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Sentence Examples The geology at Grimes Graves comprises a number of flint layers lying below sands and clays and interspersed between chalk. Scorched sands and wood turned to lush green grass and darkly-stained timber. But it's also one of the prettiest, with richly coloured pictures of luscious foliage, yellow sands and strange devils' faces peeping from trees. At low water, its yellow sands surround a series of isolated rocks, reputed to be the stepping-stones of a giant. Three roughies if your looking for better money are Yippio, Primrose sands and always the bridesmaid, Kaapstad Way. Medium to fine grained Kalahari sands, with gleyic arenosols in inundation-prone floodplain grassland areas. Ground and polished, it can reveal a subtle, colored matrix of gradated sands and rock, such as you might find along the edge of a stream bed. The soils are mostly leached sands and are defined as generally poor in nutrients and relatively saline except for the clay riverine soils. The sediments include lacustrine freshwater limestones, silts, marls, occasional sands and local lignite. The best known are the cockles of the Glamorgan sands and laver, edible seaweed that is gathered around the south and west coasts. It is a beautiful world situated among endless sands and rocks under an orange sky. Price paints the forms with patches and dots of color, sands down the surface and repaints. The idea of sharing Christmas cheer surrounded by warm sands and crashing surf sounded wonderfully alluring. All that was left of the aircraft was a burned-out wreck, with blackened pieces scattered across the sands. They consist of complex cross-bedded sands commonly enclosing thin wisps of muddy sediment. Conditions remain tough in the white sands resort in the aftermath of the hurricane. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. The incoming sediments beneath the 3 km deep Oman abyssal plain consist of 3 km of Makran sands that are derived from the north. Nearly all beach sands have distinctive stratification that dips downward toward the water. But tourism officials say other chalet owners specifically book because an area of the sands is available to exercise their pets. Show More Sentences Women walk miles on the blazing sands in search of an elusive pot of water. The hotel was set on the beach itself, with a beautiful view of the white, white sands and the gorgeous sunset. Either it had been moved by someone, or something as was more likely, or it had been covered by the shifting sands of the desert. The sands of the desert gave way to a grass-land, though the grass had a rotten look to it, and was slippery to walk on. As poet, prosodist and epistolarian, words in their millions ran through his fingers, like the sands of the desert. If you must go out on to the sands go out when the tide is on the ebb so that if you do get stuck we have a chance of getting you out. We were in Blackpool for a silly day trip, a tacky, idiotic day out to the seaside to frisk on the sands in mid-July. Compaction in sands proceeds by eliminating porosity by mechanical and chemical processes, and then by pressure dissolution. His 4X4 Popemobile was driving along the golden sands when there was an enormous commotion heard just off the headland. The waves rolled towards the beach, as the dusty winds blew wild sands into the air. The basal conglomerates and the equivalent sands and muds on the interfluves are commonly ferruginized. That kind of business-as-usual strategy would have been considered hubris or just plain stupid a decade ago, but the sands have shifted. The large-scale operation went on for more than two hours as rescuers plucked the cocklers from the sands four miles from the coast. Gaze at it across the waters from the white sands of Morar and it clearly has two distinct parts. The last sands of the hourglass passed through and it turned over, beginning again. Explore the sands, catch some fish and learn about quicksands with Cedric Robinson. This is a coast of colours, of thumping aquamarine swells, fat red grapes and sands as fine and white as Meissen china. Tellinas or sunset shells are tiny shellfish that live in the sands of Camargue. Like Lanzarote, Tenerife is a volcanic island with darkish sands and no shortage of sunloungers. The overburden comprises sands and shales with thin coal interbeds, which passes upwards into sandstones and shales without coals. Show More Sentences When the tide is out, the sands stretch offshore almost as far as the eye can see. The Chinese migrants drowned in February when they were caught in fast-rising tides on the sands of Morecambe Bay. Canada now claims to have the second largest oil reserves in the world, all based on the inclusion of its oil sands in its reserve estimates. His national energy policy report in 2001 noted the importance of Canada's oil sands to US energy security. Next in Canada at the Atherbasca oil sands he worked ten hours seven days a week. Right now, only a tiny fraction of the crude in either the Athabasca oil sands or the Orinoco Belt can be recovered. Extracting oil from non conventional oil sands or shale is heavily energy hungry. For