Sentence examples for be blocked up from inspiring English sources

The museum is an awkward fit: the staggered floors of offices, intended to look out on to the public area, will now look into exhibition halls – or more likely be blocked up.

In partnership with the environmental engineering company Max Fordham they carefully modelled all the sunbeam paths so that no sensitive objects would ever be touched by direct light, ensuring that none of the elaborately carved windows that ring the edge of the triforium would have to be blocked up.

This bedroom space seems completely interior -- most of the windows are blocked up or painted out.

"We were wondering what this building had been, why the first-floor facade had been blocked up," he said.

But the pipes were blocked up after the second world war, because of a supposed fire risk.

"The system has been blocked up because of the problems with transfer into the Afghan system," Mr. Hammond said.

"Anytime you see our type of equipment, the road is closed, it's blocked up," he said.

She had a waste disposal unit which was blocked up and causing her drain to overflow, and called out PCS.

"If the pipes are blocked up, the sprinkler heads don't receive any water, and the lawn turns brown and dies," he said.

The work also contains the most definite Western reference to the old freshwater canal between the Nile River and the Red Sea, which was blocked up in 767.

Over the years I saw the building fall into a miserable decline as windows were blocked up and Spence's original furniture and fittings were replaced by standard local-authority issue, destroying its initial integrity.