How To Use Stately home In A Sentence
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The house and its gardens are set in extensive park land and a first impression is that of a comfortable stately home.
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All over, you'll find the dramatically dilapidated shells of haciendas - the former homes of the conquistadors, where plantation, processing plant and stately home were one and the same.
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That included the SS, who held trainloads of loot stolen from churches, banks, stately homes, museums and castles from around Europe.
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Other buildings such as cathedrals and parish churches are associated with a sense of traditional Englishness, as is often the palatial 'stately home'.
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We went to a stately home in Cheshire so they could have a holiday and, on the last night, we played sardines.
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The island's only stately home is a testament to the grandeur of days gone by.
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Up till now, the practice was encouraged at stately homes around the country where "pee bales" have been deposited in secluded areas of National Trust gardens to allow male members of staff to relieve themselves.
An Ominous Story
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An undisclosed sum that could amount to millions of pounds has been found missing in the accounts of the stately home.
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For more than a month, employees at the stately home had denied all knowledge of an impending wedding, rubbishing local rumours that the island would host the occasion.
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It would be a good idea if, like Mike Priestley suggested, the building was opened up like a stately home with tour guides showing off the Victorian splendours.
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The cars are crowd-pullers and appear around the country at stately homes, shopping centres and country fairs.
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The eventual aim is to restore Swindon's stately home to its former Georgian glory.
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The grants are being offered for work on everything from thatched cottages to stately homes and castles, large and small country houses, town houses, churches, workhouses and public buildings, including an old post office.
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Sainz produced a typically uncompromising display in his Toyota Celica around the stately homes and racing circuits of the north Midlands.
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But this fine basin has not been bought for one of the region's stately homes or the palatial residence of a multi-millionaire.
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A stork had bird watchers in a flap when it flew away from a stately home.
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Couples preferring a civil ceremony are increasingly choosing an approved location such as a hotel or stately home with a licence rather than a register office.
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Like the trustees, stewards and owners of Britain's other stately homes, the Carnarvons had got used to the idea of soft-pedalling their class and privilege in favour of a workmanlike attitude to custodianship that blurred the distinctions.
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The house is fairly modest as stately homes go but I knew the gardens were outstanding as soon as I glimpsed them.
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Castles, stately homes and royal palaces comprise nine per cent of all listed buildings and industrial heritage accounts for five per cent.
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It would be a good idea if, like Mike Priestley suggested, the building was opened up like a stately home with tour guides showing off the Victorian splendours.
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At first, upstarts traded on their cockney origins; by the end of the decade any pop star worth his weight in velvet had acquired a stately home in the shires.
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The small isle of St. Michael's Mount, accessible by foot when the tide is out, has been home to a priory, castle and stately home.
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These graced stately homes, were used in libraries and by those with a specific academic interest in botany or horticulture.
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‘We are fortunate in Yorkshire and the Humber to have such a rich historic environment from high quality streetscapes, to mills, workshops, stately homes and opulent parks,’ he said.
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The eventual aim is to restore Swindon's stately home to its former Georgian glory.
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The stately home on the Richmond riverside is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Laurderdale, who lived there during the 1670s.
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There are dozens of stately homes dating from the beginning of the twentieth century; most of which are in impeccable condition.
Henequen and its role in the Yucatan's shifting fortunes
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Stately homes, luxury country pads, five-star hotels and even budget youth hostels are lining up to provide race fans accommodation.
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Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service.
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Today tying the knot is back in fashion, although the ceremony is as likely to take place in a stately home as a church.
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Gardeners serving at stately homes in Yorkshire originated the tradition of forcing rhubarb into growth.
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R&D unit - which has brought us Nicam, Teletext, DAB, colour TV - celebrated its sixtieth birthday in August but faced a staff revolt over plans to move from its stately home at Kingswood Warren, Surrey, in to White City, London.
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Every garden can teach us something, she says, whether it's the splendid formal grounds of a stately home or the riotous richness of a cottage potager.
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From today they can ride on the Ben Hall steam engine, lovingly carved out of a tree felled from lime avenue, the approach to the stately home's main gates.
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It is also one of the top attractions for the flocks of visitors who visit the Wharfedale stately home and its extensive estate and grounds.
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Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
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It was found, unframed and unmounted in an album of drawings, by Sotheby's expert Julien Stock in 1999 during a routine inventory of artworks in the library at the Vanbrugh-designed stately home near York.
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These graced stately homes, were used in libraries and by those with a specific academic interest in botany or horticulture.
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The taxi driver had parked the car in front of a minor stately home: pink brick, lots of ivy weakening the walls.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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The coat was patterned red and gold like the wallpaper in the dining room of a stately home, had a round collar and was fastened with large gold military buttons.
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Priceless antique furniture was destroyed in the fire at the stately home.
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According to the ‘RailLinks’ pamphlet, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire's stately home is down on the south coast, with nearby Bakewell on the Isle of Wight.
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Then passed 12 years of me gazing longingly at dovecotes in stately home gardens, and becoming increasingly fascinated by the metaphorical possibilities of dovecotes in my soul.
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It could simply be that the spa had stolen their excellent chef from a nearby stately home.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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The Birds of Australia, which is in the stately home's library together with Gould's The Birds of Europe and The Birds of the Himalayas, is one of the earliest attempts to describe the flora and fauna of the Antipodes.
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That included the SS, who held trainloads of loot stolen from churches, banks, stately homes, museums and castles from around Europe.
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If Lottery backing is approved, a five-year project will see the grounds of the Georgian stately home restored to their former glory.
