Sentence examples for base of the pier from inspiring English sources

In entirely different styles of architecture, such as the Gothic, where the expressive function requires immeasurable proportions, there is still a measurable module given in the base of the pier.

After you've caught your fill of pompano, whiting and Spanish mackerel, retire to Hook'd Pier Bar & Grill (16201 Front Beach Road; hookedpierbar.com) at the base of the pier for a cold beer and a snack of honey-and-lime fried plantains ($5.95).

This paper describes a novel three-dimensional modelling strategy for describing the behaviour of multi-span masonry arch bridges subjected to scour at the base of the pier shallow foundations.

Fred Bollom said: "After 20 years of looking for a solution to the pier's problems in maintaining it and re-building it for the next generation, we looked at disposing our land at the base of the pier that we own, in order to plough that money back into the pier.

I stand at the base of the pier.

Decking out local battleaxe Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard (Buddug Verona James) in S&M gear recalls Allen's spirited work on 1997's Twin Town and TV's Benidorm, but also typifies the reduction of a lusty poetry to baser, end-of-the-pier ribaldry.

Fixed-end rotations, with significant longitudinal reinforcement slip, were observed at the base of the bridge pier at about 0.40% lateral drift ratio.

The presence of a foundation stone at the base of the southeast pier of the crossing inscribed "H.

The elastic fixed-base vibration period of the pier models was measured through free vibration tests as T 0 = 0.24 s (in prototype scale), which presumably does not account for foundation geometry, being therefore the same for both design alternatives.

At the base of each pier are embedded silvery emblems of the types of fish you could catch, like blackfish and sea bass.

Scouring at the base of bridge piers is the major cause of bridge collapses worldwide.