Example sentences of "[art] blocks " in BNC.
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1 | The blocks which we have discussed up to this point have all been coupled with withdrawal actions . |
2 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
3 | ( You can get away with one vertical cramp per arch if you roughly joint in a horizontal bar between the blocks . |
4 | This dowel can rotate freely , which helps in positioning the blocks . |
5 | Parsytec will sell the single processing unit , about the size of two briefcases , and larger computers made up of different configurations of the blocks . |
6 | First run of plaice and some sizable dabs from Hayling Bay out to Dean Tail and along to the blocks at Southsea Pier . |
7 | Tie each section of foam in position , with one piece of string , winding it around the plastic tube between the blocks . |
8 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
9 | From then onwards we cut full-size wallpaper blocks faced with lino and passed on the blocks to Coles who printed and sold the designs . ’ |
10 | Thus , wherever one looks , one finds people engaged in the construction of the blocks that will make up the Palestinian state . |
11 | An astonishing variety of artefacts was made from flint , requiring a craftsman 's skill to chip the blocks of flint to the required shape . |
12 | Her gaze travelled round from the rusty old fort , over the salt marsh , past the blocks , sandbags and barbed wire on the beach and lingered on the mud on the near vertical sides of the channel next to her . |
13 | Round the great quadrangle the blocks towered nine floors high , each named after a famous British admiral to show which was the Senior Service after all . |
14 | ( Marshalls ) Here the texture of stone is achieved by splitting the blocks to expose the rough sandstone finish inside . |
15 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
16 | Unfortunately , as mankind became more ‘ civilised ’ , and there were more people around restricted by the blocks , they estranged themselves from Nature and their deity symbols became logic and order . |
17 | If the blocks were truly large , as Corb originally envisaged them , then they could become honeycombed hills . |
18 | The properties , all two bed units , vary in price according to whether they are detached ( £39,950 ) , semi-detached ( £35,750 ) , or a unit in one of the blocks of three in a terrace at £33,750 . |
19 | When parents are presented with the blocks from which their children must select their GCSE subjects , they realise it is now impossible to avoid choosing one , or probably two , of the sciences . |
20 | We do n't ask a Hollywood actor whether his latest blockbusting performance was fuelled by cocaine or booze ( though to be told that it was is mildly titillating ) , so why should we care how unorthodox were the preparations that preceded the athlete 's explosion off the blocks ? |
21 | As there are two types of crank rod assemblies it possible to swap complete assemblies between blocks containing different types ( ie are the blocks different ) ? |
22 | And it was a genuinely historic moment when the first tanks moved past the blocks of apartments in the Beirut suburbs , many of the buildings scorched and smashed by months of fighting . |
23 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
24 | The blocks are produced because andesite lavas are so viscous that they flow as plastic , rather than liquid , materials and consist of an outer chilled surface of solid rock with a steady progression towards increasing plasticity in the hotter , central parts of the flow . |
25 | People ran from the blocks to the lavatories and back with pinched faces and sat in their rooms wishing they had saved a little coal . |
26 | In the blocks , I thought , a sort of interior fog will be creeping out from the corners of the ceilings and under the beds . |
27 | One near the site of Young 's War Office building , one on the site of the Admiralty extension and the largest on the site of the blocks of building at present occupied by the Treasury and the Foreign Office . |
28 | By omitting the blocks to the east and west of the site that Hall had included , Manners was effectively answering Palmerston 's accusation that the Government was indulging in a ‘ mania for pulling down ’ . |
29 | Beech ( Fagus spp. ) had a similar dampening effect while plantations of oak and conifers together , provided that the blocks or strips of oak are sufficiently large , had a better developed ground flora than that under conifers alone . |
30 | The blocks of high land are masses of granite , called batholiths , except Exmoor which is made of sandstone . |