Sentence examples for modern builders from inspiring English sources

She paused, & then told us of an ancient catacomb unearthed by modern builders in Naples.

The harpsichord was revived in the late 19th century, and it continues to evolve but not necessarily to improve in the hands of modern builders and composers.

Modern builders have taken note: Taiwan's Taipei 101 and  the Citicorp Center in New York use hundreds of tonnes of concrete or steel to do the same job.All this has the potential to make newer buildings safer.

For this reason, some modern builders, particularly those building instruments specializing in polyphony rather than Romantic compositions, avoid this unless the architecture of the room makes it necessary.

A Victorian writer was especially caustic when talking about the architecture: "Montagu Square and Bryanston Square are twin deformities, [which were built by] economical modern builders... [to] dispose of with profit to those who wish to live near the great".

Setbacks are the bane of the modern builder.

Like any corner-cutting modern builder, the ancient stonemasons who built Stonehenge lavished the most work and best materials where they would be first seen –shining in the last light of the setting winter solstice sun, or at dawn on the longest day.

It was resurrected in the twentieth century by modern state builders who made it a capital of tolerance, prosperity, and Arab nationalism -- only to be ruined again by a dictator and his wars and further destabilized by American occupation.

Equally haunting is that the harmonica's only modern American builder disappeared without a trace three years ago.

Meanwhile the expansion of the club is being managed from the Charlemagne building in Brussels.It is easy to see common elements in the Roman and the Carolingian empires that might appeal to modern-day builders of Europe.

This tendency is not simply found among the great early modern systems-builders.