Sentence examples for construction like a from inspiring English sources
A bulky construction like a telescope by Olafur Eliasson offers a banal kaleidoscopic view out a window.
He remembers a slow-breaking revelation: "I thought, O.K., music can be a construction, like a movie or like a book.
When viewed through the illuminating frame of a fine performance it dazzles both with its light touch and with its sturdy construction, like a cathedral made of spun sugar.
This gap in knowledge makes earthquake prediction a frustrating and chancy exercise, and complicates the effort to calculate the risk that a human construction like a water reservoir or a geothermal power plant could inadvertently set off a deadly quake.
Government officials here point to a slew of new projects under construction, like a hydroelectric dam, hundreds of miles of new roads and an emergency power plant as evidence that they are rebuilding the country.
Mr. Anderson, at Prudential Douglas Elliman, said units could be had for $1,200 per square foot but added that in rare new construction, like a highly regarded brick building at 211 Elizabeth Street, prices were $2,000 per square foot or higher.
"It's commercial-scale construction, like building a Wal-Mart in the heart of a quiet residential neighborhood," said Martha Karsh, who lives with her husband, Bruce, just east of the site.
Constructions like "A nadder" or "Mine napron" were so common the first letter was assumed to be part of the preceding word.
To date the Linden Lab engineers have built sample structures like stores, office buildings and castles as well as more surreal constructions like a workable chessboard and a hockey rink.
Among his other important projects were the architectural design for the Osaka Expo '70 -- with constructions like a giant space frame, known as the Theme Pavilion -- and the Festival Plaza, completed in late 1966.
But I think there's merit in thinking about our character constructions like a profile being delivered over the course of a piece of writing.
