Sentence examples for building ruined from inspiring English sources

The exterior is an exact replica of the 17th-century building ruined by RAF bombing in 1945, and has components of the original façade.

Soane's architectural style was inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, and what he most wanted was to see his own building ruined like the temples of the ancient world.

"When you get over half a million people in the streets in Hama with not one life lost when the security forces are absent — not one governmental building ruined — then the claims of the Syrian regime prove simply false and the world sees this for what it is: a people's peaceful revolution".

All of my hard work was gone--my bees, my garden, our building, ruined.

A few weeks ago, Springfield, Mass., was rocked by a natural gas explosion that destroyed a building, ruined a city block, and was hailed as a miracle because no lives were lost.

Robert Georgio, a builder of high-end houses, was weeks away from opening a new design showroom in Rye when 30 inches of water poured into his building, ruining several crates of custom cabinets and sleek appliances.

Grand buildings ruined by war and neglect have been restored.

Russian planes today bombed the Georgian city of Gori, near the South Ossetian border, leaving apartment buildings ruined and ablaze.

One idea, put forth by a group of researchers, calls for preserving some of the buildings ruined by the recent tsunami to serve as permanent reminders of the waves' destructive power, much as the skeletal Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima warns against nuclear war.

The abbey was disbanded and the buildings ruined during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII.

The period of the Wars of Independence (1296 1357) saw a large number of ecclesiastical buildings ruined, including Melrose and Jedburgh Abbeys.