Sentence examples for functioning places from inspiring English sources

Along with his particular notion of the history of art, Pevsner brought with him one overarching idea that is now outmoded: the concept of buildings as chilly artworks, rather than peopled, functioning places.

"Cathedrals are some of the top historic buildings in the country but they are also functioning places with worshippers and visitors," he said.

"All the procedures are set up for sort of functioning places with long time horizons," not countries facing chaos and desperate need, said Mr. Pritchett.

"So, in one scenario, 50 years from now, New Guinea and parts of the Amazon will be the best functioning places in the world because the rest of us will be dead or incompetent".

It's also a functioning place of worship.

"It could really take them back to the olden days when it was a real, functioning place".

Slough: if hell was a real place, no cartoonish fire and brimstone, no screeching demons with molten tridents, but a functioning place with the departed and damned living side by side trying to get along under Satan's oppressive gaze, Slough would be the model.

I was coming to that – just a moment, Thea – if anyone's at the impaired functioning place in their cycle, just say, and we'll do our best to accommodate, right, Des?

"Town centres are the lifeblood of our communities, functioning as places of social interaction and enterprise.

Contrary to the prevalent view, then, enzyme function places severe constraints on residue identities at positions showing evolutionary variability, and at exterior non-active-site positions, in particular.

This new solvation free energy function places an emphasis on the fact that an organic solute molecule can be stabilized in solution as a consequence of the coordination between the solute-solvent interactions and the stabilization of its internal structure.