noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
drill
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If we drill a borehole into the aquifer the groundwater will be under sufficient pressure to overflow from the borehole.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An inventory of boreholes is to be compiled and a survey of dug wells will be made.
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But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975, the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere.
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Geological maps have been digitised together with the lithology and stratigraphy derived from over 1250 boreholes and geophysical logs from over 70 boreholes.
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If we drill a borehole into the aquifer the groundwater will be under sufficient pressure to overflow from the borehole.
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No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs, although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there.
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Resistivity methods have been developed for investigating fracturing in boreholes.
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They are large, and hence the chances of recovering complete specimens from all boreholes is relatively low.
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Welds split because of continual use, and poorly constructed boreholes let sand and grit into the well water.