Sentence examples for blocks lying from inspiring English sources

Squatting on the floor made of thousands of tiny timber blocks, lying on benches, tapping away at laptops, talking together inside and outside a vast refectory, they seem to be perched like fledglings on some kind of ultra-modern rockface.

By using an optimized implementation and a synthetic connectivity matrix that exhibits a perfect structure of equal-sized blocks lying on the main diagonal, we can closely relate the achievable computing performance to the size of these diagonal blocks.

The blocks lying between the deep-seated faults are also deformed by the right-lateral transpression.

Mass blocks lying on the floor are used to simulate the seats, giving a total carbody mass of about 34,000 kg.

Stumbling blocks lie everywhere.

Whole blocks lie beneath waters that have swallowed stop signs as easily as skipping stones.

The New Era's four-floor blocks lie close to the boundary on the Hoxton side.

Behind the apartment blocks lie a patchwork of Shiite communities where residents, repressed like other Shiites under Mr. Hussein, are mostly friendly to the Americans.

Like Brooklyn Heights, its more storied neighbor to the north, Cobble Hill is one of the borough's oldest neighborhoods, and most of its blocks lie within a historic district.

Even after the pound's decline on June 6th, it remained higher against the euro than when the election was called.Formidable road blocks lie ahead for Mr Blair.

It is a gleaming beacon of prosperity, a monument to Rotterdam's rude economic health – built at a time when scores of such office blocks lie vacant across the city.