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Sentence Examples In Andrew's day they had drifted up and down the firth lifting nets dripping with moonlight and herring. He opened the scoring with a penalty and made the most of a firth fumble to race 80 metres up field, and add the conversion. One plane I would like to find here is the Junkers 88a bomber that crashed several miles south of the firth near Aberlady Bay. The company's plan has already attracted more than 430 objections, from both Scottish and English sides of the firth. It is often difficult to see, and certainly less noticeable than the oil rigs in the firth. There, clear, was Arthur's seat, the Georgian grid of the new town, the apron of streets spreading downhill, northwards, to Leith and to the firth. But the fact these rigs are in the firth at all is bad news. But the lights of the killer fleet still glittered in the firth. German U-boats would wait silently in the firth for targets. Various smaller firths and bays are inlets of the firth, including the Cromarty Firth and the Dornoch Firth. The entire train fell into the firth, with the loss of 75 passengers and train crew. The firth is important for nature conservation and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. In 2008, a controversial bid to allow oil transfer between ships in the firth was refused by Forth Ports. The Kincardine Bridge, the Clackmannanshire Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge carry traffic across the firth. In Norway and Iceland, the usage is closest to the Old Norse, with fjord used for both a firth and for a long, narrow inlet. For some time during the glaciation, the whole of nowaday's Moray firth was a huge glacier. The Cowal peninsula extends into the Firth of Clyde and forms the main upper firth west shoreline. Renfrewshire and Ayrshire are on the other side of the Firth of Clyde, while Bute was a county comprising the islands in the firth. The hotel, which opened in 1974, sits high above Langbank and the grounds have stunning views over the Firth of Clyde. Where other anthropologists exoticised or patronised, Firth humanised the people about whom he wrote. Show More Sentences But it's interesting to see the number of rigs piling up in the Cromarty Firth. This farm grain bin near Firth was typical of the storm damage that extended from central to eastern Nebraska. There is little or no subsistence harvesting of Dolly Varden charr from the Firth River. The five sentences are to run concurrently, meaning Firth will serve three years in custody in total. He has been working the land at Mersehead, on the Solway Firth, for 30 years, and knows it like the back of his hand. The back commands terrific views over the Dean Village and the Firth and Forth, the horizon bristling with spires and treetops. Police are appealing for information following the theft of a large sum of money from a property in Firth. Sharp and funny, this adaptation also sees Colin Firth and Hugh Grant square up for a comedy barney as love rivals. The Firth of Tay glittered like crumpled silver foil, and the city shone with an inner light. Fire investigation teams were at the scene but Mr Firth said it was too early to say what caused the fire. Many Allied ships were torpedoed during World War 2 by the dreaded German U-Boats, which actively patrolled up and down the Firth of Forth. The views open out to the north-east, across the treacherous Pentland Firth to Orkney, as you reach Portskerra pier. While a child, she nearly drowned in the Firth when she swam out of her depth and, exhausted, let the waters close over her. The group will meet Cromarty Firth Port Authority later this month to discuss options for mooring the vessel. Birdwatchers have been flocking to the shores of the Firth of Forth after thousands of South American seabirds made an unscheduled stop. She drew my attention to a recent wreck dive in the Firth of Forth and enclosed lurid Scottish newspaper cuttings about it. The Firth of Lorn is so full of warring tiderips sluicing through deep, slender channels between the swarming islands, it is seldom still. Southwest of the Dornoch Firth, the Sgurr Beag Thrust divides the Moine rocks into two major nappes. The views are spectacular, augmented by a flotilla of yachts whose owners favour the location as an essential stopover on the Firth of Clyde. The views were extensive, out over the haughs of Abernethy and Cromdale towards the waters of the Moray Firth. Show More Sentences A professor of microbiology at the university discovered the bacteria earlier this year growing on fucus seaweed in the Firth of Forth. The men were questioned about an alleged incident in which a motorcycle pillion passenger fired shots into a garden at The Oval in Firth Park. I'm not at all attracted to