Sentence examples for basement building from inspiring English sources

One day she'd find me in my workshop in the basement, building something from strips of fragrant, fine-grained cedar.

Assessment calculations also discourage basement building, he said; assessors value basement square footage at half the rate of ground-level space.

It shows the faces and mood of the largely foreign Taliban fighters as they are led out from a basement building onto a parade ground, and answers many of the questions as to how the uprising began.

Basement building has become a highly controversial issue in London, where some underground schemes are so cavernous they have been dubbed "iceberg homes" because only a tiny fraction of the property is now visible above ground.

In 1980, he comes to New York with his girlfriend, directing shows in church basements, building props, living in a five-story walk-up.

Many ground floor and basement buildings were completely flooded.

And on the practical side, with each little glitch that comes along — a flooded basement, a building strike — molehills become mountains.

Hunt sparked the boom in basement-building in 2008, when he decided that he would build an underground lair that befitted his status as the true Bond villain of the Blair years.

If one were less optimistic, however, one might conclude that the financial imperatives of basement-building can only encourage those who would seek to cut corners on safety, structural integrity and the minimisation of disruption.

Senate leaders planned to convene on Monday in committee rooms in the basement of a building a block away.

The water drains into building basements, where it mixes with groundwater.