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Behind and sand
Behind the beach, there can be dunes ( where the dominant deposition is well sorted sand ) or a lagoon ( where fine clay and organic material is deposited ).
Behind Studland beach, an extensive system of sand dunes have formed a psammosere, stretching for miles across the Studland peninsula.
Behind the sand dunes there is a large area of heathland, called Studland Heath and Poole Harbour.
Behind Daymer Bay's sand dunes and south of Trebetherick is the St Enodoc Golf Club's golf course.
Behind the sand strip was a 120m wide cleared kill zone in which mines and tanglefoot wire fronted a line of conventional defensive positions of interlocking machine guns and pre-registered mortar and artillery fire dominate the kill zone.

Behind and sea
Behind the sea wall, the marshes were drained after the war, and reverted to farmland, but the bank was breached in the North Sea flood of 1953, returning the whole area to tidal saltmarsh dominated by sea aster.
Behind them is the sea.
Behind this wall his exercise-ground, hemmed in by a wooden fence over six feet ( 1. 8 m ) high, was a sort of narrow passage from which he could no longer see the sea.
" But the sea and maritime life are central to many of his poems, both short ( eg, " Erosion ," " Sea-Gulls ," " Silences ") and long, such as " The Cachalot " ( 1926 ), describing duels between a whale and its foes, a giant squid and a whaling ship and crew ; The Roosevelt and the Antinoe ( 1930 ), recounting the heroic rescue of the crew of a sinking freighter in a winter hurricane ; The Titanic ( 1935 ), an ironic retelling of a well-known marine tragedy ; and Behind the Log ( 1947 ), the dramatic story of the North Atlantic convoys during WWII.
Behind Britain's sea shield lay her numerically small ( but fully professional and highly effective ) army, the ' Old Contemptibles.
Behind the limiting rock between the main beach and the small, wave-sheltered Prainha ( little beach ) there is a point break named Shock due to its extremely dangerous surfing conditions, with rocks protruding from the sea floor above the water level.
Behind the cardinal mark is a sea lane opened on an ice-covered sea.
For the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines, Macht spent a week at sea filming on the flight deck, corridors, and hangar bay # 3 of the USS Carl Vinson.

Behind and wall
Behind the statue, five bronze plaques mounted on a stone wall quote King ’ s speeches calling for equal opportunities in education and a just society.
Behind the living wall is a running water supply that provides humidity during the winter months and a soothing sound for employees and visitors to enjoy all year round.
Behind the office building is a small section of wall from the colliery.
Behind the wall was a small cave stuffed with an enormous hoard of manuscripts.
Behind the dais where committee members sit, the Senate seal is affixed to a white and gray marble wall, which contrasts with the wood-paneled side walls.
** Behind this process a broad, thin plate, the ethmoidal process, ascends to join the uncinate process of the ethmoid ; from its lower border a thin lamina, the maxillary process, curves downward and lateralward ; it articulates with the maxilla and forms a part of the medial wall of the maxillary sinus.
Behind one wall was a projection booth for evening screenings of films ( often, Hollywood productions that were otherwise banned in Germany ).
Behind the Leonine Wall lies an inner wall, which was renovated and strengthened by the additions of three particularly fine hexagonal towers by Emperor Theophilos ( r. 829 – 842 ).
Behind the wall was a deep drop to the moat below, making the area secure.
Behind the basilica was the curia, where a statue of the Emperor was placed in a niche in the wall.
Behind the center field wall is a landscape decoration that reflects the typical environment of the Rocky Mountains.
At the time of the Lords of Winterau, the castle ’ s outer girding wall enclosed an extensive area, as still witnessed today by the cadastral names Hinter den Ziunen or Hinter den Zäunen (“ Behind the Fences ”) and In der Zingel or In der Ringmauer (“ In the Girding Wall ”).
Behind him are the United States and New York flags and a wall with portrait paintings
Behind this wall lay the private units, bilik, each with a single door for each family.
Behind them, on the next lap, Ralf crashed into a wall and ended up with a deep gash on his leg.
* Behind the Back Shot: Before or after the ball hits the ground the player hits the ball behind his or her back as a kind of last resort to hit the wall.
Behind the cross is a stone wall on which is written:
Behind a fake wall in the cellar, he finds the coffin of Count Cosmo Valdemar, who had owned the house centuries ago.
Behind the wall / mound a system of control towers, built of wood or stone, was installed, each within sight of the next one, and usually able also to signal to the forts several kilometers to the rear.
Behind him was a wall of televisions.
Behind these tubes are bundles of closed-cell polystyrene foam, placed between the barrier and wall.
Behind this wall is a further group of fells, commonly referred to as Back o ' Skiddaw.

Behind and lay
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.
Behind this portcullis lay the king's burial chamber.
Behind these incidents lay his family's resentment towards Lord North for refusing to elevate the Holland barony to an earldom.
Behind his numerous reforms lay a comprehensive program influenced by the doctrines of enlightened absolutism, natural law, mercantilism, and physiocracy.
Behind them lay the spent remnants of Jourdan and Houchard's columns, some 13, 000 strong, together with 6, 000 fresh troops of Landrin.
Behind the Russbach lay the Wagram escarpment, which constituted an excellent observation point.
Behind this act of retribution lay a national reawakening among the scattered Armenians in the world, which had begun in the end of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Behind Legal Quays lay Thames Street, with its warehouses, sugar refineries and cooperages.
Behind this seeming insanity clearly lay the assumption that China would support the KR militarily in such a conflict.
Behind this growth lay the rapid industrialisation of the nineteenth century which left much of the working population throughout Scotland's Central Belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh living in the housing stock built at the end of that century but accommodating far more people.
Behind Legal Quays lay Thames Street, with its warehouses, sugar refineries and cooperages.
Behind this window lay, among other things, more packages and newspaper bundles, empty cardboard boxes lashed together with rope, the frame of a baby carriage, a rake, and old umbrellas tied together.
Behind it lay the city and fortress of Megiddo, where the revolting forces had gathered.
Behind these lay the Awraba, the band of Ferhun, the Banū Walīd, the Zenata, the Banū Irnian and the Banū Merasen of the band of Qāsim, Lord of Sa.
Behind the two divisions lay a line of small craft tasked with repeating Duncan's signals so that the entire fleet could see his intentions.
Behind the music stage lay the park's worst-kept secret: a hole in the fence used by local children to sneak into the park without paying admission.
Behind this early " retirement " lay Fallmerayer's " known convictions, which, particularly in religious matters, are incompatible with the teaching profession.
Behind that fleet lay the overwhelming power of the German Army.
Behind it lay the original sanctuary of Amun, the offering table room and a later sanctuary with several side-rooms and stairs to the roof.
Behind the religious facade, there probably lay a display of realpolitik in bringing charges against the Phocians, instigated by the Thebans.

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