Sentences with phrase «holes in the ground as»

The fact that people here don't live in mud brick huts and use a hole in the ground as a bathroom seems like an awfully low standard.

Although you may find yourself crouched over a hole in the ground as cramps spasm through you, or sweating profusely as you desperately try to figure how to flush a toilet that just will not flush, once the nightmarish ordeal is over, you will look back on it in an almost fond way, as the details fade, and all you remember of the ordeal is the stunning location where you nearly shit your pants.

Sometimes we long for the discomfort of travel — overnight train rides squashed next to a family of 10 in Kuala Lumpur, holes in the ground as toilets in Ban Lung, food so fresh off the street a piece of the vendor's hair is tangled into the noodles (well, maybe not that last bit).

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I always reflect on the life of this strong woman who was tough as nails, who for two years lived in a hole in the ground that could very well have been her grave.

They not only have no clue as to how our government works or what it takes to change laws, they wouldn't know a good president from a hole in the ground if they didn't first ask their pastor or fox news pundit their opinion.

I've said it myself, or at least something very like it, at gravesides as I've watched caskets descend into holes as seemingly bottomless as the central shafts into which the water descends in the reflecting pools at Ground Zero.

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Not feeding hungry or pay charity as should or storing money abroad in banks or holes under ground rather than investing it to generate business and good living for the nation nor even the slightest right of freedom!

Milk is an ideal breeding ground for bacteria that can cause infections such as tummy bugs (gastroenteritis), so it is essential to wash and then sterilise feeding equipment before use: • Wash equipment well using bottle and teat brushes in hot soapy water and then rinse thoroughly • Turn teats inside out and wash well, running water through the hole to make sure all old milk is removed Put the washed bottles and teats into your sterilising unit and follow the instructions.

Some time this summer, the parking lot at Elmwood Avenue and Bryant Street will start looking like a giant hole in the ground, as environmental cleanup and construction work starts on a major mixed - use building.

Water department crews have spent a lot more time this winter digging into frozen ground, shoveling asphalt and sifting through mud to find holes in Syracuse's plumbing as an unusually high number of water main breaks is putting a strain on city resources.

Scientists have for the first time shown that a grid of holes in the ground can act as a kind of seismic wall, a development that could lead to technologies that protect buildings from the dangerous tremors of earthquakes.

Technologies such as Apple's iBeacon have attempted to fill in holes with linked sensors that track indoor location using Wi - Fi or Bluetooth, but a new ground - based system by Australian company Locata is the first to produce a signal that merges seamlessly with the GPS network.

Sometimes the entrances are simply flat holes in the ground, while at other times they are surrounded by mounds of soil either left as piles or packed down hard.

The destruction of Erabor is a massive CGI set piece that reminds of LOTR, while the sequence in The Shire is almost as whimsical as you might expect, with Frodo (Elijah Wood) rushing off to meet Gandalf (Ian McKellen) as Bilbo putters about in his hobbit hole — and then, he begins to write, «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventurin The Shire is almost as whimsical as you might expect, with Frodo (Elijah Wood) rushing off to meet Gandalf (Ian McKellen) as Bilbo putters about in his hobbit hole — and then, he begins to write, «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventurin his hobbit hole — and then, he begins to write, «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventurIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventurin the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventure.

The world here appears at once real and imagined, and by the time the fire within the hole lights Yorke's face and the song grinds to a halt, Anderson dramatically reaffirms most of our beliefs about Radiohead's music as, above all else, the prettiest soundtrack in the world to one man's devotion to his own alienation.

As Wilder once said, «I like to believe that movement can be achieved eloquently, elegantly, economically and logically, without shooting from a hole in the ground, without hanging the camera from the chandelier, and without the camera dolly dancing a polka.»

What they find are fetid holes in the prairie ground filled with bone and blood and sinew, as if a body has been digested by the Earth.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit... J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, being directed by Peter Jackson as three separate movies, is set in Middle - Earth 60 years before Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in a trilogy ten years agIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit... J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, being directed by Peter Jackson as three separate movies, is set in Middle - Earth 60 years before Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in a trilogy ten years agin the ground there lived a hobbit... J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, being directed by Peter Jackson as three separate movies, is set in Middle - Earth 60 years before Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in a trilogy ten years agin Middle - Earth 60 years before Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in a trilogy ten years agin a trilogy ten years ago.

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.

When we reached our climb, that lack of ground clearance was an issue again, resulting in belly bangs and bumps over boulders, but the surefooted Jeep made it to the top as long as we avoided the bigger holes.

As he threw it, the tree flipped over and landed upside down, its branches causing a hole in the ground through which water gushed and created the lake that is here today.

Aggressiveness from enemies is clear to see from very early on when groups of enemies will attack simultaneously; even going as far as to rise up from a hole in the ground to unexpectedly pounce on your character with all manner of attacks.

Take Richard Wilson relocating Matt's Gallery's main window as a sculpture («She Came in Through the Bathroom Window», 1989), Urs Fischer reducing Gavin Brown's Enterprise to a hole in the ground («You», 2007) or Bethan Huws raising the Whitechapel Gallery's floor («Capelgwyn», 2011).

Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.

Behind the Rijkmuseum's Makeover — Wim Pijbes, director of the Dutch museum, talks about how its monumental 10 - year, $ 500 million renovation opening in the middle of this month was partly inspired by his tastes as a «foodie,» and the hazards of construction in a city of canals («you can not dig a hole in the ground without getting wet»).

If the ground had been blue the forms might have looked like islands in a sea but as some of the forms are themselves blue, maybe they more resemble fishing holes in ice.

O - Yeah, the guy whose job it is to stick the post in the ground never showed up; that's why one person fills the hole at the same pace as the other one digs it.

This actual instrumental record - as opposed to more imaginative proxies involving lumps of wood and holes in the ground - do not seem to agree with either the Met office, the IPCC nor Dr Mann's bold assertions, as the record clearly shows wild fluctuations and a certain amount of cyclical behaviour.

So by measuring the building internally, when we come to any outward - facing junction, such as an eaves, ground floor / wall junction, external wall corner etc. there is essentially a hole in our calculations, as we're limited to a one - dimensional heat loss calculation, and our U-values are blind to the heat loss happening in the second dimension at the junction.

It includes falls as a result of water, ice or snow, as well as abrupt changes in flooring, poor lighting or even a hidden hazard such as a gap or hard to see hole in the ground.

These injuries could be caused by icy or slippery conditions, inadequate security lighting, dog bites, unmarked or hidden hazards such as a hole in the ground, as well as unexpected steps up or down that aren't marked and concrete bumpers in the parking lot that aren't visible due to poor lighting.

Slip and fall injuries can result from such problems as water, rain, ice, snow, grease or other slippery substance on a walking surface, as well as abrupt changes in flooring, poor lighting, or a hidden hazard, such as a gap or a hard - to - see hole in the ground.

To be compensated, the slip must be caused by someone failing to safely maintain the property, such as milk spilled on a supermarket floor, or a hole in the ground without a sign warning of the danger.

«This has got to be one of the great urban sites of America,» Bucksbaum said as he stood at the edge of a massive hole in the ground busy with excavators and cranes.

Originally dugouts were small one - room dwellings that started as holes in the ground, dug up from shafts in the search for opal.