In their natural state, wombats excavate large burrows where they will generally spend the day, coming out in the evening to feed. |
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The pair may excavate their own nest, or use the abandoned burrow of another animal. |
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Soil texture won't change unless you literally excavate your soil and replace it. |
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Our effort to excavate the anachronic underhistory of the work of art is therefore by its nature a challenge to enlightened historical models. |
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She told him to excavate a yantra called Sriyantra from beneath the entrance to an abandoned Siva temple on the Sati Chaura ghat. |
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Leaf-cutter ant colonies of many millions can excavate room-sized underground chambers in which they cultivate fungus gardens. |
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Wheel loaders offer the best bet for contractors who need to excavate rock, minerals, and soil or to load and carry materials. |
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Under Greece's strict protection laws, it is illegal to own, buy, sell or excavate antiquities without a special permit. |
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Also, they must excavate to remove foundations and basements, and they must grade the site at the completion of the demolition job. |
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They excavate burrows in soil or use natural rock crevices, or they may use old burrows. |
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We excavate a hole, put our tent inside it, and start winter camping for a few days. |
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The toad doesn't really need us to make him a home, both the spadefoot and Colorado river toad can excavate burrows almost three feet deep. |
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The massive females drag themselves well up beyond the high-tide mark and excavate a hole with their rear flippers. |
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And I turned round to the other diggers and said, Right who's going to excavate this? |
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As the ice moves it can erode or excavate large quantities of the rock and unconsolidated debris on which it rests. |
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It is not known if all the burrow nesting species excavate the tunnels or if some use tunnels dug by rodents or other animals. |
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But when we began to excavate the midden material outside the buildings we came across sherds of Unstan ware pottery. |
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In fact, he's headed to Montana this August to excavate tyrannosaurs and triceratops. |
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A team from the Oxford Archaeological Unit was engaged to excavate and reveal the archaeology for a public audience. |
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Lynn will receive training so she can excavate sites, remove fossils and artifacts, and carefully map the finds. |
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Both members of the pair excavate a hole in a decayed tree, typically a cottonwood or Ponderosa pine. |
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We have relocated the action of the play to more tightly excavate the grief caused by the death of a child. |
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A Cotswold-Severn tomb is one of the classic sites of British prehistory, and to have an opportunity to excavate one completely was such a treat, and a privilege. |
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The authorization to excavate an exploratory adit in the accident area was granted in June 2005, allowing the work to begin immediately. |
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The earth moving equipment is a machine used to excavate, scoop up, or level off soils and sandstones. |
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Often they excavate their dens on the south-facing slopes of hills or valleys, where prevailing northerly winds pile up deep snowdrifts. |
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An additional benefit is that mine clearance machines destroy or excavate all types of AVMs and APMs, whether plastic or metal cased. |
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Our crawler excavator can excavate, load or unload, and level off soils or sandstone. |
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The former curator and an antiquities dealer are being tried jointly for conspiring to excavate and export artefacts illegally from Italy. |
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They make innocuous holes from the outside, but once inside they tunnel and excavate. |
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It's great because it does the simple math that says we can't burn all of the reserves we're trying to excavate. |
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We also have an ongoing program to excavate sections of pipe for inspection and repair. |
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Let us not send investors there who are going to excavate or operate strip mines, or who might be employing children. |
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Once the females attract a male they seek a suitable site, e.g. a crack in a dry timber beam, and begin to excavate a chamber. |
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It may be preferable to excavate, damp-proof, and insulate from the outside. |
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The solution to this problem is to excavate and replace the faulty section of piping. |
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The Parks Canada underwater archaeology service proceeded to survey, protect and excavate the wreck over three summers. |
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Upon further investigation it was determined that Churchill had been tasked by the Town of Brigus to excavate the brook. |
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I can believe the widespread flowing water part, but did this flowing water excavate channels and valleys or create unconformities over a long period of time? |
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I made an abortive attempt to excavate a burrow today and catch one. |
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James inefectually tried to excavate a droplet of water from his ear. |
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These are people working with hoses and shorthandled shovels and picks, and then they excavate all of that burning material and they just keep moving around the perimeter. |
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With a shovel, excavate soil to create a level planting base. |
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A group of Japanese archeologists plans to excavate an archaeological site in central Afghanistan that may have been an important center of Buddhism. |
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Geoff Arnott, 26, and Adam Wright, 32, are seeking permission to excavate the remains of the 50-tonne plane which has been found on private land near Easingwold. |
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However, de-miners crawling on their bellies to identify, excavate, and destroy mines remain the default modus operandi. |
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There have been attempts to excavate the remains, and many have been removed over the past half-decade. |
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In the years since, Alford has worked hard to excavate what she really feels. |
