landslip - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • cause: Network Rail are investigating but said a thaw, following the big freeze of recent days had caused the landslip.
  • follow: These were exposed at Evans Cliff following a recent landslip.
  • repair: Rowland also took another contract with the GWR to repair landslips in the Vale of the White Horse.

Adjective modifier

  • major: The UK portal posed specific difficulties during construction as the tunnel passed through a major landslip at the base of Castle Hill.
  • massive: This was probably the time of massive landslips in the Blackdown Hills.
  • recent: These were exposed at Evans Cliff following a recent landslip.
  • large: A zone of large, fossil landslips can be seen on the southern slope of Bredon Hill, north of Kemerton.
  • huge: At first it was feared the huge landslip may have buried a walker, cyclist or jogger out on the popular sea walk.
  • coastal: Examples include woodland clearings and rides, calcareous grassland, coastal landslips, abandoned quarries, disused railroad cuttings, and limestone pavements.

Modifies a noun

  • event: Images are annotated to indicate the effects of the landslip event upon drainage ditch failure.
  • debris: Debris loading of the benches by landslip debris from above is associated with groundwater seepage at the junctions between interbedded sandstones and clays.
  • material: Some of the vegetation seen in the October 1996 photo above, has been covered by new landslip material.
  • area: The working space was very restricted and great care was taken to ensure the construction activity did not further mobilize the landslip areas.
  • activity: Many of these structures have been activated in the last 10,000 years during landslip activity.

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