Sentence examples for building acted from inspiring English sources
The ground floor of this two-storied building acted as a foundation for the living rooms and storerooms above.
But the manager of Broad Street Mall, Steve Fawke, said the current building acted as an "anchor" for local shops.
The building acted as the headquarters of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (MDHB) for 87 years, from 1907 to 1994, when the company relocated to new premises at Seaforth Dock.
In the aftermath of the war the building was fully restored; the cost of restoration exceeding the original construction costs The building acted as the head offices of the MDHB (renamed the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company in 1972) for some 87 years.
The building acts as an enormous bridge thanks to its Vierendeel truss system.
In this supple novel of ideas, a best-seller in France, the unschooled middle-aged concierge of an upper-class Paris apartment building acts like a stereotypical concierge, leaving the television on all day and sharing her quarters with an old, fat cat, but she secretly consumes vast quantities of literature.
An example: A regular old building acts much like a machine, powered by a central furnace and releasing sewage and other waste out through pipes.
Public school buildings acted as shelters, and were for refuge only, meaning they did not provide food, cots, blankets, medications or other comfort items.
The long, low building acts as a dam for a ten-acre artificial lake, with a wildflower meadow on one side and water on the other.
Takahiro Sakaeda, the chef who prepared two of my meals, paced the evenings with the studied wickedness of a great D.J. or playwright, building acts into the meal, replete with turning points, subplots and rising action.
There is then major public intervention, in its own way unprecedented, such as the London Building Acts, the sewerage installed by Joseph Bazalgette, council housing, the green belt, the Clean Air Acts, the protection of heritage through conservation areas and listed buildings.
