Sentence examples for timber from inspiring English sources

Libya's boat builders are frustrated because the onset of civil war cut deliveries of timber from Egypt.

The bones of the original garden were retained, including the pergola, to which timber beams were added.

A simple timber box, it showed how the rambling concrete terraces of the Southbank Centre can be enlivened with nimble intervention – proving they don't really need to be smothered with giant glass containers of shops and restaurants.

I read for a degree in materials science and, afterwards, began working as a damp and timber surveyor.

The final proposal sought to delist a smaller area of 74,000 hectares but was met with strong opposition from environmental groups, the Tasmanian state government and representatives of the timber industry.

However, specialty timber suppliers and the federal government hope the request will be granted when Unesco meets in June.

The specialty timber sector has consistently voiced opposition to extensions of the world heritage area and the TFA.

Andrew Denman, the president of the Tasmanian special timbers alliance, said his industry welcomed the potential delisting because a "very significant proportion of the specialty timber resource was locked up without any consultation" by the Tasmanian forest agreement and extension of world heritage areas.

"There's an ideological opposition from ENGOs [environmental non-government organisations] to harvesting specialty timber," he said.

Denman said as soon as the TFA was enacted "the taps were turned off" on specialty timber supply.

"Freedom of speech seems to be a very selective tern for Tony Abbott, it doesn't apply to trying to silence people trying to tell the truth in international markets about the sourcing of timber.