Sentence examples for fronting onto from inspiring English sources

A series of gorgeous, lantern-lit squares of tall neoclassical townhouses fronting onto communal gardens emerged to the west of the City.

The farther they got from town the flimsier and more temporary the buildings became, from the solid terraces of shops fronting onto storm drains to tile-roofed bungalows, tin-roofed shacks, and plastered huts thatched with straw, the skeletal sticks of the frames showing through the crumbled mud.

Dr Sheldon - who has himself directed many excavations in Southwark, including the Rose Tudor theatre site - believes the losses will include brick foundations, which may be from a major Roman building fronting onto Watling Street, one of the most important Roman roads whose precise route through the area has never been traced.

Further work was carried out to the east side of the college, fronting onto Turl Street, in 1756 under Thomas Pardo (principal from 1727 to 1763).

The island had a single town, Victoria, on its south coast fronting onto Victoria Harbour with a population of 8,500 and limited port facilities.

Significant Roman finds include parts of shops and houses that would have fronted onto Ermine Street, down which Roman armies marched to and from the Legionary Fortress at Lincoln.

Linwood House, which fronted onto both Linwood Avenue and Brittan Street, was registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a class D heritage building in 1982, and with a change of the classification system later, it later became a Category II listing.

Five apartments in a historic 18th-century building, which fronts onto the rue de Grenelle and includes access to a courtyard garden, offer one to three bedrooms.

While the Triangle is full of grand houses and former palaces that front onto the canals, many properties are somewhat drab in their gray or dull ochre uniformity.

Working on the long, skinny site, from Broadway to Lafayette, between tiny Leonard Street and teeny-tiny Catherine Lane, the architects grafted a new front onto the Broadway side.

Its clash is with Canada, and concerns St Pierre & Miquelon, a group of tiny islands little more than 25km from Newfoundland that front onto a shelf blessed with oil deposits.