Sentence examples for concrete beginning from inspiring English sources

There's no concrete beginning and end.

The EPA decision in 2010 released the river from the stranglehold of local agencies that had treated the river as a storm drain since the Army Corps of Engineers channelized it and lined most of it with concrete beginning in the late 1930s.

Prior to the introduction of air-conditioning, concrete began to replace wood as walling material.

Two other workers were on the ground beneath the scaffolding when the blocks patched with concrete began to collapse.

." Then the cold air, the low sun and the rhythm of feet on concrete begin to intoxicate.

There, a handsome Weimaraner trotting up and down and into the mounds of brick and concrete began to bark, a sign that he had found something or someone.

After Christ Church, beautifully proportioned grids of snowy concrete began to appear - at Corpus Christi, Oxford (1969), at St John's, Cambridge (1967) and at Queens College, Cambridgee (1976).

During acid rain concrete begins to lose its mechanical strength that lead to cracking, weight losing and finally, destruction of structures.

"Take it down," said the current mayor, Ed Remsen, and applause broke out among the bystanders as the concrete began to crumble on the third blow from the wrecking machine.

The powerful and pervasive influence of water on the performance of Portland cement concrete begins with the removal of water from either moist or wet raw cement feed and ends with application of curing water.

For starters, when materials such as metals and concrete begin to fail, they typically show signs of stress and fatigue, such as small cracks.