| When this part of the dyke system is breached in an apocalyptic storm, his wife and child perish in the flood. |
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| Heavy equipment was brought in to dyke and contain the spilled sulphuric acid in the ditch. |
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| Unfortunately, building a dyke in the delta will only protect the area immediately behind it. |
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| The dyke to be built will then be planted with the help of the promoter organization, its members and the general public. |
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| It narrows dramatically towards its southern extremity, becoming just 200 m wide before continuing southward in the form of a dyke. |
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| Other areas must deal with water as an inconvenience and must invest in dyke reinforcement. |
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| The dyke is basalt, a fine-grained rock that breaks easily, making it a poor climbing rock. |
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| Earth is removed at a low part of a pasture field, or in a gully, and built into a dyke or small dam. |
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| To the north-east, on the boundary of the Langholm and Jedburgh sheets, the upper part of a small stream runs along the line of the shatter belt and a trachyte dyke. |
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| B Coy made a frontal attack while A Coy, under cover of a dyke, approached the enemy's right flank unobserved. |
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| But such supposedly supportive pieces were fingers in the dyke amid the deluge of negative articles. |
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| Normally the aboiteau was placed on the bed of a stream or creek and was integrated into the wall of a dyke. |
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| Liverpool managed to stick their fingers in the dyke during the second half. |
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| The mayor's plan was successful, as the ship was lodged firmly into the dyke, reinforcing it against failure and saving many lives. |
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| The gold vein is continuous within a deformation corridor with a thickness of over 4 metres, containing a sheared diorite dyke and a second quartz tourmaline vein of 0.8 metres thick. |
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| In medieval histories, such as the chronicles of John of Fordun, the wall is called Gryme's dyke. |
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| The great motors roaring and these huge amphibious monsters crawling like great reptiles from the sea, out over the dyke and spitting flame from their exhausts. |
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| As I told CNN, it's like building a dyke out of chicken wire. |
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| The dyke master, and his white horse, plunges into the raging sea. |
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| This dyke should be constructed in late fall. |
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| If the spill is migrating very slowly a dyke may not be necessary and sorbents can be used to soak up fuels before they migrate away from the source of the spill. |
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| There is a legend in Holland, about a little boy who saved his country from flooding by putting his finger into the dyke to stop the flow of water. |
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| A fishway was also constructed through the dyke between the diverted Harmony Creek and the marsh, allowing marsh access for most fish but excluding large carp that destroy submerged vegetation and cause increased turbidity. |
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| This year the field day activities were focused on the dyke work which has been developed upstream of the Causeway in order to mitigate against the flood tides following the opening of the causeway gates. |
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| This implies that the Mercians who built it were free to choose the best location for the dyke. |
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| Traces of an earlier dyke, Wat's Dyke, can be seen on the eastern side of Ruabon. |
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| A section of this dyke, known as the Groenendijk, was not reinforced with stone revetments. |
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| He then had willows and other trees planted along the dyke, making it a beautiful landmark. |
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| He ordered the construction of a stronger and taller dyke, with a dam to control the flow of water, thus providing water for irrigation and mitigating the drought problem. |
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| Individual broads may lie directly on the river, or are more often situated to one side and connected to the river by an artificial channel or dyke. |
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| The Mercian dialect was spoken as far east as the border of East Anglia and as far west as Offa's Dyke, bordering Wales. |
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| It runs generally parallel to Offa's Dyke, sometimes within a few yards but never more than three miles away. |
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| In 1978, Dr Frank Noble challenged some of Fox's conclusions, stirring up new academic interest in Offa's Dyke. |
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| Most recently Hill and Margaret Worthington have undertaken considerable research on the Dyke. |
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| Recently, some writers have suggested that Eutropius may have been referring to the earthwork later called Offa's Dyke. |
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| The Ministry of Defence estimates that there is well over a million tons of munitions at the bottom of Beaufort's Dyke. |
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| Much of the border with England roughly follows the line of the ancient earthwork known as Offa's Dyke. |
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| Aethelbald of Mercia, looking to defend recently acquired lands, had built Wat's Dyke. |
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| Offa is credited with the construction of Offa's Dyke, marking the border between Wales and Mercia. |
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| It is much larger and longer than Wat's Dyke, but runs roughly parallel to it. |
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| Knighton is the only town that can claim to be on the border as well as on Offa's Dyke. |
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| He retired, with his wife Lucy, and their ward, Nancy McIntosh, to a country estate, Grim's Dyke. |
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| This led to resignations of senior management members at the time including the then Director General, Greg Dyke. |
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| Dyke, having expressed a preference for the tomb as a place of residence, went on his gloomful way shedding green paint on one side and red on the other. |
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| Looking east along the Downs towards the Devil's Dyke, Sussex. |
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| Offa's Dyke, most of which was probably built in his reign, is a testimony to the extensive resources Offa had at his command and his ability to organise them. |
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| The best known relic associated with Offa's time is Offa's Dyke, a great earthen barrier that runs approximately along the border between England and Wales. |
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| He also seized Morgannwg and the Kingdom of Gwent, together with substantial territories east of Offa's Dyke, and raided as far as Chester and Leominster. |
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| In 1955 Sir Cyril Fox published the first major survey of the Dyke. |
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