Sentence examples for ground mainly from inspiring English sources

The remaining 400,000 square feet of retail space would be above ground, mainly in street-level storefronts at the base of office buildings.

About 480,000 square feet of that is below ground, mainly in the concourses linking the site with subway lines and PATH commuter rail lines and in the new transportation hub.

Strong-motion seismographs, called accelerographs, are designed particularly to register intense movements of the ground, mainly for engineering purposes i.e., antiseismic construction in earthquake-prone areas such as Japan.

The organisation currently has a mere 400 or so troops on the ground, mainly from Rwanda and Nigeria woefully short of what is needed to curb the violence across an area the size of France, especially since many of those troops are unarmed observers.

Two main techniques linked to different geographical areas can be distinguished: non-continuous-thread, in which the design motifs are made first and then joined together by attaching threads around them to work the ground (mainly Brussels, Honiton, and Milanese laces), and continuous-thread, where the same threads work across the lace moving from ground to motif to ground in continuity.

Inside a walled compound about 80 prisoners sat on the ground, mainly staring sullenly in front of them.

Mr. Danforth rebuked the government on other grounds, mainly its failure to tell the truth about the use of incendiary tear gas canisters.

Ford is back in the news, of course, for "Canada," his new novel, and I started that, too, before committing to "Lay of the Land," on grounds, mainly, of paperback preference.

The Kurds' seemingly impregnable faith in America is grounded mainly in desperation — they are largely friendless in the world — and in a kind of pure hope that America will behave in Wilsonian fashion after the war ends.

These disciplines have strongly relied on black box-like concepts grounded mainly on genetic principles and their statistical descriptions as a means to give an explanation to GPMs.

In medical ethics, the patient's "right to truth" has been firmly established and grounded mainly in the respect for patient autonomy, the harm of dishonesty, the necessity of informed consent for follow-up care and the importance of trust for any health care delivery [ 6].