Sentence examples for building against which from inspiring English sources

Dark; just one track, one light and the station building against which a man leant, smoking a Gitane Mais.

Like everything Mr Ando designs, this project invites meditation and contemplation.The new buildings face the Kimbell Art Museum, the finest post-war building in Texas, and the building against which any new architecture in the state will be measured in the current museum-athon.

To the east are considerable remains of baths — a large octagonal building, an apse against which the church of S. Maria delle Grazie is built, and several heaps of débris.

The selling price for the two buildings was $4.4 million, against which the seller, the Corelli family, the original owner, made a charitable contribution to the school of $1.5 million.

Key indicators for the end of the first ten years of institution building serve as a baseline against which to benchmark the impact of later developments.

Correct or not, these intentions at least provided architects with a yardstick against which individual buildings could be measured.

These words which I first heard my instructor Christine D'Ercole say have generated a whirring, whooshing background against which I am building a new landscape.

This requires building a dataset of hydrological state variables against which the modelling output can be tested.

They grasp at nation-building, that make-work scheme of internationalism against which any people, however pathetic, are bound to fight.

The Palestinian suicide-bombings against which Israel says it is building its wall are scarcely mentioned in its verdict.

Our findings reveal the great utility of building a well-populated, species-level reference barcode database against which to compare unknowns.