Sentence examples for large tide from inspiring English sources

The final case involves Evans, a recent school leaver who described how people "kettled" in Whitehall resembled a "large tide" against lines of police with officers pushing back.

The canal system in Flanders included one from Brussels to Willebroeck on the Rupel to shorten navigation by half, an 18 1/2-mile canal with four locks; another of 44 miles was constructed from Brugge to Passchendaele, Nieuport, and Dunkirk and was later extended to Ostend, while Dunkirk was linked with the Aa River, at the mouth of which a large tide lock was constructed at Gravelines.

The reefs around Mackay have unusually large tides, which might have pulled in cooler water and saved the coral there.

Around the globe, hook-shaped capes appear to effectively channel dolphins and other animals into large shallow bays that experience large tides.

In the most general terms, it is the extreme nature of the pool – the high salinity, the large tides and the enormous swings in temperature that emulate aspects of early Earth – that makes it possible for these extremophiles to grow.

The Changjiang (Yangtze) River, China, has formed a large tide-dominated delta on the western coast of the East China Sea.

Occasionally, however, the sun, Earth, and moon all line up, causing lunar and solar eclipses as well as exceptionally large tides.

Debbie Pain, director of conservation with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust said: "The Severn estuary with its incredibly large tides is absolutely the right place to be looking to generate tidal energy.

This maximizes their chances for fertilization by having all the corals release their gametes at the same time and also improves the resulting larvae's chances for dispersal because of the full moon's large tides.

Currently there is renewed interest in harnessing these very large tides for power generation in ways that avoid upsetting ecosystems, infrastructure and human activities that are presently well adapted to existing conditions.

The analysis of the data set using ETERNA 3.4 (Wenzel 1996) shows that the determination of large tides in the semi-diurnal and diurnal bands is satisfactory with results in close agreement with those obtained from the superconducting gravimeter C026 in Strasbourg (cf. Fig. 8).