Sentence examples for two sets of gates from inspiring English sources

To get inside, human visitors have to pass through two sets of gates, an arrangement that made me think of a maximum-security prison turned inside out.

My own school - I walk past it often - has two sets of gates now, like a castle or a prison, with cameras mounted out of reach above them.

Secreted behind two sets of gates, the 1.5-acre estate has been the actor's home for nearly three decades.

Two sets of gates on either side of Independence Pass allow the road to be closed in winter.

His report of September 1766 highlighted the need to replace the flash locks with the more modern locks or pen sluices, each with two sets of gates.

The reconstructed lock was built on the site of the City Mill Pool, and had two sets of gates at its eastern end, to prevent high tidal levels in Waterworks River flooding the waterways to the west.

The grandest, Teddington Lock (1811), is 650 feet (198 metres) long with three sets of gates and is capable of taking a tugboat and six barges at one time.

High water releases are controlled by four sets of gates.

This has three sets of gates, and could accommodate a train of four barges when the outer gates were used.

Hunt's locks also consist of a pair, the smaller one from the 1860s and the larger one, with three sets of gates, from the 1890s.

This lock had four sets of gates, so that it could be used whether the level of the river was higher or lower than that of the canal.