Sentence examples for ancient strip from inspiring English sources

We head off, after a full British breakfast in the pub, under wide leaden clouds, winding back up the formidable face of green hillside, and make our first stop of the day at Fyfield Down, a vale studded with gorse, with ancient "strip lynchet" field terraces marking the land in italic lines.

And a third region, the anterior cingulate cortex (an evolutionarily ancient strip lying at the base of the inner surface of each cerebral hemisphere), registers a conflict between an urge coming from one part of the brain and an advisory coming from another.

Along the scenic coast of the northern Aegean Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a Greek portico, which, 2,500 years ago, would have been a bustling public space, something like an ancient strip mall.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now grieving for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent.

By James Wood Alter's translation yields an ancient text stripped of Christian ideas.

In the north lie wide areas of worn-down ancient rocks, stripped of soil by the glaciers but compensated in some measure by the coastal plains created by uplift.

When we look around here, we are not seeing the natural world or its ancient relics stripped of human presence; instead, we are reminded repeatedly that these dinosaurs might as well be posing with their once-unnoticed re-creators.

There were also rumours that some of the ancient bamboo strips he purchased for a high sum from public funds were fake.

I am guided through their familiar landscape by an ancient system of strips of paper, Post-Its, pencil markings and crisp corner-turnings, identifying landmarks and little phrases.

The state and central governments had long been concerned about the 3,500 monuments in Orissa, the largest number in any state in the country; only 500 were protected in any manner against the vandalism that had stripped ancient Indian temples of sacred images for illicit but highly profitable marketing.

The site near the Iranian city of Jiroft came to the attention of researchers only in the past 4 years, after looters stripped ancient cemeteries and hundreds of carved stone vessels began to appear on the art market (Science, 7 November 2003, p. 973).