(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
(18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
Builder
Definition:
(n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(2) This is all the more tragic in view of the fact that Correa sees himself as a builder of the nation state.
(3) You can actually create, be a builder and you can make things.” Wozniak’s faith in the power of education is no empty rhetoric.
(4) I’ve been a builder, doorman, worked in factories, I play rugby.
(5) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
(6) The therapist must be prepared to act as both advocate and bridge-builder for the patient, with the patient's increasing participation.
(7) Sure, he has been doing the chat-show circuit in the US this past week to promote his latest sitcom, Bent (no relation to the Nazi homosexual persecution play – it's an Amanda Peet vehicle in which she may or may not go to bed with her builder).
(8) He said there were "jobs for doctors, nurses, architects, builders, even for street cleaners in the Islamic State".
(9) Better days....." silkpurse – Neville Brothers Yellow Moon: "Spent most of one summer as a builder listening to the Neville Brothers "Yellow Moon".
(10) Hold the champagne back for now - from a nation of bankers to a nation of builders?
(11) Today was the first part of the discussion and a relationship builder between Mr Trump and President Peña Nieto.
(12) But again, many in the industry are concerned the recovery could be snuffed out, with the National Federation of Builders pointing to threats to the housbuilding as mortgage lending stagnates.
(13) Shimon Peres, president of Israel, praised Mandela as "a builder of bridges of peace and dialogue who paid a heavy personal price for his struggle in the years he spent in prison and fighting for his people".
(14) The homes will be funded by lifting obligations on house builders to also provide affordable homes or build new infrastructure, such as roads or health services.
(15) The trio of Glaswegian builders buying me drinks comprised half the audience.
(16) Limited research information is available on the training programs and dietary practices of competitive male and female body builders.
(17) Although 5.5% of a property's value has been suggested by some sources, with another 3.5% contributed by builders and 5% by the borrower, this would mean the lender would still be liable for 86% of the value.
(18) Anglo Irish Bank, which was the preferred lender for property speculators and builders, epitomised the rise and ignominious fall of the Celtic Tiger economy.
(19) We need our Stephen Hawkings, but we also need Bob the Builder, firefighter Sally, Ned the nurse, soldier Salim and postal worker Patu.
(20) For developers and their dependent ecosystem of estate agents, architects, lawyers and builders, it has been a one-way super-bet.” About £15bn of investment is pouring into the Nine Elms area, which is directly across the river from super-swanky Chelsea but was until recently wasteland, sheds and warehouses.