Example sentences of "of water in " in BNC.

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1 Fit the screw cap with the bung and airlock and put a small amount of water in the airlock .
2 At 650 acres Draycote Water is the biggest stretch of water in the south Midlands and offers a wide range of activities .
3 He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years .
4 As he waited to pose for photographers drinking a glass of water in a City bank , Mr Howard said the Government 's calculations had been overtaken by the surge in the stock market .
5 Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for .
6 We might speculate further and say that they probably lived very close to the well because of the importance of water in the life of a Middle Eastern family .
7 Mrs Hollidaye put her flowers in a tin bucket of water in the porch where other bunches of flowers were being collected .
8 He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers .
9 Watering from below , by standing the pot in a few inches of water in the sink until the surface compost is damp , is generally the easiest method .
10 After all , if one interferes with the flow of water in a vortex , this pattern too will be restored when the interference ceases .
11 It was discovered in 130 feet of water in the exact spot where two anonymous letters written to Mrs Allan had said it would be .
12 However , because ‘ newly-born ’ micelles can only arise at the expense of the preexisting ones ( there is a finite amount of water in the system that must be shared between all the micelles ) , the average radius of the micelles decreases .
13 It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas .
14 He took a deep breath , and drank a glass of water in one go .
15 The range and significance of water in the processes of life is the subject of the next chapter .
16 Take one tablespoon from the stock bottle and add to 8–10 tablespoons of water in a cup or glass .
17 Then as before take one tablespoon from the stock bottle and add to 8–10 tablespoons of water in a clean cup or glass .
18 In temperate countries such as Britain , the absence of water in the landscape is often a good clue to the presence of one of these great underground stores .
19 If we drilled many boreholes into the aquifer and found the level of water in all of them , we could imagine a surface made by joining all the individual levels .
20 Then , of course , they 'd make me a mother figure getting up asking me for a glass of water in the middle of the night .
21 The pressure of water in the mains is based on the fire-fighting requirements of a locality .
22 Had he not had a bowl of water in his cell , he too , would have succumbed before his rescuers found him .
23 Help yourself as much as you can by looking ahead and picking the flattest piece of water in which to turn .
24 ‘ Just a minute , ’ said Sergeant Davidson , going out of the street door with a bucket of water in his hand .
25 CD describes a ‘ piece of water in the midst ’ but although there was originally a fountain there , by 1780 it had been displaced by the plinth of the present statue of William III added in 1808 , BR 70 .
26 The construction of drains , as Hornung et al. ( 1987 ) have discussed , tends to reduce the residence time of water in the soil or peat .
27 Why is there only a small need for storage of water in the reservoirs ?
28 What features may reduce the flow of water in rivers ?
29 She came out bearing a basin of water in which a cloth and a bar of soap floated .
30 There was one never-to-be-forgotten occasion when one of the girls , slightly the worse for wear , staggered in and , evidently in dire straits , spent a penny in the fire bucket which was kept brim full of water in the middle of the hut .
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