Sentence examples for stone to construct from inspiring English sources

He used brick from England and local stone to construct a manor house with a grand allée, originally of elms and now of sugar maples.

The first Europeans to occupy the town were the Portuguese in the 17th century; they razed the temple, using its stone to construct a fort.

A quarry at the Delph supplied building materials for the region, including the stone used to construct Brindley's aqueduct.

While the odds ratios (coefficients) from the multivariate regression analysis can be used to estimate the probability of an event (in this case ureteral stone), we sought to construct a more straightforward scoring system for clinical use without the use of complicated calculations.

Hearst stipulated the stones be used to construct a group of museum buildings adjoining the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.

In 1999, some of the stones were used to construct an outdoor reading terrace adjoining the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, part of the Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park.

A striking example was at Ras Mkumbuu, where the earliest mosque was leveled (and turned into a cemetery), and some of the stones were used to construct a grand Friday Mosque on the beach.

Here, stone has been cut to construct American icons like the Lincoln Memorial, the Empire State Building and the Pentagon.

It begins by summarizing the accomplishments of the preceding seismological observations, which provided the stepping-stone ideas on how to construct the first strong motion accelerograph.

Sinan's mosque is a breathtaking solution to the problem of how to construct from stone a single symmetrical space topped with domes and semi-domes.

The original plan was to construct a stone wall 10 Roman feet wide (a Roman foot is slightly larger than a standard foot) and at least 12 feet high for the eastern sector and a turf rampart 20 Roman feet wide at the base for the western sector; both were fronted by a ditch, except where the crags rendered this superfluous.