Sentence examples for old dwelling from inspiring English sources

It doesn't provide a "2 for 1" government "binding guarantee" (to use Goldsmith's earlier term) but instead places an obligation on boroughs to ensure that "at least two new affordable homes are provided for each old dwelling [sold]" as part of an agreement allowing them to keep more of the proceeds of the sale of their council homes to help them meet the cost.

The heavy proportion of elderly persons in the district may be attributed to the settled way of life of those residents who arrived during the building boom of the 1960s: the children of these residents moved elsewhere to live, leaving their parents in the old dwelling.

Early 20th-century census returns show that many of the old dwellings had been converted to lodging houses.

Some of those who built new homes overlooking the caves made sure that there were no windows facing their old dwellings.

"The architecture of the old dwellings is a blueprint for much of the quintessential sophisticated Japanese architectural design famous from the 1700s onwards".

ONE of the fine old dwellings that have been demolished on Staten Island was the Edward J. Bonner house, a shingle-style home with Queen Anne elements.

Voloshin's Koktebel still exists if you know where to look, in the back streets, in a handful of old dwellings.

In western North America it is most common in mountainous areas around old dwellings and abandoned mining operations.

Bakuo may also be most vulnerable because of the higher proportions of poor people and old dwellings with poor ventilation, small living spaces and low comfort level.

Other steps to reduce heat stress include upgrading infrastructure in communities, improving the quality of existing old dwellings and increasing public green spaces and parks.

Packard Music Hall and the John Stark Edwards House (1807), the oldest dwelling in the former Western Reserve, are in the city.