1.   For instance volunteer groups create external benefits by improving the appearance of the environment, through best-kept village competitions or reclaiming old canals.

2.   After I returned to the launching site and loaded the canoe back on my car, I took a walk along an old canal path that parallels the marsh.

3.   Instead of crucifying the filmmakers, we should be thanking them for showing us the deep, dark thankless world that exists beyond the old canals of post-industrial America.

4.   The old canals and cooling basins of the steel plant were filled with the clear water that flows from a rainwater collection system.

5.   Patrol boats prowled the old canals that give Amsterdam its character.

6.   The records were all there, tucked away in an attic cupboard of an old canal house.