| 词汇 | example_english_country-house |
| 释义 | Examples of country houseThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The entire series ought to find a place on every countryhouse bookshelf. And part of the fun of having a countryhouse was to visit everyone else's. Until recently, however, neither architectural nor social historians have paid all that much attention to the origins of the countryhouse. Building and visiting houses kept many families busy, but what exactly did one do in a countryhouse? The polite tourist : four centuries of countryhouse visiting. One cannot help feeling that the countryhouse is simply a place to be milked for the book they are writing. Certainly for most of the twentieth century the countryhouse was regarded as a liability. The curse of the countryhouse is their cost. In the early twentieth century the magic lantern, and then private cinemas, offered new forms of entertainment which made few demands on the skills of countryhouse visitors. We went laboriously through all the figures of countryhouse and agricultural estate expenditure, failing completely to find any point at which economy was possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sometimes they have to sell the contents of a countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have in mind, for example, persons who own a countryhouse with, perhaps, 500 or 1,000 acres around it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sometimes they are in a camp and sometimes they are in a countryhouse, where the inmates can be engaged on agricultural work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, it is not only the house and its contents but the outdoor recreation which a visit to a countryhouse can provide. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or is an attempt made in a kind of countryhouse interview to find what his underlying qualities of character are? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he stop treating this as though it were a private thing to be decided at a countryhouse party? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The money goes not only on buying the countryhouse, and buying its contents, but above all on endowing it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have only a modest countryhouse and the lighting was only for the house, not the stables. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is quite unfair to leave one unfortunate small organization in a countryhouse to deal with all the troubles that arise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my opinion, and in the opinion of many others, the charm of a countryhouse, whether it be a home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For example, the owner of a large countryhouse may have promised to take school children in time of war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would much prefer to see them displayed in a great countryhouse which could be visited at leisure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not going to make an appeal ad misericordiam as a member of the depressed class of countryhouse-owners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am under no fear that my countryhouse is going to be seized. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both excerpts emphasise the point that countryhouse owners with land are in a unique position to provide recreational facilities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This relationship between the landed estate and the countryhouse is important to appreciate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They should have regard to the small town house, the small countryhouse, the mill and the row of cottages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But not every countryhouse is suitable for the same treatment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The phrase is more likely to produce an image of an institution or a countryhouse than a mobile home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or again, if necessary, he could have been removed, as apparently has been done, to a countryhouse, but kept under duress. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is a man who owns a pleasant and quite large countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That which is pre-eminent in a provincial countryhouse is not necessarily pre-eminent in a great national institution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They discovered, after three visits to one countryhouse, that there was a disconnected basin in the bathroom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Get some countryhouse and take most of them there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can be proud of our high quality countryhouse hotels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are expected to be a peculiarly large number of very special objects and countryhouse contents and so on coming available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a condition of sale is that the buyer has completely to demolish the property, the price of the countryhouse becomes much less. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They take no decisions at the countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The maternity hospital of 28 beds is provided in an old converted countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On one occasion, we came to a large countryhouse, deserted because the owner had recently died, but still full of valuable furniture. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A freeholder owns a substantial countryhouse in four acres of attractive parkland. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a question of a countryhouse being done over, with a few inexpensive additions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are talking about the kind of countryhouse which can be bought almost anywhere, putting a fence around it and installing a few telephones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These figures were given to me by a retired high civil servant living in a comfortable countryhouse on a comfortable pension. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The large countryhouse has been shut up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The countryhouse life in the 19th century was undoubtedly gracious and spacious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have forgotten the name of the other countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I refer to the countryhouse burglary syndrome. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Between the wars was the age of the countryhouse weekend. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Certain advantages are claimed for the countryhouse method. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The countryhouse has always been the heart and nerve centre of its estate and its agricultural land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is possible to put a lot of people in the ordinary countryhouse, if one is so minded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some derelict countryhouse cannot economically or properly be taken over and adapted to the needs of an institution of this sort. