Sentence examples for tunnelling works from inspiring English sources

The airfield, which was now designated RAF North Front, was also extended using spoil from the tunnelling works so that it could accommodate bomber aircraft being ferried to North Africa.

A considerable amount of tunnelling work has been going on in India for hydroelectric, irrigation, roads and railways projects.

The Na Fianna club, based in Glasnevin, said that it was shocked to discover that its grounds were earmarked as a construction site for tunnelling work on the €3 billion underground system announced on Thursday.

The government will also be offering an improved package of measures to reassure homeowners, including streamlined claims schemes for blight and compensation, and before and after surveys for those near tunnelling work.

Tunnelling work is about to begin on a grand scale in London as the £16bn Crossrail project gets set to build 26 miles (42km) of tunnels beneath the capital.

"The story goes that it is based on observing how worms bore through wood and this was pretty much the foundation for the main tunnelling work we are doing.

Mr Jiménez Pons told reporters that there will be no underground tunnelling work, "due to the unstable terrain" of the earthquake-prone peninsula, and President López Obrador along with other officials has taken part in traditional Maya ceremonies to "seek permission of Mother Earth" to proceed with the project.

The tunnelling work came to an end in April 1968, marking the end of the British Army's 200 years of tunnel-building.

Since the Hamas takeover it appears that Israel has not taken action against the new tunnel works that have sprung up.

Barely 50 feet away from the tunnel works, a solitary farmer picks at a row of vegetables with a hoe, his back turned indifferently to the epic project unfolding behind him.

The company's chief executive, Andy Friend, is leaving - to be replaced by the current finance director - but investors focused on news that results at its Chiltern Railways business would be hit by the collapse of tunnel works in the middle of last year, which affected passenger numbers.