| It was a dusty and incredibly bumpy journey to Kabul, along roads whose tarmac had been destroyed by tank treads and missile attacks. |
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| There was something about this exposed, windswept piece of tarmac and turf which touched his soul. |
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| In addition there is a toolshed, glasshouse, a tarmac tennis court and a walled garden. |
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| Obtaining clearance from the local air traffic control, she eased off the tarmac into the air. |
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| And as the empty tarmac streets melt in the midday sun, it appears only the flies are buzzing. |
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| She said every passenger had evacuated via the escape chutes and had not jumped on to the tarmac. |
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| They also unearthed old tramlines beneath the layers of tarmac which had to be dug up. |
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| Bear left on the top to join the tarmac of the mast access road and the trig point summit pillar is passed on the left. |
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| Sitting in the carpark, watching the sheets of rain blasting across the tarmac, there really wasn't much else to do but go home. |
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| Battered cars would do their best to tear up the tarmac some more as they blatted past, mufflers long-gone. |
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| It was a vast, bleak, exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass. |
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| Its tanks motored up the narrow road, tracks clattering on tarmac, firing directly into houses. |
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| A strong set of underbody and sidebody protection elements make it a sturdy vehicle to take off the tarmac. |
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| He dropped his box of comics at his feet and the contents spilled out onto the concrete tarmac. |
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| The president's first visit, six days before the 2012 election, included the instantly famous bro hug on the Atlantic City tarmac. |
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| Getting out onto boiling hot tarmac somewhere in just your socks would, I imagine, not be the best start to a holiday. |
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| My thoughts flickered back to the night, headlights slewing across the dark tarmac, the body sprawled like a broken bird. |
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| Each touch feels like the first screech of undercarriage onto the tarmac of some unimagined homeland. |
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| The unmaintained tarmac turns into gravel and dirt, while the sparse houses have become more scattered. |
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| If the wine smelt of soot, hot tarmac or burnt rubber, you knew it was a South African. |
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| The tarmac then gives way to a stony track which is navigable by most pushchairs, assisted wheelchair users and powerchairs. |
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| Eventually, we did go off-road as the tarmac gave out and the dirt track became increasingly churned up. |
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| Pilots and airport employees at O'Hare International Airport saw a disc-like object hovering over the tarmac for several minutes. |
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| She racked the mike and went back to where Riley lay pale and still on the wet tarmac. |
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| They said that crew members told them the idea was to hit the tarmac with the gear on the left side to jolt the right gear loose. |
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| The guideway is 75 feet high in some areas and averages 50 feet above the tarmac. |
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| A tarmac path, lightly gravelled, carpeted with late and fading blossom frames the foreground. |
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| The Bombay Airport is relatively modern inside, but out on the tarmac pi-dogs chase each other. |
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| Rowlands freely admits he feels inexperienced on tarmac rallies and that he is still on a steep learning curve. |
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| But no amount of whitewash and tarmac can hide Georgian society's deeper malaise. |
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| Cross the bridge and keep to the tarmac path from here which leads back to the car park. |
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| He pulled me in a wide sweep across the tarmac, as far away as possible from our prison. |
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| If roads get too hot, the anti-skid surface of stone chippings can sink into the the melted tarmac. |
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| Top aides to President George Bush arranged a statement on the airport tarmac in Toledo, Ohio. |
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| A tarmac driveway allows for off-street parking and there is also a detached garage. |
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| He was not an expert and was not qualified to say whether the laying of hoggin as opposed to tarmac made this community garden dangerous. |
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| Known for its bare looks, tough build and raw power, it took a strong man to handle the vehicle even on smooth tarmac. |
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| He shook hands with them as he walked along a red carpet laid out on the tarmac. |
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| Commercial shipping lanes around major ports are as noisy as the tarmac at Kennedy Airport. |
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| Music and dance on the tarmac, bouncing castle and other fun activities and lots of fun. |
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| Through a stone entrance a tarmac driveway leads to the house which is surrounded by landscaped gardens and lawns. |
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| I just have this image in my head of a quiet suburban street being overrun by Aliens loping on all fours over the tarmac. |
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| Fallen leaves are swept into heaps, only to be blown away again and large palm fronds and tree branches scatter the tarmac. |
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| Immediately below the bridge, a path runs leftwards, uphill to a tarmac road where a signpost to Birnam Hill points to the left. |
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| The tarmac racing at the festival started yesterday with a speed hill climb at Oliver's Mount, to be followed by a sprint meeting today. |
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| There's a bit of a welcoming committee on the tarmac so let's go over and see who's here. |
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| To the front there is an expansive lawn with a tarmac tennis court as well as a forecourt. |
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| The A888 is a narrow ribbon of tarmac that curls and loops around the inlets and headlands of the Hebridean island of Barra. |
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| These give excellent levels of grip on tarmac and in mud, but this is at the cost of some tyre rumble and a slight loss of precision. |
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| It skips off ruts in the road and can push wide in corners, leading to one memorable moment on broken, damp tarmac, but it's all part of the fun. |
