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  • The look on my face must have betrayed my disappointment because he added hastily: "I'm in bathroom fitments, not ornamental cornicing, or anything."

    Gareth Southgate, Capello's job, and the art of ruling oneself out | Harry Pearson 2011

  • Hogarth Architects The use of traditional materials, like the oak in the mezzanine and kitchen and the elaborate cornicing, offset modern features like the glass walls, stark white colors and poured rubber floors.

    London Bachelor Pad 2010

  • The inherited interior – also previously an office – was not particularly grand, but any standout details were to be retained (such as marble mosaic floor tiles in the entrance area, a number of marble-inlaid fireplaces and highly detailed ceiling cornicing).

    Manchester Square Interior by SHH 2009

  • Coldwell Banker Australia Ms. Holley used detailed cornicing, designer lighting and porcelain tile floors throughout the home.

    Paradise Auctioned 2010

  • What he was looking for was high up in one corner, just below the cornicing: a laser-activated motion sensor.

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • They copied the cornicing, pictured here during the renovation, from the original.

    Dublin Restoration 2009

  • What he was looking for was high up in one corner, just below the cornicing: a laser-activated motion sensor.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005

  • Expensive cutlery, crockery and cooking utensils were stored in shiny white cupboards, with the lighting hidden in strips behind cornicing.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • Expensive cutlery, crockery and cooking utensils were stored in shiny white cupboards, with the lighting hidden in strips behind cornicing.

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

  • Siobhan agreed, staring up at the ornate cornicing.

    Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004

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