Sentence examples for a vast block of from inspiring English sources

Below, in the sculpture court, local art students laid the rails for Svayambh, a work that would drag a vast block of wax on a freight car through the court's too-small main arch.

But for Miss Gordon an even worse influence than Miës van der Rohe was Le Corbusier, a Swiss-born architect famous for the Unité d'Habitation, a vast block of flats in Marseilles.

They now held a vast block of territory in the Welsh Marches as well as their extensive interests in Sussex and Devon.

There is a vast block of non-aligned voters who are systematically excluded from partisan primaries, where the decisions that effectively determine who will take office are often made.

Such was the case even when the vast block of a building took the name of the former governor -- in those days before New Jersey proved that anything could be put up for sale, even a name.

The CPR was a major landowner and developer within Calgary as well as a promoter of the vast blocks of agricultural land it owned in the surrounding region.

When vast blocks of palms are planted in straight lines, stretching for mile after mile, 90 per cent of the wildlife disappears.

Swathed in vast blocks of blooming rhododendron, the gradual ascents of the easy-rated routes are a scenic as well as gentle entry point to the many on- and off-the-beaten-track walks available.

The stadium's capacity has been reduced to 50,000, from nearly 80,000, and yet there were vast blocks of empty seats whose vivid yellow, orange and red color schemes made the dearth of fans at Luzhniki Stadium even more glaring.

The dwarf dogwood and the aspen shrubs produced vast blocks of tawny and canvas and beet and dried blood against the misty sky; in places, it looked like a van Gogh wheat field times a thousand, with spindly spruce filling in for Mediterranean cypress.

They are presumed to have engaged in a life-and-death struggle, a concomitant of which was the dumping on the bourses of London, Paris, & Berlin of such vast blocks of Shell shares that the market value of the combine's stock dropped 12 and a half million pounds in a single day and depreciated more than a 130 million pounds in the course of a year.