I never knew plain concrete and glass could be so expensive.

Just county budget restrictions, Reacher figured, that had limited the building to plain concrete and six storeys.

But for starters, better than plain concrete or dirt."

The walls were of plain concrete, adorned only with large numbers on each landing to mark off the successive floors.

Today the building stands with plain concrete.

Houses must be constructed of plain concrete.

The walls are cast in plain concrete, embellished at the top and edges not with curves but sharp stepped patterns.

That was a previously undreamed-of luxury; she had woken every day of her life to a packed earth floor or to plain concrete.

There were four other buildings, all one story, all plain concrete, all set back with thin rough driveways leading to them from the road.

The fashion at the time was to decorate large gardens with rockeries and grottoes and to form these from plain concrete.

"It's used for industrial roofing," Mr. Zizmor said, "but it's lighter and more stable than plain concrete, which can also crack."

It's unfortunate that the $55 million budget couldn't stretch to include something better than plain concrete, but the quality of this outdoor space is so high that it almost doesn't matter.

Although bluestone-style sidewalks are now promoted as the only appropriate ones for row-house neighborhoods, there is every evidence that plain concrete was widely used, perhaps even prevalent, by the mid-1880's.

Parts of the draft plan were abandoned: the floor was not constructed from marble as intended, but poured from plain concrete; outside there were no pinnacles on the façade.

EN 1992-1-6 provides supplementary rules to the general rules given in ENV 1992-1-1 for the design of components in building and civil engineering works in plain concrete made with normal weight aggregate.

There was little or no evidence of 'home comforts' in the cells, the walls of which were plain concrete, with cot-type beds and what really amounted to a hole in the wall to house each occupant's personal effects.