Sentence examples for was bored through from inspiring English sources

At Mount St. Helens (USA) a tunnel was bored through a mountain ridge to divert water from Spirit Lake into an adjacent drainage basin.

A total of 4.5 mile of tunnel was bored through the seven mountains.

The first 15 foot were dug, before 90.75 foot was bored through the London clay and the final 30 foot was cut through chalk.

Under sterile conditions, a central canal was bored through the length of the entire cylinder with the use of an 8 mm electrical drill.

Behind the plastic front, a dirty great hole has been bored through by the shell, wrecking the drum and turning the motor into a puddle of metal.

One of the most talked-about projects is at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, near Salt Lake City, (800) 232-9542, www.snowbird.com, where a 600-foot tunnel has been bored through the mountaintop and a glorified conveyor belt run through it to ferry skiers and snowboarders along it.

Known as well logs, the records contain data that is public in every other western state – details such as where wells are located, their depth, potential pumping rates, diameter and descriptions of the groundwater-bearing sediments and rocks they are bored through.

A major road tunnel could be bored through the Peak District to improve links between Sheffield and Manchester.

Such 'evacuated tubes' could be bored through rock, or laid on or above ground like conventional tracks.

Thin channels are bored through the material, along which the chemical components of a medication can be pumped; the redirected, carefully tuned light sets off the reaction.

Early on, water pipes consisted of downed trees where a hole had been bored through the trunk so that water could travel through it.