl) and Barbara Maitland (Davis, Quick Change) love the little home in the country they've built for themselves, but after they are killed in a freak accident and come back as ghosts, they are appalled to find that their house has been sold to a tasteless and unpleasant family, who plan one tearing down all they've built to redo the house in the tackiest way possible.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 3 - Where I Live 1, covering countries, local area, houses, rooms, furniture and home activities.

This time of year can be incredibly stressful for estates departments up and down the country, as universities are struggling to house students through no fault of their own due to massive budget cuts and delays in refurbishment and new build projects.

Many well - heeled students find themselves in a «community - service Olympics,» as he calls it, jetting off to an exotic country to build houses for a week and signing up to be treasurer of five or six clubs when they return.

Participants included Nissan employees and automotive journalists from all over the country who were invited to roll up their sleeves and help build a house.

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.

I know it sounds odd to think of Egypt, an African country, as cold but trust me, in houses built to stay cool with no heating systems and plenty of marble and ceramic flooring, you feel as if you are living in an icy mausoleum during the winter.

General Chiang Kai - shek, the country's leader, had welcomed him warmly and even built a house for him according to Lin's own design; Madame Chiang was very fond of Lin Yutang and especially of Liao Tsuifeng, Lin's wife.

Only later did we discover that the mask had been purchased in the notoriously mysterious country of Haiti, and that our house had been built on the edge of what was originally a cemetery.

These publishing houses are the foundation from which we have continued to build and brand some of the most internationally known Christian resources, translating into nearly two - hundred languages and distributing into more than one - hundred countries.

They're completely different: mobile homes haven't been built since the mid-1070s, while manufactured homes currently lead affordable housing trends all over the country.

Those who remain live in a landscape of fallendown buildings, burned - out houses, strip clubs and urban prairie with one of the highest crime rates in the country and countless free - roaming pet dogs and unwanted strays, nearly none of whom are spayed or neutered.»

The South Lake Animal League is Lake County's smallest humane society, but it's getting a big publicity boost from a national magazine for dog lovers.Canine aficionados across the country and in Canada are learning about the league's plans to build its first shelter because the group was profiled in the December issue of Dog Fancy.Members of the South Lake Animal League - which relies on foster homes to house unwanted dogs and cats until they are adopted - are thrilled about the page - long article.