Sentence examples for a house upon from inspiring English sources

With Tevez, City were always attempting to build a house upon sand.

The structure cannot have been elaborate, probably little more than a house upon a low eminence with log ramparts.

She had inherited a house upon the death of her father and managed without skimping on what she earned as a piano teacher.

Dismissing Hong Kong as, "a barren island with hardly a house upon it," he replaced Captain Elliot for not choosing a better prize in peace negotiations with China during the First Opium War.

Throughout the Bush years, I carried an awkward brick of language around with me — "Blackwater" and "levee" and "jumpsuit" and "Enron" — and that was not a language I wanted to build a house upon.

But if you're one of those people who religiously avoids all known carcinogens, then maybe it's worth considering a house upon a hill (as long as it's not in a city, because the polluted air there will give you cancer too).

If you have a house foreclosed upon, will you be doubted if you are raped?

I have put in a bid for a house high upon Dartmoor with glorious views and an Aga.

These are all symptoms of a painful disease, a Continental depression born of the realization that EU prosperity is a house built upon sand.

But what most experts agree upon is that the assessments of housing values, the judgment of a house's worth, upon which taxes are levied, should change.

Drainage around a house generally depends upon two things: grading —the slope of ground — and properly functioning gutters and downspouts.