Sentence examples for the building lines from inspiring English sources

All the building lines are straight.

Many of them don't even let us do setbacks to vary the building lines, so we work with a lot of square boxes".

This desolation includes the increased prominence of sounds, like the constant soft roar of the surf and the jets leaving Kennedy International Airport with a sky-tearing whooshing whistle as they appear at regular intervals, rising over the building lines and arcing off into the dark blue sky, headed out over the Atlantic.

Use a transit or building level to make sure the building lines are level and square, and check by measuring corner to corner, diagonally, to make sure the walls and corners are square.

In 1929, new building regulations allowed higher structures if they were behind the building line.

Central calculate their mileage from the building line of Grand Central on E. 42nd St.

Because the muscular brownstone porch at the corner projected beyond the building line, it bit the dust.

Most likely, the decking between the building line and the tip of the prow will have to be removed.

The addition has a prowlike bay projecting about eight feet beyond the building line, with steel decking on each floor.

In January, the mayoral Design Commission approved the latest phase, which includes eliminating the dark recessed entryway by building a new glass wall almost flush to the building line.

"The average structure put up on this site would no doubt have shot up flush with the building line," The Edison Monthly magazine said in 1917.