1.   Complex Markings in the ice suggest the ice often cracks and shifts, allowing what is below to ooze to the surface.

2.   Ice can crack off into the engine air intakes and cause them to shut down.

3.   Calcium slowly collects in the places where there is microscopic tearing, and it inevitably affects the muscle, as ice cracks a sidewalk.

4.   It felt as though the ice was cracking, Simon said later.

5.   Kwan warmed up deliberately, almost as if the ice might crack beneath her.

6.   Moments later, the ice cracked and the river was once more impassable.

7.   They burst out laughing when the ice cracked under his feet.

8.   Wilkinson comes across as a cold almost unemotional figure, but the ice can occasionally crack, as it did after the semi-final win over Birmingham.