Colin Firth, but as Mr Darcy, wahay, the man could brood and simper all he liked around me! Back outside the day centre in Inverness, a chill wind blew off the Moray Firth, a foretaste of the approaching winter. It is hidden away and surrounded by park land and woods, with views to the north over Dunbar to the Firth of Forth. Fifty years ago on October 26 black clouds swirled over the mouth of the Firth of Tay as the east coast of Scotland was buffeted by fierce winds. The research was carried out among the 130-strong bottlenose dolphin colony living in the Moray Firth on the east coast of Scotland by a team from Aberdeen University. A carlin undertook to carry a large hill from Ayrshire to Ireland, but she dropped it on the way to form what is now Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde. He put his family into boats and pushed them out into the Firth of Forth while the marauders came through his property and fought the Hanoverians, so no lives were lost. The view across the Firth of Forth to East Lothian is expansive, from North Berwick Law in the distance to the impressive Bass Rock jutting out of the Forth. The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl. This also allows her to examine those peculiarities of current and shoreline that make stretches of water like the Pentland Firth such rich pickings for local wreckers. Sheltered, deep-water anchorages like the Cromarty Firth are scarce. Another Country then became a hit film in 1984 with Everett reprising his role as Bennett and Firth as Judd. The order, which came into effect on September 4, extended bans on killing either common or harbour seals in waters around Scotland, and grey seals in the Moray Firth. Though Everett's flamboyant-yet-vulnerable performance is the showcase, Firth is his perfect foil as the deliciously snotty malcontent Tommy Judd. Colin Firth, who had played Bennett, then played Judd in the 1984 film of Another Country directed by Marek Kanievska. Mr Firth said that Yorkshire business people were also becoming better networkers and he expected many businesses to benefit from deals secured at the event. Such was the popularity of these drinking dens that to meet the demand at the height of the boom in 1760, the Firth of Forth yielded 30 million oysters a year. The weather in the Firth of Forth that day was night was described by Forth Coastguards as horrendous with gales, rough seas and freezing temperatures. Show More Sentences Magic in the moonlight co-stars Colin Firth and Emma Stone paid their respects. All streams to the north eventually flow into the Solway Firth, and those to the south flow into Morecambe Bay. The line of joining, or suture, is approximately under the Solway Firth and Cheviot Hills. The River Eden is a river that flows through the Eden District of Cumbria, England, on its way to the Solway Firth. On the northern side of Cross Fell there are also fine views across the Solway Firth to the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Firth was supposed to voice-over the Peruvian bear but he could not find the right voice for the anthropomorphised animal. Look, like colin Firth in my movie, I only wish they were real. Firth is the owner and operator of Bar-B-Que Bob's and Turtle Beach Wear in Kenora. Here, LORNA FRAME introduces you to Bine, Firth, Alex, Archie, Hooper and Mac. A group of bottlenose dolphins worked up quite an appetite hunting in Scotland's Moray Firth. He decided to abort the trip and return to port but on their way back the Diamond hit a rock and sank in the West Burra Firth. Widower Colin Firth needs the help of Emma Thompson's snaggletoothed Nanny McPhee. At this point, Firth basically re-enacted the bank robbery scene, with the famous illegible stickup note. Thurman is tolerable, Firth stretches himself to play yet another stuffed shirt while Morgan irritates like an jockstrap made from asbestos. The company, which supplies metal gauge blocks for the manufacturing industry, has moved from Broomfield House at Firth Street, Huddersfield. The dialect was spoken from the Humber, now within England, to the Firth of Forth, now within Scotland. During and after the Roman era, the Britons lived throughout Britain south of the Firth of Forth. James Watt was born on 19 January 1736 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, a seaport on the Firth of Clyde. Cornish evolved from the Common Brittonic spoken throughout Britain south of the Firth of Forth during the British Iron Age and Roman period. Cumbria's northern boundary stretches from the Solway Firth from the Solway Plain eastward along the border with Scotland to Northumberland. Show More Sentences In 2011, Oldman was voted as a film icon by Empire readers, with the award presented by Colin Firth. The film was directed by Tomas Alfredson