"build" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Officials say the huge loss of life would be preventable is there was more money to build shelters and embankments.
- President Mitterrand is pushing for a program to build embankments and take other flood-prevention measures.
- The Yuan dynasty was waning, and the emperor forced enormous teams to build new embankments for the river.
- Beginning in the 7th century, these tribal units built many fortified structures with earth and wood walls and embankments, called gords.
- The second part was to build embankments both below and above the barrage to hold the river within the defined channel.
- Their task was to build embankments in order to divert the rivers.
- They built high embankments against the flows of the river, and called their new settlement Tai-Ngon (meaning "embankment" in Cantonese).
- He said it would take $14 billion to build embankments where they would be needed in India.
- While Bangladesh waits for international action, the Government has been building embankments around low-lying areas of Dhaka to protect the capital and its airport.
- During that time, the Shizoo built embankments along the perimeters of their islands.
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