Sentence examples for piles and its from inspiring English sources

An avalanche begins when snow piles and its weight exceeds the load that the snowpack can bear".

The voltaic pile, and its modern descendant, the electrical battery, store energy chemically and make it available on demand in the form of electrical energy.

In less than three years, under the new plan, the pile and its concrete and steel shield should be gone.

Cathodic protection is a means whereby cathodic polarity is imposed upon the whole pile, and its operation as an anode (with consequent deterioration) is prevented.

He later supervised the dismantling of the pile and its removal to the Argonne National Laboratory (near Chicago), of which he was director (1946 56) before entering private business.

The recording studio was shut, the chateau gates padlocked and the imposing pile and its gardens abandoned to squatters and overgrowth.

Much safer terrain was Monarch of the Glen, the BBC's chocolate-box drama about a crumbling Scottish pile and its residents.

In this study, the interactive behaviour between the embedded pile and its surrounding soil due to tunnelling is investigated.

This indicates that increasing the amount of clay surrounding the piles reduces the induced bending moments and lateral displacements in the piles and thus increases its capacity to resist lateral loading.

The results indicated that increasing the amount of clay surrounding the piles reduces the induced bending moments and lateral displacements in the piles and hence increases its capacity to resist lateral loading.

One player, the "picker" for this turn, selects a book from the pile and shows its cover around.