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Archaeologists responded by buying the scrolls from antiquities dealers, then hiring the Bedouins to help them further excavate the fragments of this ancient library. |
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At one point the health workers excavate a shallow grave with a body bag. |
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Fortunately his talents were not allowed to lie fallow, and he was encouraged to excavate sites across the island, using the labour of fellow internees. |
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Scarlet macaws, blue and gold macaws, and hosts of smaller birds perch together in their hundreds to excavate the best clay layer along a riverbank. |
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The cheapest holes of all are those dug by other people. One particularly big hole that physicists did not have to excavate for themselves is INCO's Creighton nickel mine, near Sudbury, Ontario. |
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Drill-bits are used to excavate cores from the rock. |
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If archaeologists decide to excavate the sites of our factories in the year 5000, they will surely believe that all we ever built were huge paper mills. |
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The method used to excavate granular material will depend on the nature of the material, the equipment available, and, in permafrost terrain, the extent and nature of the permafrost. |
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They may excavate significant amounts of soil during nest construction. |
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If you are planning to put in fence posts, plant a tree, excavate for a pool, deck or a new addition then please call to have the service lines located. |
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Owing to the limited space available for building, workers would excavate deeply into the cliff base, thereby increasing the instability of the upper slope. |
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They use their sharp incisors to gnaw food, excavate burrows, and defend themselves. |
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Until results of this risk assessment are known, it is assumed that there will be opportunities to manage at least some of the contamination without having to excavate and dispose off-site. |
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When his unit moved to Blagny the troops were so close to the Germans that the snipers had to excavate their spyholes using pen knives. |
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Sand mining company El Monte Nature Preserve wants to excavate nearly 200 of the 575 acres of El Monte Valley. |
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A physicist at Fermilab in Chicago has calculated that an apple fired at such velocity would, if it hit the moon, excavate a crater six miles in diameter. |
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We post-Freudians can't help but hear a developmental insight in this oracle: excavate the bones of your past, your trauma, but put them behind you, proceed forward. |
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In 1874 he concluded an agreement with the Greek government granting the German Archaeological Institute the exclusive right to excavate the site of Olympia, thus opening the age of large-scale excavation in Greece. |
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You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. |
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In recent years, dredgers with more powerful cutters have been built in order to excavate harder rock without the need for blasting. |
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The Sedan test of 1962 was an experiment by the United States in using nuclear weapons to excavate large amounts of earth. |
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In all cases, shell middens are extremely complex and very difficult to excavate fully and exactly. |
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In the Middle Ages the local monasteries began to excavate the peatlands as a turbary business, selling fuel to Norwich and Great Yarmouth. |
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There was a proposal for the site to be cleared and the furnace dismantled, but fortunately, it was decided to excavate and preserve it. |
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In the 1980s it was planned to excavate the site, but the plan was abandoned, so the truth behind the story is not known. |
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Robert Walker was the first to excavate these features in the 1890s, and he thought they were evidence of a Phoenician settlement in Freshwater. |
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So all personnel were taken up into the hills and a British sergeant would step off so many paces and each man would have to excavate the grass and top soil down to the hard pan and carry this soil to the roadside. |
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For example, from 3 to 8 January 2005, the Beirut water authorities were provided permits to dig for a water pipe and to excavate the main roads around the St. George Hotel. |
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Motor grader is used to excavate or level off the earth. |
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Only through thinking can you excavate your talent and put it to use. |
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The Commission asked AECL to what extent it would have to excavate to create the new LTWMF since one of the intervenors was concerned that his well might be contaminated from the excavation. |
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The exploration plans also contain plans to excavate two costeans for bulk sampling and metallurgical samples from the shallowest part of the prospect. |
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Brown rats dig well, and often excavate extensive burrow systems. |
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The planned route for the underwater channel ran close to the Mary Rose wrecksite, which meant that funding was supplied to survey and excavate the site once more. |
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It is to his credit and to the enormous benefit of archaeology that he proceeded to excavate each one with the same slow, methodical care as the first. |
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With the rise of modern archaeology in the early 20th Century, archeologists began to excavate and investigate bog bodies more carefully and thoroughly. |
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One group of each legion would excavate the foundations and build the milecastles and turrets and then other cohorts would follow with the wall construction. |
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The main problem is that beavers excavate corridors and caves in dikes, thereby undermining the stability of the dike, just as the muskrat and the coypu do. |
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The developer, Cameron said, will excavate the entire eastern side of the freeway below the slip plane and recompact it to stabilize the freeway and the future development. |
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Each frame contained three compartments, one above the other, each big enough for one man to excavate the tunnel face, and the whole frame accommodated 36 miners. |
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Borel, curator of the Marin museum, began to excavate as well. |
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