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am thinking in particular of the smaller countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Like a major fire or a break-in of a countryhouse, pollution disasters are the kind of thing one hopes will not happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I declare an interest as a joint owner and administrator of a small countryhouse and garden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing more expensive to keep up than a countryhouse, unless possibly it is a cathedral or parish church. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A second countryhouse which would accommodate about the same number of girls has been selected and negotiations for its purchase are in progress. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why cannot some countryhouse be bought—some of them are going for next lo nothing—and these women transferred there? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is too ludicrous for words that in countryhouse hostels it is not possible for children to be admitted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps we are talking about a restaurant, an art gallery, a stately home, a countryhouse, a library or someone's garden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Portraits painted by local artists of considerable talent often adorn the houses of lairds and of the squirearchy, and they are part of the countryhouse scene. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot say, for instance, that in this countryhouse sales are not subject to capital gains tax because everybody's own house is not subject to capital gains tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a period countryhouse which was built in 1778, and it was a happy thought to combine the function of helping miners and preserving a beautiful countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does she believe that we have been living on the moon or perhaps in some great countryhouse or palace shielded by hordes of retainers and servants? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The object is to find a large countryhouse and an estate, develop them, and then argue that the station cannot be closed down because it provides a social service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you take a countryhouse, with possibly only a small village near it, there is, of course, no available accommodation in which the officials can live. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For example, do they give a certificate to a rich old man living in a countryhouse who also needs lots of heat for medical reasons? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My sympathy is for the living countryhouse, still inhabited by the family, not for the dead or dying countryhouse, sad as that may be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some years ago it took over a large countryhouse for the purpose of dealing specifically with agricultural students, and there, in embryo, were the possibilities of an agricultural university. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no good blinking the fact that the countryhouse, whether it be large or small, is doomed unless some strong action is taken to save it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is perfectly true that if one can give tax relief in this direction one would be resolving a great many of the problems in the countryhouse context. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this whole question of preservation there is a tendency to think in terms of the substantial countryhouse and what is now known in the jargon as "the stately". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We in this country have a great heritage of country houses, which has always been much strengthened by the links which exist between the countryhouse and its estate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may well be that some estates will suffer from it and will have to be broken up and their chattels dispersed; and another countryhouse will have gone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Groups of houses in terraces, and individual houses, in towns present difficulties different from those of a countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The substance is the countryhouse of the middle size which has not to date attracted sufficient effective measures for the relief from the burden of taxation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An order for a countryhouse for two cwt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He should consider that in the light of the exhibition three years ago of the destruction of the countryhouse, which so graphically illustrated the plight of the countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Few who have experienced the lack of atmosphere in a countryhouse, bereft of its family heirlooms and furniture, would deny the logic of this policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 During the 19th century, many houses were enlarged to accommodate the increasing armies of servants needed to create the famed countryhouse lifestyle. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The term "villa" was used to describe a countryhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are three public houses and a motel in close proximity to the village; and a countryhouse hotel with a leisure centre. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He built a countryhouse on his property surrounded by flower and kitchen gardens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The will gave their land and countryhouse to the county, and specified that would be used for passive purposes (e.g., no sport fields). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a countryhouse was built on the site. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His biggest inspiration was his father, who is a chef in a local countryhouse hotel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It has been substantially extended and remodelled since then and is now a countryhouse hotel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His close friends stuck by him, but he retired from public life and spent the greater part of his time at his countryhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The hall was built in the 18th century, possibly based on an earlier 17th century house, and as of 2014 is a countryhouse hotel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The building is now a countryhouse hotel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He would have a large countryhouse or mansion as his residence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A criminal gang search for stolen diamonds stashed in a countryhouse following a major robbery. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The remaining buildings were converted into a countryhouse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She built a modern countryhouse on the site of the old seat which incorporates the doorway reclaimed from the ashes of the burned house. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His familys countryhouse is there, looked after by a solitary housekeeper. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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