excavation

Examples of excavating

excavating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Excavating was elevated into an art, with the indeed convenient 'quadrant method' as the most prominent example.
The number of tunnels was determined as the number of points where termites were excavating.
When viewed from the pulmonary aspect, the opening was ovalshaped, with its lower margin excavating into the pulmonary sinus.
Excavating below the level of the niche, they found more than 10 stratigraphic levels.
Excavating eastward from the main skeleton, this team encountered the crocodile skeleton.
Buying clay from the merchants offers the advantage of saving time; traveling to the source, plus excavating and loading the clay, takes one full day.
Inevitably, the increasing market-orientation of archaeology will also lead to forms of commercialization in the business of excavating.
Perhaps the concern went deeper, excavating an anxiety about acceptance in the modern world.
Whether constructing or excavating, much hard physical work may be involved.
We may well find that this excavating capacity, as well as the financial means, will in the future prove to be inadequate to investigate all sites of archaeological interest.
Observers past and present expressed wonderment at all-night floodlights enabling 200 men and 30 teams of horses to work non-stop razing existing structures while simultaneously excavating for foundations.
During the time we were excavating colonies, there were no mating flights of this species to our knowledge; thus we can reliably compare the number of males among the colonies.
Excavating in the area at the base of the tree in 1992, we removed the contents of a pit that measured 185 cm north-south by 105 cm east-west.
Whilst excavating the cairns, banks and roundhouses, many of us found that context sheets and scale drawings were often inadequate means of describing the subtleties of construction we were encountering.
That is to say, up to what figure would he impose additional excavating costs in order to ensure restoration?
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