The designer, who draws walls orfurnitureor writes captions, never specifies the significance of his or her actions.
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Items such as luggage,furnitureand equipment are generally described as 'noncount' nouns, and are used as being grammatically singular.
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After a club or bar had been raided officers subjected the floor, cloakroom, andfurnitureto meticulous scrutiny.
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The model includes walls, the floor, the ceiling, windows, doors and some heavy pieces offurniture.
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Where possible,furniturestands forward from the walls and up off the floor, giving it sculptural form.
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All the items offurniture, and even most of the properties, various bibelots, remain the same, although sometimes their function changes.
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In addition, the forest sectors produced such value-added products as veneers, woodchips, andfurnitureproducts.
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Thefurnitureelements occupy the house much like the occupants - lounging about, leaning against walls or columns, or sitting around the edge of the room.
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The specially designedfurniture, for instance, and the carefully designed cast-aluminium handles, sanitary fixtures, and light fittings all enhance the overall architecture.
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Some icons representingfurnitureof this agent database are shown on the right-hand side of this panel.
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The human bodily limbs were also set as small-scale determinants in measuring clothing,furniture, and decorative features.
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Telephone set-up andfurnitureand fittings costs amounted to an aggregate capital outlay of e11,988.
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By denying the house andfurnitureto the children, older people could break the upward economic spiral in the family.
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Accordingly, fringe is rarely found on men's clothing or on thefurnituredesignated for male spaces.
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The community ' inherited ' domestic utensils,furniture, and clothes, together with money and sometimes property, from the nuns' families.
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Collocationswithfurniture
furniture
These are words often used in combination withfurniture.
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antique furniture
She said that he would inherit all herantiquefurnitureand his two daughters would inherit the house.
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fine furniture
She buildsfinefurniture, and only in the act of building can she function in her craft.
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furniture maker
I appreciate that there will be situations like the one mentioned of thefurnituremakerwhere this seems a little unfortunate.
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