Sentences with phrase «panes of glass allow»

Large panes of glass allow light to flood in and give panoramic views of the surrounding woodland, and the steel frame has been painted bright green to give it a visual connection with the surrounding trees.

(Despite the name, the greenhouse effect is different from the warming in a greenhouse, where panes of glass allow the passage of visible light but hold heat inside the building by trapping warmed air.)

Not exact matches

(Similarly, McQueen's tendency to suggest alienation by filming characters through panes of glass does little to advance on a trope from Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), as Rainer Werner Fassbinder did in many of his 70s films.)

If you are renting your home and the owner is not keen on a cat flap being fitted in a back door, discuss the possibility of being allowed to install one in a pane of glass that you can replace when you move out.

Also, while the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace was the first to employ stained glass, the royal cathedral installed larger panes as allowed by vaulting.

Imhof built glass partitions between rooms and a raised glass floor throughout, which adds a frisson of danger while allowing voyeuristic scrutiny of the performers crawling among the transparent panes, as if they were another species on view.

Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and a few other atmospheric gases act like the glass panes of a greenhouse, allowing sunlight in to warm the planet but preventing heat from escaping.

Carbon dioxide acts something like the glass panes in a greenhouse, allowing sunlight in to heat the Earth, but preventing some of that heat from escaping into space.

They act like a blanket that surrounds the Earth and keeps it warmer than it would otherwise be, just as the glass panes of a greenhouse allow the sun's energy to enter but prevent some of the heat from escaping.

Instead of backsplash tiles above the stovetop, the homeowners used a thick pane of glass, allowing light to stream in all day long.