Sentence examples for british bricks from inspiring English sources
Rich Hong Kong investors have been ploughing money into British bricks and mortar for decades, snapping up off-plan apartments at weekly property fairs that can then be rented, flipped, held as investments or used as second homes.
At first blush, it might sound mad to imagine a Conservative-government introducing a wealth tax, let alone a wealth tax that threatens the money tied up in British bricks and mortar, a form of wealth that many Britons consider pretty much sacred.
So far, his proposed solutions include curbing immigration by entirely bricking up the Channel Tunnel "with British bricks", making Alex Salmond the First Minister of Norwich "so he can get to understand what being ignored by the rest of the country is really like" and elevating South Thanet's status to the country's new capital, with a demilitarized zone separating it from North Thanet.
It's a British brick and we're using millions of them to build homes.
British missionaries introduced brick-making to the island in the 1820s, and French industrialist Jean Laborde used stone and brick to build his factories over the next few decades.
Now there is the infamous article by British journalist Samantha Brick making the erroneous statement that "being fat signifies failure".
There's a can't-look-away controversy simmering over a British writer named Samantha Brick who keeps writing columns extolling (or is it bemoaning?) her own beauty.
It hasn't got to the stage of throwing bricks, but the British don't like tax avoidance.
Every NHS leader, and every MP, knows how attached the great British public is to the bricks and mortar of their local NHS.
In general, resemblance nominalists hold this: for instance, chosen red paradigms usually include typical red objects like tomatoes, British post-boxes and certain bricks that are chosen precisely because they are typical red objects (Price 1953, 20).
