Sentence examples for buildings amount from inspiring English sources

Can we prove that buildings amount to more than walls in a maze?

The area's 635 buildings amount to an embarrassment of visual riches for both the casual stroller and the student of architecture.

The direct costs to society from air pollution, including damage to crops and buildings, amounts to 23bn euros a year.

Let us consider the following: More than a decade ago, visionary business entrepreneur Moishe Mana acquired a complex of abandoned industrial buildings, amounting to a million square feet, in Jersey City.

The larger replacement costs, largely involving construction of an antenna and transmitter room at the Empire State Building, amount to $2.5 million, WNYC officials said.

Living in an abandoned building amounted to camping indoors.

The silver-haired academician has spent a lifetime studying the history of his beloved country and for him the statue-building amounts to a "very useful" exercise.

The mortgage was written as if the annual net cash flow from the building amounted to $4.9 million, when in fact the building was generating only $3.2 million then and is bringing in only $1.9 million now, Realpoint said.

Mr. Holl's initial concept — a formal design will be created in the coming months — features three connected pavilions south of the existing building, amounting to 60,000 square feet.

Given the Supreme Court's recent solicitude for property rights, the claim by Lake Tahoe property owners that a long moratorium on building amounted to an uncompensated "taking" of property seemed a likely winner.

The latest incarnation of Smolny, whose classes take place principally at St .Petersburg University, a few miles from the original blue-and-white convent building, amounts to a call to the new Russia to opt for the liberal culture of the West rather than lurch into some new authoritarian foray.