Sentence examples for rather than concrete from inspiring English sources

Classroom walls were built from plasterboard rather than concrete blocks.

Second, you can focus on abstract properties of events and things rather than concrete properties.

Their remedies are meant to be suggestions rather than concrete proposals.

"It is a presence," he said, "but ethereal rather than concrete".

(The Economist's London office tower, a kind of softened brutalism using fancy stone rather than concrete, was listed in 1988).

This broad appeal is unique, especially because it is based on suffering rather than concrete battlefield accomplishments.

The Supreme Court of India finally cleared it in December 2010, after instructing that three-fourths of the park should remain a "green area," rather than concreted or covered in sandstone, and demanding more trees be planted in the park.

An important finding made by the researchers was that the transverse cracks intersected coarse aggregate particles; this indicates that transverse cracking occurs in hardened concrete rather than plastic concrete.

Asphalt concrete overlay rather than bonded concrete overlay is used as a typical rehabilitation method for deteriorated concrete pavement in Korea, since asphalt concrete overlay requires a shorter construction time.

Moreover, the strength enhancement due to the FRP confinement is usually based on the strength of control concrete cylinders rather than the concrete strength of the unconfined column itself.

The authority also proposes to use standard concrete in the ceiling girders of the mezzanine rather than architectural concrete, which has a finish so smooth it can be mistaken for polished stone.