Retaining-wall Sentence Examples

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  • These difficulties are met by the assumption that the semicircular masonry formed the base of a retaining-wall which rose to a considerable height, supporting a theatre-like structure capable of seating many thousand persons.

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  • They may consist of earth with a retaining wall along the tracks and with the surface gravelled or paved with stone or asphalt, or they may be constructed entirely of timber, or they may be formed of stone slabs supported on longitudinal walls.

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  • The peribolos, a large artificial platform supported by a retaining wall of squared Peiraic blocks with buttresses, was excavated in 1898 without important results; it is to be hoped that the stability of the columns has not been affected by the operations.

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  • Some have supposed the circle of slabs to be the retaining wall of a tumulus; but its structure is not solid enough for such a purpose, and it can hardly be anything but a sacred enclosure.

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  • The altar of Zeus consists of a great mound of ashes with a retaining wall.

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  • A pit of this character may be sunk into the ground deeper than is indicated in the figure if the subsoil is dry and gravelly, but in the case of a damp subsoil it should rather be more elevated, as the soil could easily be sloped up to meet the retaining wall.

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  • We do not always know the least resistance which it is safe to give to a retaining wall subject to the pressure of earth, or conversely, the maximum resistance to side-thrust which natural or embanked earth will afford, because we wisely neglect the important but very variable element of adhesion between the particles.

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  • As a result of this theory, in the case of a retaining wall supporting a vertical face of earth beneath an extended horizontal plane level with the top of the wall, we get p _ wx 2 1 - sin ii 2 I +sin P' [[Reservoir Empty Reservoir Full Ellipses Of Vertical Pressures On Horizontal Joints]].

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  • To the front boundary is a retaining wall with well stocked borders behind containing mature trees, shrubs and flowers including azaleas.

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  • March 2004 The York stone was lifted and a new retaining wall was built from reclaimed bricks to match those used in the house.

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  • January 2006 - Various groundworks, concrete piles and round slabs, drainage manholes across site and concrete retaining wall started.

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  • Its wide range of piling techniques includes rotary bored, CFA, precast driven and retaining wall piling.

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  • To the opposite side of the patio is a raised rockery bed again with a dwarf retaining wall.

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