Sentence examples for ordinary fire from inspiring English sources

But it was brought to a standstill by a different kind of chain reaction: ordinary fire.

Did the jet fuel play a central role or would an ordinary fire have also led to collapse?

Once we reach the second floor, vertical movement becomes much more conventional: ordinary fire stairs connect the gallery levels, and most movement from floor to floor is likely to be by elevator.

A bathetic poet such as Lewis Theobald might write an overblown rendition of someone lighting an ordinary fire: "Bring forth some remnant of Promethean theft, / Quick to expand th' inclement air congealed".

Now, Mr Shekau appears to have undermined the government's claims: "You said it was an ordinary fire, but it was me in that fire," he said in his video.In laying claim to the bombing, Boko Haram has exacerbated concerns over its ability to reach deep into the south of the country.

For the people on floors above the crash site, there was another critical factor: an ordinary fire would take two or three hours to burn through the gypsum wallboard around the stairwells -- but projectiles of plane wreckage almost certainly pierced through, letting in the fire and smoke.

Installations, like the Random International studio's Swarm III, were commissioned for otherwise neglected spaces and what might have been an ordinary fire-escape became, thanks to Jim Eyre's design, the beautiful ceramic galleries bridge.

The towers were built to withstand the stresses of hurricane-force winds and to survive the heat of ordinary fires.

While those materials are routinely tested under conditions typical of ordinary fires, their effectiveness at the much higher temperatures of last week's catastrophe is generally unknown.

Although the fireproofing was intended to withstand ordinary fires for at least two hours, experts said buildings the size of 7 World Trade Center that are treated with such coatings have never collapsed in a fire of any duration.

For example, some say that nanodiamonds are common in ordinary geological formations, and that magnetic particles could come from ordinary fires.