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Harmony and symmetry entered English architecture with stage designer Inigo Jones, who brought the aesthetic of Palladio first to the new-build Queen's House at Greenwich and then to his replacement for the destroyed Banqueting House at Whitehall.
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The Cuban government is still considering a separate scheme that would allow foreigners to buy new-build houses around proposed golf courses on the island.
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Even if the targeted 100,000 buyers get a loan, the most likely impact will be to artificially drive up the price of new-build homes, with the buyer taking the risk and the builder pocketing the profit.
Laissez-faire has failed us. Now we're getting panicky intervention 2011
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"Yeah", he says – but those are jobs for the new-build he'll be moving into soon.
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It seems new-build teams such as these need a rallying point player, a leader who sets the tone.
Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend Barney Ronay 2010
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Last week, David Cameron and Nick Clegg launched a new-build indemnity scheme under which the government will underwrite a percentage of the loan, allowing buyers to have as little as 5% deposit – a first, even if the impact will be trivial.
For his next trick, Mr Osborne must offer us a bold new world | Will Hutton 2011
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Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs.
Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011
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Ranks of uniform new-build office and apartment buildings lined the west side, sucking every scrap of age and tradition from their surroundings.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs.
Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011
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I have even found myself worrying about Gray a little, wondering what he does in the evenings now, picturing him sloping about in his dressing gown behind his new-build gates, toothless, shrunken, detumesced in some fundamental way.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay 2011
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