The walls, known as Changcheng – literally "long walls", but often translated as "Great Wall" – were mostly constructed of tamped earth, with some parts built with stones.
The engineering structures are mostly constructed directly in contact with the ground and the response between the soil and the structure is termed as soil-engineering structure interaction.
The houses, mostly constructed of warped wooden slabs stuck together with adobe cement, did not stand a chance against the force of the mudslide.
Lyddington itself is steeped in history, and was mostly constructed during that history from orange ironstone topped with grey slate or thatch, all fastidiously maintained and presented.
They are mostly constructed out of materials from the Dean – wood, stone and iron.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Bryan Center and Sands Building were constructed with mostly brown and tan stones from Pit No. 2. The still-active Pit No. 3, which opened before Duke's recent flurry of construction, has produced largely blue and gray stone now going into the Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center and Hollows Residence Hall.
"Big Brother" throws a group of 10 people, mostly in their 20's, into a new house constructed with cameras and recording equipment everywhere to document their every move.
Gradually, continuing through various administrations and mostly on a nonpartisan basis, a security and economic commons was constructed, with important leadership from the United States, from which everybody benefited.
The giant was constructed with material evoking the beach culture of Huntington Beach, composed mostly of wood, with life rings for ears and part of a boat for a foot.
