Sentence examples for which is surmounted from inspiring English sources

Two gilded infants support the clock, which is surmounted by a happy Cupid.

The archive building, which is surmounted by several floors of flats, is an intriguing, partly menacing structure in an industrial area of Basel.

Pere Ubu's singer, David Thomas, agrees that this is a pretty good description of the band's music, which is surmounted by squalling, untempered synthesiser and his own squawking vocals.

The thoracic uncini of F. stellaris consist of a large rostrum, which is surmounted by several spines of the capitium.

The badge for the prelate shows the Lesser George encircled by the Garter, which is surmounted by a bishop's mitre.

Although clearly a redbrick suburban house, it is massive, picturesquely composed, with a prominent tourelle for the staircase and which is surmounted by a conical roofed turret".

The north south-trending Benorth south-trendingich are surmounted Bengkulu Mountains extinct volcanoes, run parallel to the coast and traverse the length of the province.

The present-day mountain is a composite of three succesive volcanoes: at the bottom is Komitake, which was surmounted by Ko Fuji ("Old Fuji") and, finally, by the most recent, Shin Fuji ("New Fuji").

The first survey of Göbekli Tepe was begun in 1963, by Peter Benedict, an archeologist from the University of Chicago, who described the site as "a complex of round-topped knolls of red earth," two of which were surmounted by "small cemeteries," probably dating from the Byzantine Empire.

Cicero describes visiting the tomb of Archimedes, which was surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder, which Archimedes had requested to be placed on his tomb, representing his mathematical discoveries.

The four-level "Castle on the Hill", which was surmounted by a 150 ft (46 m) tower and designed by architects Buckler and Fenhagen, cost almost $3,000,000 and accommodated 2,500 students.