Sentence examples for concrete collar from inspiring English sources

Birmingham's famous Queensway, known as "the concrete collar", is being slowly downgraded.

The "concrete collar" road system remains a laughing stock to this day imposing a tourniquet around the centre which has taken decades longer to demolish than to build.

The tunnels first made their mark on Birmingham and contributed to the city's "concrete collar" when the inner ring road was built during the 1960s and 1970s.

A recent BBC News England article about the ring roads we love to hate prompted several readers to contact us with their own tales of concrete collar woe.

Most of the alluvial section of the well is lined with stone except for the uppermost 1 m, which has a reinforced concrete collar.

"But if that question had been asked in the 1960s, the tunnels and the ring road would never have been built and Birmingham would still have a beautiful Victorian city centre, all of which was sacrificed to the concrete collar of the ring road".

Wet concrete, autumnal leaves, crisp collars, and a butler's sleeves.

Designed by the London architects Future Systems, the $65 million building houses the popular retailer Selfridges and aims to bring style and dash to the old market area known as the Bull Ring, the very part of Birmingham that earned the city its reputation for strangling life and commerce in a collar of brutalist concrete.

A married father of three adult daughters, he  spent time in the blue-collar world of concrete production before entering politics in 1994.

Previous TMS studies found an increased hand-M1 activity following rather heterogeneous sets of stimuli, including action verbs related to several body effectors, nouns of manipulable objects [5], or even concrete nouns such as "house" and "collar" [34].

Hyderabad's central prison, opened in the 1800s and surrounded by high watchtowers and a concrete wall, is no country-club jail for white collar criminals.