example, at prices around where they are now, Canada's oil sands have become profitable. Now they're under your control, and you can call them from the sands and direct them to harass your enemies. It's worth forsaking the hard pack along the oceanfront to challenge the shifting sands of the Pismo State Beach Dune Preserve. The Yellow Cat Member contains a basal calcrete with interbedded sands and clays and extends upward to a prominent sandstone unit. The huge flat and hard sands at low tide could have persuaded the Germans to mount attacks via Southern Ireland. A mile or so later we emerged at the golden sands and slipped onto the Island of Llanddwyn via a sand cause-way. Another significant development of the mid-19th century was the introduction of round buddles, which were used to wash the fine sands and slimes. The white sands themselves are snow-white, powdery, and gypsum-based, surrounded by mountains on three sides. Romance surrounds the idea that incredible wealth lies hidden in rugged peaks, narrow box canyons, or shifting sands of desert dunes. Take a look at those pristine, white, unpolluted sands with crystal clear water and waves gently rolling in. I helped unearth it and I know the burning salt sands were too tightly packed to have just been recently patted down. Where found alternating with massive mudstone and thin coal seams, these sands probably formed as sheet-like floodplain deposits. Under the placic layers were 10s of meters of stratified glaciodeltaic sands and silts. Show More Sentences However, the monsoon is no season to lounge on the cosy sands beside the lapping waves. In recent years, to create a pleasant ambience and to keep the shifting sands in check, the land around the complex was turfed. Gwyn continued trudging across the sands as the last rays of light slowly faded to purple streaks across the sky. At a time of great challenge in the world the commander in chief must stand on principle, not on the shifting sands of political convenience. Aside from swings in the economy, the board has to contend with the shifting sands of global politics, a factor in re-shaping the company. At the parish level I have experienced firsthand the shifting sands of Anglicanism from covenant to contract. The beach sands are dominated by shells of bivalve mollusks, mainly venerids, gastropods, and echinoderms. He moved on to the national stage, bestrode it, and then let his talents run away into the sands of Liberal Unionism and Tariff Reform. Tar sands crude and shale gas threaten both the quality and quantity of freshwater resources. Beach beautifiers clean up the sands for two hours every morning and evening, but in the meantime, beach users litter the place. The big, big, wide sands of Blackpool beach have been awarded a blue flag by the important people in charge of Britain's beaches. Its leader is a surreal portrait of art-school eccentricity, a social maverick up to his neck in the shifting sands of taboo and faux pas. The Mauritanian stretch of the road will replace a track over the shifting sands that lie between Mauritania's two main cities. This is succeeded by plane-bedded sands dipping gently seaward, which are produced by the swash and backwash of the waves on the beach face. Many times golf course tees and greens are constructed with materials such as calcareous sands that might require special testing. She must be wondering whether the sands of time are running out, ridiculous as it might sound for a youngster of her tender years. Whatever the party members may think, soldiers in Germany must know the sands are running out. Once the worst pitting and damage is filed away, he sands the metal with a coarse sandpaper. Soils in this classification include fine sands, loamy sands and fine sandy loams. Bars migrate downstream, producing tabular cross-stratified sands, and these merge to give sand flats covered by rippled and planar-bedded sands developed during flood stages. Show More Sentences A young groom, eagerly attired, stands before a doorway, which in turn looks out onto a landscape of sun-scarred desert, aureate sands stretching to a blinding, azure sky. For those who wish less publicly to enjoy the salubrious exercise of swimming, there are machines on the North sands with attendants and accommodations. The sky is busy with gulls and the exposed sands and stones are playgrounds to coastal waders, including oyster catchers, cormorants and sandpipers. The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no. Its new marketplaces, built in traditional style, broad avenues, parks and city-wide greenery cover a land where only a few decades ago the sands blew. Scattered along fertile valleys, between sands and snows, most Afghan people farm land which is seared by 40 Centigrade summers, and is snowbound by the long, cold winters. The fight for Iwo Jima in Part 8, co-directed by David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa, is fought on black sands and volcanic ash. It would transport bitumen and liquefied natural gas drawn from the tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, mainly in Texas. Two other potential energy strikes are tight sands and shale oil, where rock must be fractured using