and featured Gary Oldman and Colin Firth. The Trident nuclear missile system is based at Coulport weapons depot and naval base of Faslane in the Firth of Clyde area. Situated in Scotland's Central Belt, Edinburgh lies on the Firth of Forth's southern shore. Emboldened by the truce, Balliol dismissed most of his English troops and moved to Annan, on the north shore of the Solway Firth. His intended landing in the Firth of Forth was thwarted by the Royal Navy, under Admiral Byng. They left Perth on 10 October, and were ferried across the Firth of Forth from Burntisland to East Lothian. The English section of the Irish Sea coast ends at the border with Scotland in the Solway Firth. The Pentland Firth is not an inlet, but the strait that separates the Orkney Isles from the mainland. Other strong tides are to be found in the Pentland Firth between mainland Scotland and Orkney, and the Grey Dog between Scarba and Lunga. Stronsay and Papa Stronsay lie much further to the east across the Stronsay Firth. Moray Firth Radio broadcasts throughout Orkney on AM and from an FM transmitter just outside Thurso. The island lies in the Firth of Clyde between Ayr and Ardrossan, and Kintyre. Other islands in the Firth of Clyde include Bute, Great Cumbrae and Inchmarnock. The Kilbrannan Sound is a large arm of the Firth of Clyde, separating the Kintyre Peninsula from the Isle of Arran. The Firth encompasses many Islands and Peninsulas and has twelve ferry routes connecting them to the mainland and each other. The Firth of Clyde like the River Clyde has historically been an important centre of shipbuilding and shipping. Geologically, the Firth of Forth is a fjord, formed by the Forth Glacier in the last glacial period. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea. Dundee sits on the north bank of the Firth of Tay on the eastern, North Sea Coast of Scotland. Show More Sentences The castle stands on a shallow tip projecting into the Firth, alongside two beaches, one of sand, the other of pebbles. Firth opined that Lilburne had gained a great reputation for courage and seems to have been a good officer, but his military career was unlucky. This practice has also been observed on the Paddle Steamer Waverley when operating in and around the Firth of Clyde. Upon reaching Airth on the south shore and Kincardine on the north, the river begins to widen and becomes the Firth of Forth. In the 1990s researchers discovered new possible Roman fortifications north of Inverness and the Moray Firth. Inverness is linked to the Black Isle across the Moray Firth by the Kessock Bridge. In 82, he moved with his troops and a unit of the fleet along the east coast of Scotland, into the regions north of the Firth of Forth. One of these was founded at Abercorn on the south coast of the Firth of Forth, and Trumwine was consecrated as Bishop of the Picts. Across the Pentland Firth ferries link Caithness with Orkney, and Caithness also has an airport at Wick. The surrounding waters of the Pentland Firth and the North Sea hold a great diversity of marine life. The river Nith runs through Dumfries toward the Solway Firth in a southwards direction splitting the town into East and West. Unlike other parts of the west coast of Scotland, the Solway Firth is generally devoid of islands. The largest city on the river, Dundee, lies on the north bank of the Firth. It encompasses the Moray Firth and adjoining land areas, Caithness, Orkney and parts of Shetland. A number of rivers flow into the Moray Firth, including the River Ness, the River Findhorn and the River Spey. The Pentland Firth has its eastern mouth at the Moray Firth's northern boundary. The Moray Firth is visible for considerable distances, including a long range view from as far to the east as Longman Hill. Basically, the Moray Firth is of tectonic origin, related to the Great Glen Fault. The popular wildlife viewing area located at Chanonry Point host some spectacular displays of dolphins within the inner Moray Firth. The Inner Moray Firth is designated as a Special Protection Area for wildlife conservation purposes. Show More Sentences The specific bassanus is from the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth, which holds the world's largest colony of northern gannets. Fife is a peninsula, located between the Firth of Tay in the north, the Firth of Forth in the south and the North Sea in the east. During World War II a Royal Observer Corps watchtower was sited here giving a wide overall view of the Firth of Clyde. Irvine is situated in low lying Ayrshire overlooking Irvine Bay on the Firth of Clyde. Holy Loch was one of several locations on or near the Firth of Clyde considered for the refit site. Both the Gare Loch and Loch Long are sea lochs extending northwards from the Firth of Clyde. Prior to the