Example sentences of "builder ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could have it done professionally , he supposed , wearily imagining a pile of builders ' estimates . |
| 2 | Doors with wood or aluminium frames are widely available from builders ' merchants and timber yards , and you can either do the work yourself or call in a local builder to do it for you . |
| 3 | If you want to save money and fit your own patio doors , builders ' merchants and timber merchants offer a small range of standard-sized doors . |
| 4 | The businesses include two in waste disposal — essentially landfill operations — two in quarrying , two in the manufacture of scientific instruments plus a chain of builders ' merchants and a maker of specialised grouts . |
| 5 | In practice , the proprietary liquids which are used in the pressure-vacuum impregnation of timber against fungal attack also contain insecticides and effectively identical products are available through builders ' merchants and DIY outlets for brush and spray application on site . |
| 6 | My parish priest had always dreamed of building outstation churches and , with the luxury of two curates , here was his chance to convert one into a builders ' labourer ! |
| 7 | Those sectors closest to the housing market , including builders ' merchants and retailers of furniture , carpets and household goods were the most pessimistic . |
| 8 | Those sectors closest to the housing market , including builders ' merchants and retailers of furniture , carpets and household goods were the most pessimistic . |
| 9 | Alan Titchmarsh ponders on when builders ' junk became ‘ architectural antiques ’ . |
| 10 | The biggest change has come in office building , particularly in London , where in 1989 and 1990 the City , West End and Docklands were full of cranes , hard hats and builders ' wolf whistles . |
| 11 | Builders ' standardised products are slated as boring and overpriced . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They piled up bricks and pulled out nails in our builders ' yard of a back garden , had a roaring bonfire every other night , and went to Nan 's for a bath . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Damian ffrench-Farce , their ‘ brilliant , totally undiscovered ’ interior designer , scoured dozens of builders ' yards , hunting down just the right sort of town-house brick , thrown out in the course of demolishing other houses of similar vintage ; when the supply ran out , bricks were made specially for them by local craftsmen . |
| 16 | DETERRED by a quotation of £3,000 for the work , Four Marks Parish Council have decided not to get the mound of earth and builders ' rubble which has accumulated at the village centre levelled . |
| 17 | In 1828 , for example , when Coleman was sadly in need of an operating theatre , the various builders ' estimates were so high that the project was abandoned ‘ for the time being ’ . |
| 18 | A tale of a weird wedding present , a subterranean mass of builders ' ruddle , two toilets , Monica Seles first serve , and a half finished love letter . |
| 19 | It would also be a good idea to replace any unscreened cables over 2cm long with screened cable , and also screen the internal control cavities with adhesive backed aluminium foil ( obtainable at builders ' merchants ) . |
| 20 | Flexible alkathene hoops , available from builders ' merchants , secured to each side of a bed with a cover of heavy-duty polythene , make a simple cold frame for protecting frost-sensitive shrubs and newly raised annuals . |
| 21 | Vehicle Builders ' and Repairers ' Association , Belmont House , Gildersome , Leeds LS27 7TW. 0532 538333 |
| 22 | Take very careful measurements before buying your replacement through a builders ' merchant or fireplace specialist . |
| 23 | You 'll find local suppliers listed in Yellow Pages under Quarries or Sand and gravel suppliers , or you can ask at your local builders ' merchants . |
| 24 | We read and experimented until we could stride into builders ' suppliers and ask for one-way cistern inlet valves , 1.5 mm triplecore insulated or three-inch steel angle brackets , just as though we had been born knowing all about it , like men ! |
| 25 | Try local builders ' merchants and garden centres for stocks . |
| 26 | Buy from builders ' merchants . |
| 27 | Start by looking at the stocks carried by builders ' merchants in your area . |
| 28 | When she 'd moved in , it had been no more than a yard full of builders ' rubbish . |
| 29 | I therefore decided that I would use one of the 4′ water tanks available from builders ' merchants as the vat , and add a smaller 18″ water tank to this for the filtration |
| 30 | Information Builders ' EDA/SQL product enables both IBM SQL-based databases and IBM hierarchical databases to exchange information . |