high-pressure water or chemicals to loosen up the reserves. Deep-ocean wells, tar sands and shale oil are all there, but some of them require the use of nine barrels of oil to drill, mine, process and transport 10 barrels of product. Continued erosion by fast-flowing water eroded the uplands to the north of the Gippsland Basin and covered the coal measures with sands and gravels. White sands shelve steeply down into clear blue-green water. These questions found no purchase on the shifting sands of memory. The fate of the City Hospital is nothing new to us across the Atlantic, where market economy dictates the shifting sands of the medical landscape. He built his long-term hopes for the prosperity of the church on the shifting sands of revival rather than the steady development of congregation-based programmes. Shepherd, older brother of former European super-featherweight title contender Charles, keeps in trim by running every day on the sands close to his Silloth home. The sands were emplaced by turbidity currents sourced from a delta system. Contemporary reports from Mustique's white sands had her down as a royal prima donna insisting on protocol even while sipping cocktails in a two-piece. The cloth could be 'ironed' by rubbing it between a whalebone plaque and a fist-sized glass or stone smoother which was heated either in hot sands or by the fire. In glacial terrains coarse-grained, so-called Gilbert-type deltas of gravels and sands are common, and these pass in deeper water into varved sediments. Show More Sentences It's a spine-chilling, fast-paced thriller packed with vivid descriptions of Egypt from the glistening sands of the western desert to the stinking back streets of Cairo. They trudged through the blowing sands making little forward progress. Most of us carry a store of memories and hopes of beach life, from rock pools and sandcastles to romantic encounters walking along the silver sands on a desert island. After lunch we went for a play on the sands and a paddle in the sea. Like sands through the hourglass, these are the stars of our lives. Add a little data storage and we can traverse the terrain of human geography, logging our footprints in the sands of time and recounting the meaning of our passages. Teams of coastguards, paramedics and firemen had walked for two-and-half hours over the sands to get to the casualty, who had already spent a night trapped in torrential rain. Anyone from any nation, no matter how affluent or impecunious they may be, can step on to our golden sands and enjoy the gifts of our national icons. In the more stabilized dune sections, the tawny sands flare with color, thanks to the blossoms of desert gold, pink desert sand verbena, and purple phacelia. It is well-known for its treacherous sands and fast-moving incoming tides. He was appointed Queen's guide in 1963 and knows the sands intimately. For example, the pink sands of Bermuda get their color from the shells of a foraminiferan called Homotrema rubrum which has pink to red-colored shells. The trucks carry the oil sands from the mine to the grinders. Then returning to Alexandria he made his way to Ethiopia to see the gymnosophists and the famous table of the sun spread in the sands of the desert. As well as eroding land on visible sites, high winds are blowing off topsoil and sands which expose undiscovered sites which are then quickly washed away, said Dawson. When they finally arrived, teams were greeted with a downburst of rain, rapidly dropping the temperature from a hot 90F to a cool 60-70F and turning the desert sands into mud. Large quantities of glacier meltwater deposited various kinds of material, the most important of which is called outwash, consisting mostly of sands and gravels. It is a fable recalled by a lonely man who lies between the clumps of grass on the sands by a river, like a survivor washed ashore after a shipwreck. The engineering company Moretrench is currently testing a 500-feet-deep barrier for tar sands excavation in Alberta. She tells us how little the federal and provincial governments have done to regulate the tar sands. Show More Sentences The red line is the approximate break-even price of the average tar sands producer. Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top. Long streams of dust billowed off the purple and maroon sands, creating huge spreading lines of dust clouds which gradually attenuated until they became invisible. Not so long ago, Neil Young had come up to the tar sands and compared the devastation to Hiroshima. No longer on an island, the site is now left exposed to anybody willing to walk across the drying sands. These depocentres contain thick upper Maureen, Eista and Forties sands deposited in laterally extensive submarine fan systems with widespread confined channelling. At the southern margin, longshore drift induced by the southeasterly winds accumulated carbonate sands and gravel in a spit-platform, at the lee side of a protruding cape. It was also possible to walk on the sands as far as the spitals on Filey Brig, a statement which would give visitors an idea of the extraordinary lowness of the tide. In Flanders, sands, gravels and marls predominate, covered by silts in places. Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them. In Canada, BP is involved in the extraction of oil sands, also known as tar sands or bituminous sands. In addition to the conventional oil exploration and production, BP has a stake in the three oil sands projects in Canada. Since the early 2000s, the company has been focusing its refining business on processing crude from oil sands and tight oil from shales. When oil sands are included, Canada has the world's second largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia. Tar sands, also known as bituminous sands or oil sands, represent approximately two-thirds of the world's estimated oil reserves. These oil sands resources are called unconventional oil to distinguish them from oil which can be extracted using traditional oil well methods. Thus, Canada's oil sands are not expected to provide more than a few million barrels per day in the foreseeable future. Above Langney Sands, the river abruptly narrows to a hundred yards, the sands diminish and the channel occupies the whole of the river. Guests can also head to the beach, a softly shelving one with powdery white sands fringed with wild sea grapes, hibiscus and palms. A well will ultimately test what are believed to be Vicksburg sands developed around and closed on the flanks of a shale diapir. Show More Sentences The sidetrack will target the primary objective Miocene sands in a more favorable stratographic position. Further stratographic test wells were drilled on Canadian Natural's Horizon oil sands project lands located north of Fort McMurray. Upgraders convert mined bitumen from oil sands into refinery-ready synthetic crude. The same issue arose later in 2012 in a Joint Review Panel reviewing Shell Canada Energy's application to expand its Jackpine oil sands mine. Lost to the sands of time was the Wintu people, but the sands of time can be dug through. The middle unit, the Agbada Fm, is up to 4,600 metres thick locally and consists of shallower water marine sands and lagoonal sands and shales. Proximality trends in modern storm sands from the Helgoland Bight and their implications for basin analysis. Oil sands development is of national interest and has attracted significant international media attention. Her comparison of a silvery moon gliding across a midnight sky to a moon snail gliding on silvery sands creates in us a sense of awe. Identification of multiple rare earths and associated elements in raw monazite sands by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Areas with large amounts of thorium-rich monazite sands tip the scales when it comes to background radiation. The well targeted hydrocarbons in Miocene aged sands around 75 km to the northwest of Bertam field, operated by Lundin Malaysia. The highlands are built of tills and of englacial and marginal glaciofluvial sands and gravel. The oil sands industry is GIW's primary market, so the company was ready for the challenge. Tar sands are a mixture of sand, clay, water and a dense and viscous tar-like form of petroleum called bitumen. The event also marked the one-year anniversary of Wapisiw Lookout, the world's first oil sands tailings pond to be revegetated and reclaimed. We had been already five weeks in Savagedom, among sands, deserts, and scorching sunshines, and, to say the truth, we had had enough of it. The boundary with the overlying sands is abrupt and precludes any illuvial origin of the clays. Asked to explain the about-face, Bush blamed the shifting political sands. Windermere forms part of the western border with Lancashire north of the sands, and Ullswater part of the border with Cumberland. Show More Sentences In this way ashy muds or sands or even in some cases ashy limestones are being formed. The sands or mudflats with dangerous quicksands became a grass meadow now grazed by small flocks of sheep. The Southern Lowlands consist of Miocene and Pliocene sands, clays, and gravels. Trinidad is made up of a variety of soil types, the majority being fine sands and heavy clays. Gold is washed out of the sands of the Vitim and the Olyokma, and mammoth tusks have been dug out of the delta. This property is host to pyrope beach sands dominated by favourable G10 pyrope mineral chemistry. It was found wandering in the desert, confused by the wind, the blowing sands of the barchan dunes. The Sarmatian sandstones and sands in the interfluve of Kura and Iori are stained with oil. The Orinoco River deposits also contain extensive tar sands in the Orinoco oil belt, which may be a source of future oil production. Already by the 1490s, there are rumors that silver can be found in the island's sands. The sands also were used for sand painting pictures, a popular craft in Victorian times known as marmotinto. The middle unit, the Agbada Fm, is up to 4,600 metres thick and consists of shallower-water marine sands and lagoonal sands and shales. The sands are coloured due to oxidised iron compounds formed under different conditions. Pingos form by the penetration of unfrozen but saturated sands to the surface through a layer of permafrozen ground. The Eastern Sahara is one of the hottest places on Earth, its parched sands moistened by a rain shower every few