Sentence examples for being dug to from inspiring English sources

An army spokesman said that troops were now positioned around Jenin, and that a trench was being dug to block the movement of weapons and militants out of the city.

On a remote Arctic island, a vault is being dug to house the seeds of up to 3m different crops, as part of plans to protect food supplies across the world.The Svalbard International Seed Vault, as the facility is called, will cost the Norwegian government, which is paying for it, about $3m.

What have been described as the two biggest man-made holes in Caithness are being dug to store tonnes of low-level radioactive waste from Dounreay.

Despite the coffin being built with wheels to allow easy transport, and a sloping approach being dug to the grave, it took 20 men almost half an hour to drag his casket into the trench, in a newly opened burial ground to the rear of St Martin's Church.

At schools throughout Sierra Leone, wells are being dug to provide clean water and toilets are being installed to improve sanitation.

Shafts were dug to get the salt, and each Confederate state was assigned one.

Over the years dozens of wells were dug to provide safe drinking water.

Peat is dug to supply the Saransk peat-burning electric-power station.

Canals to the south were dug to make way for agricultural fields, mostly containing sugar cane, and for urbanization.

Residents said that holes had been dug to investigate the leak, but that the problem remained unresolved.

Gravel-filled trenches will be dug to represent the outline of the sheds.