Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.
As a building material, pise is infinitely superior and more durable than slabs, galvanised iron, or weather-boards.
The first arises from the scarcity of building material; the other from the cost and difficulty of transport.
One word should be added in regard to soft chalk as a building material.
Important as the adaptation of the clay soil of Babylonia for simple construction was for the growth of Babylonian culture, the limitations to the employment of bricks as a building material are no less significant.
This simplicity, due in the first instance to the lack of stone as building material in Babylonia, corresponded to the very simple character which the dwelling-house retained.
The text at this point becomes defective, but we can still make out that the clay as building materialis created by Marduk, and that he constructs houses and rears cities.
A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like.
Intending immigrants to Montevideo were each offered free transport from Buenos Aires, plots in the city and holdings in the Campo, two hundred head of cattle, one hundred sheep, and free cartage of building material.
Within the past ten years concrete has grown into much importance as a building material, especially as reinforced with steel.
As a building material it is strong, durable and easily divided.
The pressed blocks of which they are built show the new freedom conferred by concrete as a building material.
Edison and Other Uses of the Newest and Yet the Oldest Building Material of Civilized Peoples, Seen By the Boy and His Scientific Friend.
Downey, Prussing and other builders for "conspiracy" because they had been prominent in securing the co-operation of the dealers in building material, and a refusal to sell and deliver pending the strike.
In fact, the Italian pastes are so high in protein, or tissue-building material, that they very readily take the place of meat.
While it is safe to say that cereals are chiefly valuable for their starch, the tissue-building material in some grains, although in small proportion, is in sufficient quantity to place them with the protein foods.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "building material" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
