Example sentences of "by water [verb] from the " in BNC.

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1 The present Clanna Weir House was formerly the main card mill and one of the other mill buildings was later taken over as a saw mill , power coming from a water turbine powered by waters channelled from the ponds above the site .
2 The consumption of oxygen or oxidizing agents by water arising from the presence of reducing substances , usually organic , is of value in the assessment of trade effluents and sewage but is not of great importance for process waters .
3 A distinctive feature of the Downs are the coombes or dry valleys formed through erosion by water derived from the thawing of frozen land at the time of the last Ice Age .
4 Sands and gravels deposited by water flowing from the melting glaciers are restricted to a few localities and there are no major raised beach deposits resulting from sea level changes relative to the land surface .
5 They are cooled by water taken from the river Yenisey , which is then discharged back into the river , in contravention of recently-passed environmental legislation .
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