Sentence examples for as a retaining from inspiring English sources

The back of the shell acts as a retaining wall, while steel columns support the front.

There, part of the north wall, perhaps 15 feet high, is used as a retaining wall for a parking lot.

If typical continuous concrete footings are used, they usually support a foundation wall that acts either as a retaining wall to form a basement or as a frost wall with earth on both sides.

Nevertheless, it is not unknown for a pile to appear to be going down with little or no head damage when it is, in fact, sustaining extensive damage below seabed level that gravely compromises its efficiency as a retaining quay wall.

Therefore, BE can be regarded as a retaining wall and the wall back is upright.

Herein we describe 1H NMR spectroscopic studies of the hydrolysis of the pentasaccharide substrate fondaparinux by heparanase, and provide conclusive evidence that heparanase hydrolyses its substrate with retention of configuration and is thus established as a retaining glycosidase.

A couple talk about his work as a retained firefighter and his conservancy of the island's historic buildings.

If the position is reliable, it will be retained and referred to as a retained position; otherwise, it will be discarded and referred to as a discarded position.

When an intron had sites with coverage ≥1, it was classified as a retained intron otherwise it was classified as a constitutive intron.

COV is the effect of the pre-treatment value of GSRS-IBS, as a retained covariate in the model, on the post-treatment value.

He retired in the 1990s, but continued to support and advise small businesses as well as retaining a highly informed interest in the investment market.