Example sentences of "[art] builders " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years ago our garden was just a desolate area of rubble left by the builders : now I dread ever having to leave it . |
| 2 | Developers ' ancestors include such admired figures as John Nash , the Adams brothers together with the builders of Bath , Bloomsbury and the New Town in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | He compared the press to a scaffolding , surrounding a building under construction ( the worker 's state ) , which marked the outlines of the structure , facilitated communication among the builders , enhanced the effective assignment of tasks , and made possible a clear view of the achievements of the builders . |
| 4 | He compared the press to a scaffolding , surrounding a building under construction ( the worker 's state ) , which marked the outlines of the structure , facilitated communication among the builders , enhanced the effective assignment of tasks , and made possible a clear view of the achievements of the builders . |
| 5 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 6 | Sloth and bad organisation seem to be to blame , even though the builders are on high wages to work fast . |
| 7 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 8 | But the builders and craftsmen came from outside and talked to nobody . |
| 9 | The builders and decorators moved out and he moved in . |
| 10 | The builders worked throughout the weekend , so with their hammering and concrete mixing and loud radios , it was impossible to ignore their presence . |
| 11 | ‘ To the builders of this world . ’ |
| 12 | In the early 1960s , Alexander Thom , a retired Scottish professor of engineering , sparked off a great deal of interest and controversy in the archaeological community through his claims for the existence of a ‘ megalithic yard ’ , an ancient unit of measurement used by the builders of megalithic monuments . |
| 13 | He is clearly desperate to fit in , something which turned the renovations into an architectural method trip , with the actor flying back from film shoots to hassle the builders about saving any historical detail they could , no matter how trivial , so that the building retained its local character . |
| 14 | As we have seen , attitudes were changing even when the builders were at work in the Elephant and Castle . |
| 15 | But market forces are now making the builders listen more . |
| 16 | At a time when they can no longer persuade people to move by holding out the prospect of huge capital gains , perhaps the builders will take to design as a way out . |
| 17 | These days the only thing the notoriously fickle C2s seem capable of raising is the 10 per cent capital required by building societies before they hand over nine times as much money , which is in turn entrusted to the builders . |
| 18 | The builders do not put money in , but their labour is recorded in the value of the co-op 's assets as ‘ loan stock ’ ; they have a stake in the housing . |
| 19 | Again , the builders end up paying rent , but if they move out they get the value of their loan stock back again . |
| 20 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 21 | She 's always having the builders in to fiddle around with something or other . |
| 22 | A further reservoir at Crick had to be abandoned because of a diversion in the authorised line of the Crick Tunnel , forced upon the Company when the builders struck bad strata in 1912 . |
| 23 | This same meeting also queried , in time-honoured fashion , the builders ' account for the clubhouse as ‘ several of the prices for extras being thought very high ’ , the matter to be dealt with — also in time-honoured fashion — by a sub-committee . |
| 24 | The Duke gave his blessing to the project , placing his own marble quarries at Candoglia in the Ossola valley at the disposal of the builders . |
| 25 | Note the portraits of the builders by Vojtěch Sucharda and the tympana by Karel Dvořák . |
| 26 | Against the walls lie the two Gothic tombstones of the builders of the cathedral , Matthieu d'Arras and Peter Parler . |
| 27 | The builders marshalled their machinery , but it was l970 before the Upper School was genuinely open . |
| 28 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 29 | There is easy access to the foot of one of the buttresses where the mammoth task of construction is better appreciated and the industry and enterprise of the builders more fully admired : these craftsmen of a past age here erected a work of art that has become their own memorial and puts to shame the undistinguished concrete structures favoured by the builders of today , builders who have the benefits of modern technology yet seem too often prepared to sacrifice character to utility . |
| 30 | There is easy access to the foot of one of the buttresses where the mammoth task of construction is better appreciated and the industry and enterprise of the builders more fully admired : these craftsmen of a past age here erected a work of art that has become their own memorial and puts to shame the undistinguished concrete structures favoured by the builders of today , builders who have the benefits of modern technology yet seem too often prepared to sacrifice character to utility . |