1.   Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe.

2.   Even under a clear blue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mud bricks.

3.   The ground was covered with crumbling mud bricks, heaps of cracked white stone.

4.   The big ones they had passed through gave way to smaller, two-storey ones built of mud brick which the rains were gradually dissolving.

5.   But because of a housing shortage and the difficulties of making mud bricks, the main construction material, some families have found shelter in caves.

6.   For about five days, Adams recalled, excavators carefully probed the midsection of the buried boat beneath its mud brick topping.

7.   Having grown up in a house made of prairie mud bricks, unprotected from dust and grasshopper invasions, the inventor dies a millionaire.

8.   Kalashnikov-toting guards waved us through onto a campus where bearded young men in conservative dress walked to and from buildings made of mud bricks and tin roofs.

9.   Most houses in villages are made of mud brick and are unable to withstand strong earthquakes.