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| It was travelling at more than 140 mph as it arrowed along the 1.9 miles of tarmac at Elvington Airfield, near York. |
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| In the urban setting, where most of us live the most heartening thing I keep coming across is tarmac, and kids playing on it. |
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| The power is currently transferred to the tarmac by the standard Lux gearbox and running gear. |
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| Strewn on the tarmac in front of the airplane is luggage and cargo from the plane. |
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| At the front of the property, a tarmac driveway provides off-street car parking, while there is also a lawn. |
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| Long gone are the days when this flag carrier was considered so sacrosanct its planes were blessed by priests on the tarmac before departure. |
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| The jets sit fueled and ready on the tarmac, and pilots stand by around the clock ready to scramble them into the air on a moment's notice. |
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| Go through this and a wide tarmac lane is now followed straight ahead for the next half a mile or so all the way back to Disley. |
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| The tarmac scorched a black trail through an interminably flat landscape of spinifex bush. |
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| This is ballet on tarmac and the high speeds involved make this an awesome spectacle. |
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| A decision to replace a paving stone surface in historic Corsham town centre with tarmac in a road safety scheme may be reversed. |
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| Then, quite suddenly, the tarmac gave up so that we found ourselves bumping along a strip of white coral rag. |
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| It also has a large tarmac sports area, for tennis, basketball and five-a-side soccer. |
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| Eyewitnesses reported that one of its wingtips hit the tarmac and the jet crashed through an airport fence and then exploded. |
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| A healthy baby boy was delivered in the back of the helicopter on the tarmac at the Comoro Airfield. |
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| Sets of parallel lines painted on the tarmac led him to the passport control kiosks and the customs sheds beyond. |
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| Five minutes down the tarmac and we take an open and contouring track south-east. |
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| In 1993, any reasonable facsimile of civilization would have had me committing indecencies with the bus station tarmac. |
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| These had been knocked down by the force of the wind and now lay face down on the tarmac. |
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| The club is to tarmac an area at the front of the pitch, to turn it into a car park. |
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| Later, after touching down on the scabby tarmac, I skated through Customs in Lima. |
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| An engine rumbled behind him then the sound of old tyres screeching against the tarmac. |
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| Although the cars were illegally parked in bus stop clearways, the correct signage, a big yellow B, has not yet been painted on the tarmac. |
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| We start with a gated road tarmac warm up to find a steep climb up the west flank of the valley. |
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| Unable to control his bike, he landed on the tarmac like a sack of spuds. |
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| Who has access to the tarmac side of our airports and other aeronautical facilities? |
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| I'm sure that many people, the local schools' caretakers in particular, will join me in asking why we can't have a weatherproof, clean tarmac path to enjoy. |
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| Upon landing, he was reportedly spotted wandering the tarmac with only a comb in his pocket. |
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| The bus juddered a final time before gaining the safety of tarmac. |
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| Of course, plenty of travelers also arrive via the tarmac, ready to reel in monster tuna, trek the hills, and take in the views without wetting a toe. |
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| Little tarmac roads wound between the trees and little front and rear gardens were packed with small bushes that gave each property a feeling of seclusion. |
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| On December 9, Loewen allegedly conducted a dry run, confirming that he could gain access to the tarmac. |
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| The road was being resurfaced and glistened with fudge-soft tarmac. |
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| He was in very horrible condition, and I fainted onto the tarmac and had a head injury that resulted in a concussion. |
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| At one end of the long tarmac at the base a portion of an aircraft fuselage, apparently being disassembled for scrap, is visible, listing to one side like a wrecked ship. |
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| From the top of a bluff on a clear day, with the sun melting the tarmac and baking my thighs, the deep-blue arc of the horizon looks like the edge of the earth. |
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| You won't end up wondering what it must have been like 100 years ago because, apart from tarmac road and the other tourists, it's still exactly like it was. |
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| The surface of the road is made up of a surface layer of tarmac, approximately 4 to 6 inches thick followed by a concrete layer of approximately 12 or 13 inches. |
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| Waiting on the tarmac at Mehrabad Airport to board the flight that would take me south to Kerman, on the dusty edge of Baluchistan, I studied the plane. |
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| Instead of taking off, however, the plane and its passengers sat on the tarmac in a weather delay for four hours before returning to the terminal. |
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| The tarmac gang have just been back and tarmacked all 4 square feet of it. |
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| It was a relief to swap the scrunch of tyres on track for the whisper of tyres on tarmac and the view towards Langdale End was the best of the day. |
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| Am I just different to the norm since I have never been a great lover of watching fast cars speeding around a piece of tarmac for an hour and a half? |
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| It is nowhere near as big and threatening as top-end SUVs and, thanks to suspension tuned for tarmac rather than mud, rides quite well on the road. |
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| Fully equipped with a week's worth of rations, our progress from this city of contradictions leaves behind the tarmac road for rough tracks of sand and stone. |
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| Meanwhile, work has yet to start on the Calderdale side of the border, where a landslide above the road has buckled the tarmac and pushed over fence posts. |
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| Once the aircraft was on auto pilot, the captain, who had greeted me with a huge smile on the tarmac, came out of his cabin and chatted with the passengers. |