decades. The Hundred of Penwith had its ancient centre at Connerton, now buried beneath the sands of Gwithian Towans at Gwithian. Painter's Plaid features criss-crosses of colors, Oak Park pays homage to the Chicago suburb and Sedona portrays the sands of the desert. Valuable mineral components often occurring with black sands are monazite, rutile, zircon, chromite, wolframite, and cassiterite. This is believed to have been caused by the movement of ice ploughing into the underlying unconsolidated sands. At low tide it is possible to walk across the sands following an ancient route known as Pilgrims' Way, but see the note above. Show More Sentences Proceeding from the mouth the estuary inland, there are initially beach sands at the margin, thence shingle beach and mudflats. It is native to the coastlines of Europe and North Africa where it grows in the sands of beach dunes. The soils usually consist of levees, silts, and sands deposited during floods. Hydrocarbons are mined from oil sands and oil shale, and potentially extracted from sedimentary methane hydrates. Only some sands are suitable for the construction industry, for example for making concrete. We set down in a desert without the sinuous sands of the movies, in a camp, by the gateless Jericho. Sands rich in magnetite are dark to black in color, as are sands derived from volcanic basalts and obsidian. They can also originate from beach sands and extend inland into vegetated areas in coastal zones and on shores of large lakes. A series of silts of palustrine origin and beds of carbonate sands and graveis are recorded atc. The inner parts of this channel were filled by glacially derived sands and gravels long ago, and infilling by mud and silt has continued since. But now the internet giant has strapped one to a ten-year-old dromedary called Raffia to capture the sands of Abu Dhabi. Amex Resources has signed a procurement, construction and management contract to develop its Ba Delta Iron sands project. The whole bay is shut in by high hills and is thickly encircled with sands. It is easy to see this pattern when the waves are destructive and wash away finer grained material at the top, revealing coarser sands and cobbles as the base. Over the past decade, the development of the Alberta oil sands has been attractive to many trades-people, including many Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. We saw land yachts chase across the sands of the bay 300ft below us. The soils in the experimental sample plots are Gleyic Podzols on sands that show essential chemical changes in the vicinity of the industrial enterprises. Expect to reclassify Contingent Resource volumes as Reserves, once producibility of Lower Logbaba sands has been established by stimulation and testing. Now, Dubai, the seven-star playground of the rich and famous, has been exposed as a mirage built on the shifting sands of funny money and false hopes. Tiny barn swallows struggle across the sands to find a life-saving oasis. Show More Sentences The sandfish lizard wriggles through desert sands like a sci-fi monster. Like the deadly sandworms in the Dune science fiction series, a host of animals from scorpions to snakes burrow in desert sands across the planet. Inland behind the Chalk were less resistant sands, clays and gravels. Tar sands oil is slang for bituminous sand, a mixture of sand, clay, water and an extremely gooey form of petroleum known as bitumen, which resembles tar in appearance. Leading his own troops, dispensing justice, an after-type of those great Arabs who sprang from the sands of Arabia and Africa, shook Europe, and flourished in Spain, a basha. Grasses sprout on the sands long before the early rains have restored the echard of adjoining clays and given a surplus as chresard which can initiate grass growth. These two countries have the world's largest deposits of oil sands. Lonsdale was further partitioned into Lonsdale North, the detached part north of the sands of Morecambe Bay including Furness and Cartmel, and Lonsdale South. It is predominantly of a brown forest soil type with some gleying, the lower parts being formed from raised beach sands and gravels derived from Old Red Sandstone and lavas. It purchases crude oil for the company's refineries in the United States and has oil sands holdings in Alberta and four offshore blocks in Nova Scotia. Members of US and Canadian oil companies say that using recycled groundwater makes in situ drilling an environmentally friendlier option when compared with oil sands mining. Members of Canada's First Nations have criticized BP's involvement in the Canadian project for the impacts tar sands extraction has on the environment. In mountainous torrential zones this can be seen as erosion channels through hard rocks and the creation of sands and gravels from the destruction of larger rocks. The tide-waves, whispering evermore To rocks and sands the ocean-lore. Some sands contain magnetite, chlorite, glauconite or gypsum. Many sands, especially those found extensively in Southern Europe, have iron impurities within the quartz crystals of the sand, giving a deep yellow color. Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block the oil sand operations at Athabasca, Canada. The Bay has treacherous bogs at low tide amongst the otherwise firm sands. Later, the deep layer of vegetation became buried under coarse sands. Sandown has been a seaside resort town since the Victorian age thanks to its sands and the sunny weather on the Isle of Wight compared to other parts of the United Kingdom. Show More Sentences A traditional product of Alum Bay, and a fixture of Isle of Wight tourist shops, is the creation of ornaments using the coloured sands layered in vials and jars. As a resort, the town is noted for its expansive sands, which are revealed at low tide, making its pier necessary on the wide beach for a regular passenger ferry service. One of his principal achievements was to protect agricultural lands from advancing coastal sands by ordering the planting of a pine forest near Leiria. Its pure white sands, sun and warm weather all year long, and a sea ideal for water sports, make the beach of Punta Sal one of the finest on the Peruvian coast. Oil sands and mud volcanoes are especially common in this area. Shales are typically deposited in very slow moving water and are often found in lakes and lagoonal deposits, in river deltas, on floodplains and offshore from beach sands. They are collected by raking them from the sands at low tide. They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls. After a ride on the waves, the Liverpool striker was seen sticking his tongue out and clutching a boogie board as he ran along the sands to his model girlfriend Stacey Miller. Recent tar-sands oil spills such as the Exxon-Mobil pipeline spill in Arkansas in 2013 and the Enbridge tar sands spill in Michigan in 2010 are noted. Once this surge in US energy production was linked to a predicted boom in energy from Canada's tar sands reserves, the results seemed obvious and uncontestable. Secretary of State John Kerry for a thorough environmental and permitting process before allowing any existing pipelines in the state to transport tar sands oil. The bedrocks of the study area comprise crystalline basement covered by Vendian argillites, siltstones, clays and sands, gently inclining in a southern direction. The assumptions are as follows, firstly that the laminated sands which have sands and clays conduct independently, and secondly that clean shaly sands occurrence is present. The oil sands market will experience a dramatic downturn in 2015 as the impact of the oil price fall impacts upon project economics and company budgets. The garnish of roasted figs added a fitting flourish to a dish I'd choose if I ever find myself in Sands again. Sands once famously remarked that our revenge would be the laughter of our children. Now he's planning to cash in with an initial public offering of stock in Las Vegas Sands, the entity that controls his casinos. Giselle a ballet in two acts begins at 7.30 pm on Friday, April 1, at The Sands Centre, Carlisle. A detour left here takes you back to the foreshore, in front of Drum Sands. Show More Sentences He is a full brother to stakes winner Medaille Militaire and a half brother to the stakes-winning hurdler Wahiba Sands. Home care assistant Audrey Sands is using pedal power to help coin in cash for Manorlands hospice. This deck appears as a slightly battered and marked casino deck from The Sands that consists entirely of face cards. Seventeen miles due west is the White Sands National Monument, 300 square miles of white gypsum dunes, the largest gypsum deposit in the world. Sliding Sands Trail starts at the Haleakala Visitor Center parking lot and drops 2,500 feet in 4 miles. Dustin joined and teamed up with Jeremy and Christon, as the headed towards Salt Sands. Suddenly they moved over a vicious looking chain fence and the base at White Sands, New Mexico was under them. Las Vegas Sands Macau brought in Las Vegas showgirls to kick off its grand opening today, but its owners have lined up even better-endowed partners behind the scenes. On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night. Residents in Chapel Street and The Sands were evacuated to the town's Public Hall as the water level rose to just two inches below the flood protection barriers. The Goodwin Sands lightships are to be put in communication with the shore by means of wireless telegraphy and the installation is to be completed in about a month. Off the Kent coast shipwrecked seamen managed to find a foothold don the Goodwin Sands, but they knew the rising sea would drown them if they were not taken off. