Sentence examples for ordinary ground from inspiring English sources

It could be somewhere in provincial China now, with a faint twist towards the surreal; or the UK, after a couple of centuries of resource depletion; or anywhere where dry earth and shredded plastic bags are the ordinary ground underfoot.

But a similar thrill can be had with greater intensity just a hundred yards away on ordinary ground, where tourists tentatively edge toward a precipice without guardrail or fence, and look across the ravine at a great rock formation that bears some resemblance to a giant eagle, its wings outspread.

In the absence of a few hundred spare quid to splash on a machine, I also experiment with my trusty stovetop espresso maker (which, in fact, as coffee snobs will no doubt point out, does not make true espresso, but one good enough for this purpose), some "instant espresso" and Elizabeth David's method using ordinary ground coffee.

The near-fault pulse-like ground motions are more dangerous for structures with strength degrading behavior than ordinary ground motions.

The added braced frames help to reduce story drifts, decreasing the probability of failure against ordinary ground motions.

Results showed that pulse-like forward-directivity ground motions impose a larger ductility demand to the structure compared to ordinary ground motions.

There were few complete disasters or delights at a recent dinner; instead, most dishes fell into a rather ordinary middle ground.

Hardworking, optimistic and generous, impoverished but wanting to get on, he was an ordinary man ground down by a pernicious system.

Gray points show the signals that can be attributed to the ordinary daytime ground backscatter signals.

While the ordinary proving ground of the smartphone may be the mean streets of the city, devices are to be found on the field of battle, too — and if a report from DoDBuzz is to be believed, Android may soon be giving way to iOS for some special operations forces.

These formulae, which are functions of the geometrical and design properties of the frames, are derived on the basis of seismic response data obtained with the aid of extensive dynamic inelastic analyses involving 36 moment resisting and 36 x-braced plane steel frames with steel grade S235, S275 and S355 under 84 ordinary seismic ground motions.