Sentence examples for chief building material from inspiring English sources

Timber was the chief building material during the Han dynasty; it was used to build palace halls, multi-story residential towers and halls and single-story houses.

Wood was the chief building material for domestic purposes and for temples, but only the terra-cotta decorations survive.

Its facade is built of fine-grained gray tufa from Nuceria, the chief building material of this period.

Most early buildings of the Fatimid period were of brick, although from the 12th century onward stone gradually became the chief building material.

The chief building material of the church is buff sandstone, which came from the Goodrich Quarry (also called the Greystone Quarry ) in the Almaden area of San Jose, was delivered by train and rough-cut in the university Quad.

The building material is stone, and the chief characteristic is that of mass.

Main industry: Building materials and real estate.

A tainted Judge Philip Tunoi is being investigated by a special sitting of a body -- the Judiciary Service Commission -- whose former Chief Registrar Gladys Shollei and seven former senior officials were charged with irregular procurement of building material i.e. tenderpreneuring!

It's a building material.

Chief building surveyor, Corporation of London.

Maybe the concrete blocks were only a convenient building material.