construction of the bridge, ferry boats were used to cross the Firth. In December 1883, a male humpback swam up the Firth of Tay in Scotland, past what was then the whaling port of Dundee. The campaign featured the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the Solway Firth, currently in development. The freshwater Lake Orcadie existed on the edges of these eroding mountains, stretching from Shetland to the southern Moray Firth. This now brought it into contact with the 2nd Battle Squadron, coming from the Moray Firth. The northernmost location cited in Britain at the Firth of Clyde is now northern Scotland. In the context of the Historia, the 'mare Frenessicum' coincides nicely with the Firth of Forth. The Moray Firth is one of the most important places on the British coast for observing dolphins and whales. It is bounded to the west by the Solway Firth, part of the Irish Sea, and by the Lake District fells to the east. North of the area defined by Wainwright the countryside takes on a moorland character, gradually declining toward the Solway Firth. The first relates to the position of Portmahomack on the Moray Firth in the heart of Pictland. The East Coast Main Line crosses the Firth of Forth by the Forth Bridge. Colin Firth is bearded, bouffant and miscast as one of the investigators. Firth, the legendary maker of drumsticks, is now a part of the housewares world with a line of gourmet peppermills and rolling pins that his company, Vic Firth Inc. Show More Sentences The unique experience of the Cape Town team with over 1 000 patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia is documented comprehensively by Jean Firth and David Marais. There are scattered outcrops along the north coast of the Solway Firth. Grasmoor and its supporters restrict the southward panorama, but there is no such obstruction to the north, the Scottish Hills being visible across the Solway Firth. Carrock Fell is bounded to the south and east by the River Caldew into which all drainage from the fell goes to find its way eventually to the Solway Firth. The final quarter is taken up by the coastal plain and the distant Solway Firth, backed by the hills of Galloway such as Merrick, Criffel and Broad Law. Paddle steamer PS Waverley steaming down the Firth of Clyde. From this line, the headland projects westward and northward into the Atlantic Ocean and the Pentland Firth and shelters the more southerly waters of Dunnet Bay. Flying boats operated from the loch to protect allied shipping making its way to Liverpool or Glasgow either via the North Channel or the Firth of Clyde. The company was persuaded to install this train ferry service for the transportation of goods wagons across the Firth of Forth from Burntisland in Fife to Granton. Their main route went from Glasgow down the Firth of Clyde through the Crinan Canal to Oban and Fort William, and on through the Caledonian Canal to Inverness. Located in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland, overlooking the Firth of Forth, Muirfield is one of the golf courses used in rotation for The Open Championship. The Brittonic languages derive from the Common Brittonic language, spoken throughout Great Britain south of the Firth of Forth during the Iron Age and Roman period. First Rosyth in Fife was considered then Invergordon at Cromarty Firth. There is currently no working port at Stirling but there are plans to develop the river and the harbour which might include links with towns on the Firth of Forth. Stirling's key position as the lowest bridging point of the River Forth before it broadens towards the Firth of Forth, made it a focal point for travel north or south. Below Perth the river becomes tidal and enters the Firth of Tay. The Ministry of Defence had by 1999 fired more than 6,350 depleted uranium rounds into the Solway Firth from its testing range at Dundrennan Range. The Solway Firth forms the estuary of the River Eden and the River Esk. The situation was transformed by the arrival of the English fleet in the Firth of Forth in January 1560, and the French retreated to the stronghold of Leith near Edinburgh. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Show More Sentences The name Pentland Firth can be read as meaning Pictland Fjord. Local tradition says that the citizens fought off the Clan Donald in 1340 at the Battle of Blairnacoi on Drumderfit Hill, north of Inverness across the Beauly Firth. In the summer of 79, he pushed his armies to the estuary of the river Taus, usually interpreted as the Firth of Tay, virtually unchallenged, and established some forts. Banks lived in North Queensferry, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, with the author and founder of the Dead by Dawn film festival Adele Hartley. The city and its landscape are dominated by The Law and the Firth of Tay. The city's Tobacco Lords created a deep water port at Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde, as the river within the city itself was then too shallow. A great number of sea lochs adjoin the Firth, the largest being Loch Fyne. There are also numerous clusters of islands in the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde and in freshwater lochs such as Loch Lomond and Loch Maree. In this period, the kingdom of Strathclyde may have extended far to the south, perhaps beyond the Solway Firth into modern English Cumbria, although this is far from certain. Television, along with most radio services, is broadcast to the city from the Craigkelly transmitting station situated in Fife on the opposite side of the Firth of Forth. Located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore, it is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. Old Welsh records named it as Manaw, also reflected in Manaw Gododdin, the name for an ancient district in north Britain along the lower Firth of Forth. In 1972 it acquired Firth Cleveland, a hot and cold rolled strip business with a downline in sintered products, reinforcement steels, wire fasteners and garage equipment. The Svalbard barnacle goose, which overwinters in the Solway Firth, saw numbers plummet to just 300 by the 1940s but the population recovered to some 30,000 today. Examples from Classical Literature If we Cannae pass the river, we'll have to see what we can do for the firth. I 'low He meant me t' take the firth man that come, an' be content. The name in the Firth of Forth for the cottus cataphractus, or armed bull-head. Then he was put to work in a big town on the other side of the Solway Firth. Riding hard for the Solway Firth, she threw herself into a boat, and found herself safe in Cumberland. There is a pleasant view from the churchyard over Solway Firth to the Cumberland mountains. On our left as we travelled along appeared the Solway Firth and the mountains beyond, but the near country dreary. Carboniferous rocks appear in small faulted tracts, unconformable on the Silurian, on 832 the shores of the Solway Firth. When there were storms at sea, vessels would come into Solway Firth for a safe harbor. They went with the intention of taking up their quarters at Kirkcudbright, or some watering-place on the Solway Firth. Afterwards he embarked on the Hohenzollern in the Firth of Forth and sailed for Brunsbuttel. In the middle of the Firth of Forth, the area is covered in reminders of its history. We catch glimpses of Solway Firth and talk about Redgauntlet. The little village of Ecclefechan was about six miles from the Solway Firth, among the pasture lands of the bale of Annan. Brave punters parade through the town in swimming costumes before plunging into the icy Firth of Forth. The unique setting gives superb views of the Solway Firth and is a perfect base for exploring this corner of Scotland. The charges relate to more than 50 trips in the Solway Firth and off the south coast of England for which catches were not declared. The Drummore Harbour Trust snapped up the Solway Firth site from the MoD for the knockdown price without any other bids being invited. The Ministry of Defence claimed there was no risk to people living around the practice range on the Solway Firth, south west Scotland. Frances Charnley, 38, of Morecambe, is charged with breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act last January in the Solway Firth, off Powfoot. Show More Sentences From the Naze to the Sogn Firth his was the ruling influence. I have resided one season on a raised beach of the moray Firth. He would find no difficulty in swimming across the Firth of Forth at Edinburgh. Noel Vanstone have been traced across the Solway Firth to Dumfries, and thence to a cottage a few miles from the town, on the banks of the Nith. He handled her as skilfully as he had the small yawl in Solway Firth. Campaigners called for the ban after the MoD restarted target practice on the Solway Firth at Dundrennan despite fears that the weapons could cause cancer. Jack Ellis-Pownall of Meltham Lib A made a 36 break, while Upper Hopton B's David Firth made a 34 break in his win over Roger Singleton of Milnsbridge Lib. A marine industry specialist on Wearside is waiting for a verdict on plans to transfer thousands of tons of oil between tankers on the Firth of Forth in Scotland. At least 59 people lost their lives when the bridge from Dundee to Fife collapsed on December 28, 1879, sending a passenger train plunging into the Firth of Tay. For as well as braving the icy Firth of Forth at South Queensferry, he bravely used the event to spring a surprise marriage proposal on girlfriend Gemma MacDonald. Find more words! 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