Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after 1600 on Sunday 6 October 1990 a dramatic change in weather conditions led to hurricane-force northerly winds along the east coast of Scotland , and it soon became clear to Coastguards that a number of divers had been caught at sea . |
| 2 | Most Long-tailed Ducks are seen at sea or on tidal waters , but one or two are recorded on inland waters almost every year . |
| 3 | But as well as gaining the skills of a steward , you will also receive the general training which all members of the Navy teams need , whether they are serving at sea or on shore . |
| 4 | More than one person had died , and been buried at sea , but it was the funeral of the baby who was berthed near to her cousins which affected Ruth most . |
| 5 | She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea . |
| 6 | For the past 31 years , Scottish-bred salmon returning to your country 's most famous rivers , the Tweed , Forth , Tay , Dee , Don , the Esks , Spey and many others , have been intercepted at sea in enormous numbers by a few English boat fishermen . |
| 7 | Twenty nuclear reactors have been dumped at sea , mostly in the Arctic , seven of them containing nuclear fuel . |
| 8 | Radioactive waste had been disposed at sea by the Northern and Pacific Navies and the Murmansk merchant fleet . |
| 9 | Thessy and I would have a chance to strengthen the rigging during our two-week trial period with the twins , but some jobs simply could not be done at sea . |
| 10 | We should like to call the attention of your readers , if we may , to the Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea in the Book of Common Prayer — still the standard authorised prayer book for the Church of England , which include prayers before or during a storm and thanksgiving for safety and deliverance , as well as the very beautiful collect which begins ‘ Prevent us , O Lord , in all our doings ’ , in which the word ‘ prevent ’ is used in its original sense of ‘ go before us ’ . |
| 11 | He had made his best friend aboard promise that he would not be buried at sea — something he had a great fear of — but on land . |
| 12 | Before 1765 Protestants were not allowed to be buried on the island and had to be buried at sea off Garajau Point . |
| 13 | My father will be buried at sea . |
| 14 | Father wanted her to be buried at sea ; Mother did not . |
| 15 | Then your mother went on about how I had always wanted to be buried at sea . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Did I ever say I wanted to be buried at sea ? ’ |
| 17 | The proposals required the removal of 579,000 cubic metres of soft silty material , of which 349,000 cubic metres would be dumped at sea . |
| 18 | The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban . |
| 19 | At present , anything excepting specifically blacklisted substances can be dumped at sea . |
| 20 | The convention establishes the principle that nothing that is harmful to human health and marine life can be dumped at sea . |
| 21 | Around 100 submarines withdrawn from service are moored at sea because there are no facilities for treating their radioactive components . |
| 22 | The ashes of a Hartlepool woman whose son died during the Falklands War were scattered at sea yesterday . |
| 23 | Wannabe Ian Bothams should order Harry 's Challenge — a giant haddock fillet ( £9.95 ) : the fish tastes bouncy and fresh in spite of being frozen at sea and transported from Grimsby , and there 's a serving of hideously verdant mushy peas on the side . |
| 24 | We were to fly across , which suited me , as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea . |
| 25 | The Russian government has published a report acknowledging that large quantities of Soviet nuclear waste were dumped at sea , in violation of international standards . |
| 26 | Roderick Newall , who has been held in Gibraltar since being arrested at sea last August , was kept in hospital for three hours ' observation before being returned to prison . |
| 27 | And then of course there was always young men being lost at sea . |
| 28 | Lowe visited the island several times after his return to Britain , and in 1874 he and his wife were lost at sea when the SS Liberia sank en route for Madeira . |
| 29 | One of the gruesome factors about this particular stitch in the Arran is that every family had its own pattern and the reason for that was often the menfolk were lost at sea and the only way they could identify them was through the pattern . |
| 30 | Eight youngsters aged 17 and 18 , an instructor and two teachers were lost at sea for hours when their vessels capsized . |