Sentence examples for build drains from inspiring English sources

Florida passed its first water laws to "build drains, ditches, or water courses upon petition of two or more landowners" in 1893.

Patrick McLoughlin was responding to a warning by the former chancellor Alistair Darling of a potential "nightmare" on England's existing railways if the multibillion-pound HS2 line is built, draining cash from other lines.

Money that was supposed to build better drains in Gonaïves after Hurricane Jeanne was siphoned off, says a UN official.

Rich countries build sewers, drains, dams, reservoirs, flood defences, irrigation canals and barrages to avoid such problems.

A project was launched in the 1970s to build a drain carrying contaminated runoff to the delta and thence to San Francisco Bay.

Some people even build the drain pipe with a slight curve, so it looks like an intentional design feature upon completion.

Several years after our building was built, a drain was put in on the roof above our terrace.

Banks have been built up, drains cleared and reinforced.

In medieval times, the Midfen Dyke was built to drain the area, but by 1500, this was regarded less as a drain for the land than as a boundary marker between the Parts of Holland and the Parts of Kesteven, two of the three medieval subdivisions of Lincolnshire which functioned as county councils until their abolition in 1974.

Latina's prosperity is built on drained swampland, kept habitable by six pumps as huge and noisy as airplanes, put in place in 1934 by Mussolini.

Today those things are slowly sinking back into the swamp as the canals Mr. Finster built to drain the property are left neglected.