Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "belles_lettres" ¶ 540
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

said and architect
It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.
The authors said that this occurs because they were built to local regulations that required specific features, but freed the architect to adapt them to particular situations.
An associate of Pei's said later that he never saw the architect so involved in a project.
She is the niece of Lin Huiyin, who is said to be the first female architect in China.
Regarding exterior design of the Senate area, designer Syd Dutton said director " Stuart Baird wanted us to think about Albert Speer, the architect who did all the conceptual drawings for Hitler.
One of Wren's friends, another great scientist and architect and a fellow Westminster Schoolboy, Robert Hooke said of him " Since the time of Archimedes there scarce ever met in one man in so great perfection such a mechanical hand and so philosophical mind.
Landscape architect Michael Gotkin recently said that Nivola had taken the traditional mediterranean essence of the ancient graffiti and translated it into modern terms.
The Capitol dome's architect Thomas U. Walter, had previously visited Les Invalides, and is said to have been struck by it.
A well-known 77-year-old architect from the Alumni Association in Taipei also said that strength lies in unity and that Fudan alumni are expected to serve as an example in the increasing mergers of higher learning schools in mainland China.
In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Keno D. Rosa ( which is Don Rosa's actual name ).
Of another Arcesius, an architect, Vitruvius ( vii, introduction ) notes: " Arcesius, on the Corinthian order proportions, and on the Ionic order temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands.
The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random ; the architect said that " the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light ".
The Montauk Club in Park Slope, Brooklyn ( 1889 ) imitates elements of the palace's architecture, although the architect is usually said to have been inspired by another Venetian Gothic palace, the Ca'd ' Oro.
The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random ; the architect said that " the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light ".
Built in Romanesque Revival style, the bank ’ s structure is said to be influenced by Louisiana native and architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra " La Rotonda " near Vicenza, due to the fact that architect Colen Campbell had offered Lord Burlington a design for a Villa very closely based on the Villa Capra for his use at Chiswick.
The main building, designed by William Beatson, was said to be a " miniature of Eton ," the architect being an old Etonian.
Even more famous than SAPPI is the Fagus Werk, rebuilt in 1910-1915 after the blueprints of architect Walter-Gropius, what is said to be trend-setting for modern architecture.
But this was a man so much out of the ordinary that I said ... No, you are almost thirty, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics.
He had a reputation as an exceptionally humane leader and trainer of men ; it is said that when new buildings were being constructed at the camp and the architect asked him where the paths should go, he told him to wait some months and see where the men walked, then put the paths there.
She was built in 1845 to a new design by the American naval architect John Willis Griffiths who is said to have based his design on the owner's previous ship Ann McKim.
The cemetery is said to have been landscaped by architect William Tite, but this is disputed.
His son, architect Alan Lapidus, who worked with his father for 18 years, said, " His theory was if you create the stage setting and it's grand, everyone who enters will play their part.
The Board instructed its superintending architect, George Vulliamy, to value the site: however, Vulliamy was old and left practically all of the work to his subordinates – Goddard and Robertson ( it was said by the Deputy Chairman of the Board that " Mr. Goddard and Mr. Robertson were Mr. Vulliamy ").

said and might
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
As if divining my thoughts, the girl Songau smiled warmly and said in the casual tone an American woman might use in describing her rose garden:
Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.
`` I might try it one of these days '', Jack said wonderingly, thinking of Miss Langford.
`` Preferably '', said Carl, `` one battered and worn, such as might be found in a pawnshop ''.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
It is made up of tumbling, which might be said to start with a somersault, run through such stunts as headstands, handstands, cartwheels, backbends, and culminate in nearly impossible combinations of aerial flips and twists and apparatus work.
This might be said to be an upper- or an upper-middle-class bias, but the Commission published as one of its staff studies a book by Byron S. Hollingshead entitled Who Should Go To College??
And what news, Sarah thought as satirically as Maude might have said it.
Always provided that Lucien himself had not dosed her coffee with opium, she thought, as coldly and sharply, again, as Maude might have said it.
I think he might be '', Conrad said grimly.
The jurors said they realize `` a proportionate distribution of these funds might disable this program in our less populous counties ''.
While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.
Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.
Dr. Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even for a high school where there were lots of cars `` might not be realistic and would not work ''.
In one large oversimplification, it might be said that the Belgians felt, far too late, the gale of nationalism sweeping Africa.
It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.
`` You might treat it like the hiccups '', said Papa.
Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.
For example, after having established that the set X contains only non-empty sets, a mathematician might have said " let F ( s ) be one of the members of s for all s in X.
For example, a certain landowner might have been said to own 32, 000 acres of land, not 50 square miles of land.
One legacy not drawn from the Group was anonymity, which came about due to AA wishing to avoid the publicity-seeking practices of the Oxford Group and to not promote, Wilson said, " erratic public characters who through broken anonymity might get drunk and destroy confidence in us.
As the election to maintain an accused person's right to silence prevents any examination or cross-examination of that person's position, it follows that the decision of counsel as to what evidence will be called is a crucial tactic in any case in the adversarial system and hence it might be said that it is a lawyer's manipulation of the truth.

0.261 seconds.