Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] at sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Long-tailed Ducks are seen at sea or on tidal waters , but one or two are recorded on inland waters almost every year . |
| 2 | The mermaid did indeed return to claim Lutey and it is said that every nine years hence , one of his descendants is lost at sea . |
| 3 | Either in that or more likely the following year Earl Hakon was drowned at sea , and Olaf took the opportunity to return to Norway . |
| 4 | In the ensuing conflict Russia was defeated at sea and humiliated on her own doorstep by the fall of her Crimean naval base at Sevastopol . |
| 5 | The ashes of a Hartlepool woman whose son died during the Falklands War were scattered at sea yesterday . |
| 6 | The Russian government has published a report acknowledging that large quantities of Soviet nuclear waste were dumped at sea , in violation of international standards . |
| 7 | Yet , the fact remains that , although we are dealing with an age when history was not decided by battles at sea , the first major battle of the Hundred Years War was fought at sea in June 1340 . |
| 8 | Around 100 submarines withdrawn from service are moored at sea because there are no facilities for treating their radioactive components . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Andrew 's father was lost at sea during this tragic incident and both Judith and he spent hours in the cold Atlantic waters before they were rescued . |
| 11 | Eight youngsters aged 17 and 18 , an instructor and two teachers were lost at sea for hours when their vessels capsized . |
| 12 | She will be with her on every life-saving mission , she will see the final fulfilment of hundreds of people 's work each time a life is saved at sea . |
| 13 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 14 | And then of course there was always young men being lost at sea . |
| 15 | To make it look as though the ship is lost at sea . |
| 16 | Over a quarter of Britain 's 3.5 million wet tonnes of sewage sludge is dumped at sea . |
| 17 | About 80 per cent of British sewage sludge is dumped at sea , but this will be banned under a European convention that takes effect in 1998 . |
| 18 | The second version was lost at sea in about 1788 , so Christie 's Cockfight must be a third rendering — repainted , once Zoffany was back in England after 1788/89 , for Warren Hastings , the East India Company administrator in Bengal — bearing out the later inscription ‘ Cock fight at Lucknow painted by Zoffany ( circa 1790 ) ’ on the bottom of the painting . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This funny fat fool , this symbol of old-style decency was drowned at sea the other day just after declaring how happy he was to be alive . |
| 21 | THE body of Scottish outdoor equipment retailer Graham Tiso was buried at sea in a Viking-style funeral in June , following his sudden death in the West Indies . |
| 22 | By 1971 , however , Charles was in the Navy and much of his time was spent at sea . |