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Because they grew so straight and tall many house-builders liked them for post and beam structures.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Because they grew so straight and tall many house-builders liked them for post and beam structures.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Because they grew so straight and tall many house-builders liked them for post and beam structures.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Because they grew so straight and tall many house-builders liked them for post and beam structures.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The big house-builders, of course, want new housing at any price no matter how poorly designed, built and located – often miles from community facilities, bus routes and the social amenities that add to the vitality of urban neighbourhoods.
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Housing minister Grant Shapps says the coalition will instruct councils to create registers of potential self-builders and allocate them land, including some private plots "donated" by volume house-builders, as a condition of receiving planning consent to construct large schemes.
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On the FTSE, high-street retailers dropped and house-builders plummeted for the third day running after a string of broker downgrades.
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Do you not see what scores of carpenters and house-builders there are who spend their time in building houses for half the world; but for themselves they simply cannot do it, and are forced to live in lodgings.
Symposium 2007
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You will often be told that the Bubis are singularly bad house-builders, indeed that they make no definite houses at all, but only rough shelters of branches.
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But, as the first potters, weavers, house-builders were women, the idea of a divine creator as a moulder, designer, and architect originated with her, or was suggested by her.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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