Example sentences of "of water [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curve ST represents the vapour pressure of water below its freezing point . |
| 2 | With this type of wave the swash , or rush of water up the beach from the breaking wave , is weak as the water plunges directly on to the beach . |
| 3 | Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin . |
| 4 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 5 | His eyes were fixed , like someone watching a flow of water across a weir . |
| 6 | Most manufactured cascade units require an output of at least 1140 litres ( 250 gallons ) per hour to put a thin sheet of water across their width , while 1365 litres ( 300 gallons ) per hour is required to make a continuous filmy flow 15 cm ( 6 in ) wide . |
| 7 | Early this morning there were ‘ road closed ’ signs at Gubberford bridge and near the bottom of Tithebarn Lane , although by then there was only an inch or two of water across the road . |
| 8 | We also highlight the design and development of new products which offer environmental advantages to our customers and the general public , and the way we are managing the use of water across ICI . |
| 9 | It undoubtedly owes its early discovery by both scientists and the hobby to its distribution pattern ; it is found all along the main drainage of the Amazon in relatively accessible waters , unlike some of the more recent introductions ( eg A.nijsseni , A.macmasteri ) which have a very restricted range in small bodies of water off the beaten track . |
| 10 | November 5 : Douglas DC-7CF HI-599CT of Aerochago Airlines crashed into 15ft of water off Danra Beach after take-off from Fort Lauderdale , Florida . |
| 11 | The supreme court declined to hear a case involving a ton of gold recovered so far from the SS Central America , resting in 8,000 feet of water off the coast of South Carolina after being sunk by a hurricane in 1857 . |
| 12 | The physical demands of the play meant that he had to drink three pints of water off stage during each performance to make up for what he was losing on stage . |
| 13 | The British seaside resort of Blackpool has been condemned by the European Court of Justice for the quality of water off its bathing beaches . |
| 14 | And as important as the invention of teeth was , reproduction out of water via the amniote egg was an even more eventful turning point , and in more ways than one . |
| 15 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 16 | An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top . |
| 17 | Were there any hidden sand-bars a dozen yards from the beach , for a man could drown easily in the eight feet of water beyond them as in eighty ? |
| 18 | It is no hardship to have to carry a pail of water along a flat surface . ’ |
| 19 | The landlord placed the glass in front of Newman , pushed a jug of water along the bar , studying him . |
| 20 | It is apparent that such a pattern requires the existence of a variation in the piling up of water along the beach . |
| 21 | This results in a gentle down-wave drift of water , which can lead to the accumulation of water along the coast and so help to generate rip and longshore currents . |
| 22 | By the time the network was completed in the mid-1960s , it resembled a vast plumbing system with 18 huge pumps , each one big enough to suck in a car , driving 1 billion gallons of water through it each day . |
| 23 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 24 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 25 | It takes one calorie– of heat energy to raise one gram of water through one degree Celsius . |
| 26 | ‘ calorie ’ , spelt with a small ‘ c ’ , is defined as the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water through one degree Celsius . |
| 27 | The fundamental difference between water-clocks and mechanical clocks , in the strict sense of the term , is that the former involve a continuous process , for example , the flow of water through an orifice , whereas the latter depend on a mechanical motion that continually repeats itself and so divides time uniformly into discrete segments . |
| 28 | A joint venture between Brazil and Paraguay it began transmission late in 1984 and has the capacity to produce 12,600 MW with a flow of water through the 18 turbines which is 150 times that of the River Thames . |
| 29 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |
| 30 | For example , at TMI the ECCS was not successful because of human error and because steam and a hydrogen bubble generated by interaction between hot fuel and steam inhibited the natural circulation of water through the core . |