Sentence examples for spectacular construction from inspiring English sources

Despite the spectacular construction, the place has just enough beds for Mr. Mullin and his family.

I quickly recognized that although this spectacular construction had some European antecedents, it was not a copycat of any monumental installations in Europe or anywhere else for that matter.

Although the castle was intended as a secure bolt-hole for Thomas of Lancaster should events go awry in the south of England, it was however "clearly not an inconspicuous hiding place", as the English Heritage research team have pointed out: it was a spectacular construction, located in the centre of a huge, carefully designed medieval landscape.

My favorite building is Parliament (Kossuth Lajos tér 1-3, V), a spectacular neo-Gothic construction built in the late 19th century, during the glory years of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

More spectacular than general road construction was the development of the highway system.

To thread new subway tunnels through this tangle requires both brilliant engineering and construction, and spectacular amounts of money.

His train hunting mission – which he officially launched in 2005 – has coincided with one of the most spectacular bursts of railway construction in history; an immense engineering project that some compare to the 19th-century railway boom that helped make the US the world's leading economy.

Akong Rinpoche threw himself into the construction of the spectacular temple, mixing mortar and laying bricks, and when it opened in 1988 the building was a vivid sign that Tibetan Buddhism had arrived in Britain.

Reportedly, the institution's dealings with Tishman Speyer, the powerful real-estate company that manages the Chrysler Building, is being probed, as are the terms of a hundred-and-seventy-five-million-dollar loan taken out for the construction of a spectacular new building opposite Peter Cooper's.

This cinematic construction highlights the spectacular impact that the AMNH caveman dioramas have had on public perceptions of anthropology and the museum.

Her mother also wore "spectacular" hats, taking 40 "enormous constructions of straw, velvet or fur, like frigates under sail or birds on the wing, embellished with vast bows, ribbons or ostrich feathers", to the seaside at Brighton or Felixstowe.