(n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
(n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
(n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Burglary
Definition:
(n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
(2) He let me in on the night of the burglary, he hid keys and codes throughout the building.” Claiming he did not know Basil’s identity, Jones, who has contacted Sky before, said he would not reveal it in any case as “it’s not a done thing where I come from”.
(3) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(4) Anderson Fernandes, 22, appeared before magistrates in Manchester charged with burglary after he took two scoops of coffee ice-cream and a cone from Patisserie Valerie in the city centre.
(5) This dramatic fall has been repeated across nearly every category of crime, including the big "volume" crimes such as burglary and car break-ins and thefts where better security and alarms have brought about even deeper falls in the crime levels.
(6) The young person was involved in two house burglaries, smoked cannabis everyday, didn't attend school, had physically assaulted her mum and wasn't attending any structured positive activities.
(7) A group of Spanish tourists seemed indifferent to the fact that at a table a few feet away, four men plotted a burglary that captured Britain’s imagination.
(8) A police officer attended the scene of a burglary in progress and, following a pursuit through the house with his gun in hand, short the burglar in the back of the head.
(9) The men, aged 59 to 75, received prison terms ranging from six to seven years as they were sentenced at Woolwich crown court for their roles in what prosecutors called the biggest burglary in English legal history.
(10) People sitting out in the desert aren’t talking amongst themselves about how, ‘Joe Bloggs received a mandatory sentences for a ‘three strike’ burglary, I better not do the same thing’.” Collins said the legislation would compound recidivism rates for Aboriginal people in WA jails, rates which he said were already “astronomically high”.
(11) Anyway, to return to Anthony: he would plead guilty to theft but not burglary, and he had a co-defendant who wanted to plead not guilty altogether.
(12) The interim report found that out of a sample of 2,551 incidents that should have been recorded as crimes officers wrongly failed to record 523 of them including sexual offences, crimes of violence, robbery and burglary.
(13) Police said that between 60 and 70 safety deposit boxes were opened during the burglary.
(14) "The circumstances caused George to think he might be a robber or do something bad because of what had gone on," she said, referring to a recent series of burglaries in the development.
(15) During his teens and twenties, he did time in various prisons, borstals and detention centres for car theft and burglary.
(16) We do have clients who if they are going out for dinner will come to the facility and put on a necklace, and then come and bring it back the next day.” High-value customers are increasingly using vaults because they fear aggravated burglary in their own homes, he added.
(17) Carl Wood, 59, was jailed for six years on Wednesday for his role in the £14m burglary in London’s diamond district during Easter weekend last year.
(18) The former head of Derbyshire CID told the Guardian that Clarke's plan to increase the discounted tariff for rape when assailants admitted guilt to 50%, alongside crimes like robbery and burglary, downplayed the severity of the offence, in turn inviting officers to investigate it less thoroughly.
(19) Reader, the oldest of the seven men convicted of the multimillion-pound burglary in London’s diamond district, had returned to Belmarsh prison’s hospital wing after a period in the critical care unit of Woolwich hospital after a stroke, Scobie said.
(20) Ian Wright tweeted after the burglary: 'You won't get away with it.'