Sentence examples for lightly constructed from inspiring English sources

"They are quite lightly constructed," Pollard explained.

Such homes are very lightly constructed and begin to come apart at relatively low wind speeds.

Having been in the vanguard of soft, lightly constructed feminine clothes, Alber Elbaz has given Lanvin a somewhat harder sci-fi edge with shiny fabrics that look quasi-synthetic.

When the entire coiled, lightly constructed shell of Spirula sinks into the body, the animal has internal air spaces that can control its buoyancy and also its direction of swimming.

In the 1980s an increasing proportion of Europe's internal COFC traffic used the swapbody, or demountable, which is similar in principle to, but more lightly constructed, cheaper, and easier to transship than the maritime container; the latter has to withstand stacking several deep on board ship and at ports, which is not a requisite for the swapbody.

Like the skull, our body skeleton is lightly constructed, with a slender, parallel-sided thorax matching a narrow pelvis below.

Sitters place their fingers lightly on a specially constructed heart-shaped piece of wood known as a planchette and proceed to address questions to the spirit world.

Real earthquakes have, indeed, demonstrated that buildings constructed with large lightly reinforced walls, characterised by adequate area respect to the floor extension, could suffer lower damages in comparison with traditional RC framed buildings.

As a means of more economic operation over the lightly patronized Port Adelaide system, four 'Birney Safety Cars' were constructed by J.G. Brill and were imported complete by the Municipal Tramways Trust.

This study is of a relevant importance to structural concrete members that are constructed without transverse reinforcement such as slabs, footings, joists, and lightly stressed members.

These lines can then be sketched in lightly to aid in constructing the direction field (see Graph).