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| Many bridleways were closed following the outbreak of the disease, and riders had to exercise their horses on private land or hack out on tarmac roads. |
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| Now it's tarmac, as smooth as a Chelsea tractor might require. |
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| For a moment the only sound was the clip-clop of hooves on the tarmac. |
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| The pilot slammed on the brakes and came to a halt two thirds of the way down the runway, turned full circle and headed towards a crossroads in the tarmac. |
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| The pavement in front of the man was obstructed by a row of dirty orange cones, which surrounded a deep trench beside a mound of tarmac chunks and crumbly earth. |
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| There are innumerable bends that I defy anyone who has any passion whatsoever for motorcycling to be able to ride without making contact between knee slider and tarmac! |
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| They were kept waiting on the tarmac in Manchester for nearly three hours, before spending five hours in a departure lounge, only to be told their flight had been cancelled. |
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| However, whereas most cars feel light and unstable at high speeds, this one stays glued to the tarmac, thanks to its clever underbody diffusers, which sucks the car down. |
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| New tarmac paths were also promised, along with the removal of rusty iron railings and better privacy for people living in the ground-floor flats. |
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| A few kilometres from the last former Soviet army checkpoint, the tarmac ends and the journey to Ground Zero continues off-road, across the parched and endless steppe. |
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| I have lost count of the lunching conversations I've missed because of wailing sirens, farting trucks and the dulcet thrub of pneumatic drill tucking into tarmac. |
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| First they clung to each other, then they erupted into tears and broad smiles as they hugged mothers and fathers on the tarmac of Tokyo's Haneda airport. |
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| In a flurry of action, loadmasters do what they do best on a C-17 Globemaster III as they wait anxiously on a busy tarmac. |
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| Each season normally consists of 13 rallies driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. |
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| These same schlieren can be observed when hot air rises off the tarmac at airports or desert roads and is the cause of mirages. |
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| The Wick Airport at Wick in Caithness, Scotland, is one of the few airports that still have real tarmac runways. |
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| It included many modern features, including banked turns, guard rails and reinforced concrete tarmac. |
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| The smartly turned out PAF ground crew received the aircraft at the tarmac. |
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| The tarmac road glistened oilily, the sun poured down, there was a strong smell of warm tar. |
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| The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby. |
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| Follow the tarmac road veering away from the tree line on your left towards another tree line ahead. |
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| My suggestion was that the tarmac be sloped down to meet the road, preventing kerb damage and, of course, not damage car tyres as a kerb might. |
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| In 1903 Hooley formed Tar Macadam Syndicate Ltd and registered tarmac as a trademark. |
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| But they also used newly-laid tarmac to secure the old post, which partly obscures the new sign. |
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| Denby Dale Parish Environment Trust, supplied PS1,000 funding for the new raised bed, sand box and tarmac. |
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| Certainly not a tarmac burner but standing start times are not what these cars a remeant to beabout. |
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| From there, vehicles will use the existing tarmac access road on Wigg Island. |
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| Tattersalls, adjacent to the County Stand, has no seating but stepped terracing and a large tarmac area down to the rails. |
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| The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road. |
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| At the western end of the tunnel the old concrete and tarmac platforms still stand. |
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| The surfaces of these routes can vary from broken tarmac and gravel to only grass, often having the appearance of byways. |
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| Later a mixture of coal tar and ironworks slag, patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley as tarmac, was introduced. |
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| Stations also received new tarmac platforms, green and cream painted seating, new waiting shelters and 'heritage' style station name boards. |
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| There was insufficient hardstandings to accommodate all the aircraft so many had to be parked on the turf, some areas being supported by tarmac. |
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| And Cavendish had to pick himself off the tarmac again yesterday to finish a creditable third behind German sprint beast Marcel Kittel in front of huge crowds in Liverpool. |
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| It shall be new VA-lines and roads will be re-established with tarmac. |
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| Sources tell eTN that planes are currently stuck on the tarmac, with some planes which are as close as a few inches to their respective jetbridges unable to move. |
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| The use of asphalt, concrete and tarmac for any layer is prohibited. |
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| The 65' Stand Mount Retractable Belt creates a highly visible barrier in seconds and is specifically designed to assist tarmac boarding and deplaning at airports. |
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| For at least five years, bricks in New Street have not been replaced after maintenance works, instead tarmac has been loosely packed into the holes. |
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| Perhaps she thought that by taking the huge gamble of misspeaking one more time about her narrow escape on the tarmac at Tuzla, she could compensate for misvoting on Iraq. |
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| The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road. |
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| A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac. |
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| Nottingham's Radcliffe Road became the first tarmac road in the world. |
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| Passengers on domestic flights must now be allowed to deplane after three hours on the tarmac, with exceptions for safety, security and air traffic control needs. |
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| As the plane skids to a stop on the tarmac of Punta Cana International Airport, the first impression of the Dominican Republic is of openair breezeways and thatched roofs. |
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