Sentence examples for under a building from inspiring English sources

"It's a formidable challenge to build under a building," says Rodney Gibble, a Manhattan-based structural engineer who says he's working on a growing number of basement expansions with swimming pools, gyms and small basketball courts.

"There is only so much you can dig out from under a building before it becomes unstable," he said.

Sinkhole Swallows Building: An enormous sinkhole opened up under a building complex in China's southern city of Guangzhou Tuesday, swallowing five shops and one building.

Before a claim under a building design defect can support invoking the immunity exception, such a design must more directly cause the injury at issue.

One officer remembers seeing a looter running around under a building like an outfielder trying to get under a fly ball.

According to Russian media reports, one of Mr Maskhadov's captured followers had led the Russian troops to his hideout, a concrete bunker under a building in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, noftheof the Chechen capital, Grozny.

During the engagement, his team came under fire from a building not far from their position.

Under the law, a building can be demolished only if two-thirds of its residents approve.

Under normal conditions, a building's walls, columns, and beams primarily experience only vertical loads of compression.

A frantic search for survivors is under way at a building outside the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, which collapsed, killing at least 147 people.

Editorial assistance was provided through participation of one of the research team in the "Writing for Publication" workshops under a NHMRC Capacity Building Grant "Making a Difference – Building Research Capacity for Health Interventions to Improve Aboriginal Health".