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child. It's worth noting that Hume, Sands and Adams are lowland Scots names. The ARAV, a product of the NSWC PHD White Sands Detachment, is a solid-fuel rocket-based target vehicle that emulates ballistic missile threats. Seal Sands was named because more than 1,000 common seals lived on its mudflats. Her body taken across the Lafan Sands to the Franciscan Friary at Llanfaes, Anglesey. With the opening of the Sands Macao, in 2004 and Wynn Macau in 2006, gambling revenues from Macau's casinos grew considerably prosperous. Nicknames include the Granite City, the Grey City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands. West of Duddon Sands Wind Farm was commissioned in 2014 and is currently the largest of the four wind farms. Show More Sentences The Manchester United and England defender was seen riding go-karts with wife Rebecca Ellison and their two sons at Presthaven Sands. West Sands Beach in St Andrews, Scotland, served as the set for the opening scene in the movie Chariots of Fire. Before the building of the railway, the main way of reaching Grange was the road across the Sands of Morecambe Bay from Hest Bank. A photograph taken at Derwentwater is used as the album art for Black Sands by Bonobo. The geology of this area is dominated by London Clay in the east, Bagshot Sands in the west and alluvial deposits along the rivers. The Martians first land on Horsell Common on the north side of Woking, outside the Bleak House pub, now called Sands. Army began launching reassembled V-2 rockets, and American rockets, from White Sands in New Mexico. Before the heavy industrialisation of the Tees, the flats at Seal Sands in the estuary were home to common seals. For around 100 years this species was absent from the estuary but have now returned and can be seen on the flats at Seal Sands. Brown added that, unlike some charter schools, Desert Sands receives 100 percent funding from the state. The Seal Sands area is now designated as the Teesmouth National Nature Reserve. Sands Centre Sports Hall is Carlisle's main entertainment venue which sometimes hosts touring musicians, theatre and comedians. It's a good base for the beach at Slapton Sands or yachtie Kingsbridge Estuary. By 1882 a number of salt works were established at Haverton Hill near to Port Clarance and nearby Seal Sands in 1882 by Bell Brothers. The East Sands Leisure Centre, which opened in 1988, sits on the outskirts of the town as the town's swimming pool with gym facilities. Furthermore, the British Government and NATO do not recognise advisory opinion of the ICJ, as interpreter of IHL and referred to by Sands et al. Ricardo Rivas, 29, and Jason Sands, 21, both of Palmdale, are said to be armed and extremely dangerous and should not be approached. Bobby Sands began the 1981 strike, saying that he would fast until death unless prison inmates won concessions over their living conditions. The gypsum sand dunes of the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico are famous for their bright, white color. Air Products are building two waste to energy units at Seal Sands and Sita are upgrading their unit at Haverton Hill. Show More Sentences Attractions on the island include the Sands of Breckon composed of crushed shells, and the Daal of Lumbister gorge. The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands. This resulted in a skirmish, the Battle of Goodwin Sands, after which the Commonwealth declared war on 10 July. For example, western mosquitofish had a significant negative effect on the abundance and biomass of the threatened White Sands pupfish. These companies are based on three large chemical sites around the mouth of the River Tees at Wilton, Billingham and Seal Sands. Sands are supplied periodically, especially after typhoons, to keep the beach viable. The farm is immediately north west of the West of Duddon Sands Wind Farm and also to the west of Ormonde Wind Farm. Bags of rubbish had been piling up around the Baldoon Sands area of Acklam which had not seen a dustcart in over two weeks. On 17 March 1899 the East Goodwin lightship sent a signal on behalf of the merchant vessel Elbe which had run aground on Goodwin Sands. This area of water within the Harbour is known as Wareham Channel and includes other places such as Rockley Sands. Retired police mapmaker Thomas Graveson, 66, said Christine was found in a field near Gosford House, beside the A198 leading from Gosford Sands. A coastal battery at Easington, Fort Goodwin or Kilnsea Battery, faced the Bull Sands Fort. Seabirds from the Arctic Circle have been arriving, including Long-tailed Ducks at RSPB Valley Lakes, Llyn Trawsfynydd, Porthmadog Cob and off Black Rock Sands. Descending is more difficult, and barges often needed to start their descent with one tide, lay up before crossing Longney Sands, and finish the descent at the next tide. To the west of the town, United Biscuits have their group technical centre on Sands Ind Estate, off the A4010, near the rugby ground of London Wasps. They included Jonathan Sands, chairman of Elmwood, Morag Myerscough founder of Studio Myerscough and Tom Evans, creative director of Bleep Bleeps. North of the estuary mouth extend the Sands of Forvie, the most extensive sand dune formation in Europe, which has been shown to have been a Stone Age settlement. When Sands, SugarHouse, and Valley Forge opened in Pennsylvania during the following year, there was no additional significant effect to Atlantic City casinos' slot coin-in. As in Maiden Castle, in which we glimpsed Dud and Wizzie in nondreaming oblivion, there is in Weymouth Sands an emphasis on sleep as the other of Being. Supply from INVISTA will start at the beginning of 2009, and once a reliable delivery has been established, BASF aims to close and dismantle its ADN plant in Seals Sands. Find more words! 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