It's an unusual construction, and clearly a metaphorical one, but perfectly reasonable.
Yet on a spring afternoon, something unusual — construction work — was going on.
Part of the book's appeal lies in its unusual construction.
There is an ingenious flexibility to the unusual construction, rather like the overlapping plates of a suit of armor.
Ivan loved the unusual construction, and asked the architect, "Think you can build another?" When the architect answered in the affirmative, Ivan blinded him.
In 1958, an American U-2 spy plane flying over Israel spotted an unusual construction site near the small Negev Desert town of Dimona.
"It is an unusual construction, but it gets them to citizenship in the same time as the administration plan," said Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The movie, written by Kelly Masterson, has an unusual construction: it reaches a climactic moment, then jumps back a few days to lay out the story from the point of view of one character or another.
A case in point: The first free-standing hospital project in New York State in more than two decades, according to the state's Department of Health, is being built in Middletown, using an unusual construction method to cut costs by almost a third.
It highlighted inept border officials who allowed one of his wives to pass into Iran, inept municipal officials who failed to spot the unusual construction at his house, intelligence officials who hoarded information, and senior police officials who it deemed guilty of a "grave dereliction of duty".
