Japanese houses are built of wood and they catch fire easily.

Most Japanese houses are built of wood.

Some Westerners may think our houses are lacking in everything they consider essential.

Old homes, especially traditional Japanese ones, can be damp and unfriendly to modern life.

Fires are less frightening today than they once were, because more and more houses are built of concrete, and concrete houses do not burn as easily as the old wooden ones.

Most houses were destroyed to pieces.

She arranges the buying and selling of houses in and around Deal.

Several houses were damaged in the last storm.

Those houses are 500 years old.