"construct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sadly, it's under threat of losing its quaint character, as shoddily constructed buildings are thrown up all around it.
- The construction boom destroyed the city's green belt and villas that gave it architectural grace, to make way for characterless and shoddily constructed apartment blocks.
- The brazenly titled and shoddily constructed play "The Nerd" by Larry Shue raises other questions as well.
- Mr. Brochet, the architect, said unexpected problems arose because, despite the Orangerie's elegant neo-Classical exterior, it was in fact constructed shoddily.
- Many of them were shoddily constructed studios and one-bedroom units that, when financial trouble hit, were left to languish on the market.
- The probe was triggered after an employee said officials had ignored his warnings that the roof of an authority-owned office building in Coram was shoddily constructed and could collapse.
- Close to town, the buildings were mostly houses: shoddily constructed things, thrown up four hundred years ago when Simka was going through a period of overoptimistic expansion.
- It was also based, he said, on the extremely low survival rate in the cities' shoddily constructed buildings.
- These would-be residents were ready to pay more than a third above market price for the privilege of living in houses so shoddily constructed that they might not be standing in 20 years.
- In the powerful conclusion, Geremio dies when a building's shoddily constructed walls collapse.
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