Sentences with phrase «embankments around»

These might include small dams in the headlands or working with farmers to build embankments around fields to store water during the winter months when cattle are housed indoors.»

Given the increased centrifugal force created by the high speeds around curves, it is also advisable to increase the height of embankments around curves and widen the track gauge to prevent derailments.

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Margaret Masson, an elderly woman travelling to her home in Cardonald, was thrown around in the coach as the train slid along the railbed and then careered down a steep embankment.

It will start at 12.30 and take in Victoria Embankment, Bridge Street, Parliament Square, Millbank and finish in Dean Stanley Street at around 13.30.

An embankment near the base of a slope will prevent the cold air sinking to the valley bottom, leaving it hanging around the lower slopes of the vineyards.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

However, to simulate a run - off crash test, Volvo needed to come up with a way to make the occupants move around randomly, like they do in when they drive off an embankment.

As much as I loved watching Hunter Grant chase Bryan, a frightened and desperate IT consultant, in circles around a parked truck, this show would be much better pitting its «agents» against real life Traceurs and Traceuses, who could show them a thing or two about running, and by running I mean climbing cat like across a railing before back flipping onto a concrete embankment and dropping twenty - feet into a full fledged sprint.

His work can be found in museum collections around the world, and he carried out numerous public commissions, including a series of vitreous enamel panels at Embankment underground station.

They are playtoys, toy trains to run on circular tracks, puffing around the Knob of CO2 Control, and the embankments of steep water feedback.