Example sentences of "to [art] sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's go to the sea . ’ |
| 2 | The views are stunning , looking to the sea over the Kyle of Tongue , to Ben Hope dominating the west and the wilderness of North Sutherland stretching away almost infinitely to the south . |
| 3 | ‘ It was very good of you to take them to the sea . |
| 4 | Hardly anybody else about except the schoolteachers ever thought of taking their children to the sea . ’ |
| 5 | Luke would n't come to the sea in the finish . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We have n't come to the sea in three years . |
| 7 | There were views to the sea , views west towards Reykjavik , in fact views in every direction , as long as it was down . |
| 8 | Close to the sea Breiđ3amerkurjökull , a broad flat snout of Vatnajökull , dies into this lake , the melt water exiting along a wide , fast channel into the sea . |
| 9 | for the winter traveller the climate is harsh , very cold , very windy and very close to the sea . |
| 10 | Tony whispered as we carried our boats to the sea . |
| 11 | We are paddling at 45 degrees to the sea so on every wave the paddle must be just so to stop the boat going over . |
| 12 | Ahead , I could see the twin towers of the Severn Bridge , beneath which the two rivers meet before completing their journey to the sea . |
| 13 | The great Te Deum and Jubilate in D are generously supplemented with four major verse anthems-My Heart Is Inditing , O Sing Unto The Lord , They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships and Praise The Lord , O Jerusalem . |
| 14 | The Council is , thanks to the SEA , more than ever the true ‘ Parliament ’ of the European Community in that it — rather than the Strasbourg assembly — passes the Community 's laws and does so , moreover , behind closed doors in ways which would not be tolerated in any individual national member state . |
| 15 | Some cities , including Venice , can also build defences across critical connections to the sea . |
| 16 | Romance and mystery were added to the place when Meade Falkner wrote Moonfleet , the classic children 's adventure story which was loosely based on this family and hamlet , though set nearer to the sea . |
| 17 | There were few potential trouble spots , in which British forces were likely to be involved , that were not reasonably close to the sea ; and naval forces had the advantage of being able to lie out of sight over the horizon during periods of tension . |
| 18 | As the ages passed , a few land mammals , the distant ancestors of today 's whales and dolphins went back to the sea , and gradually changed shape as they adapted to an underwater environment . |
| 19 | The earliest cetaceans are thought to have been related to primitive ungulates or hoofed mammals , who returned to the sea some 50 million years ago . |
| 20 | At each stage of their return to the sea , they became specialised to their particular habitat , some going back into freshwater rivers , others frequenting shallow coastal waters or the deep oceans . |
| 21 | Paradoxically , although surrounded by water , dolphins , like other marine mammals , tend to lose water from their bodies to the sea . |
| 22 | When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air . |
| 23 | When they come out , they are fry ; as they grow a little , they become parr ; larger still , they turn into smolt and fizz off down to the sea . |
| 24 | The Sussex coast was best seen at a distance , though , for proximity to the sea causes human beings to create great ugliness . |
| 25 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 26 | Most of them are well-meaning , public-spirited souls with little desire for glory , committee people prepared to serve their lives huddled over blotters in council chambers from the broadcasting authorities to the Sea Fish Authority , successor to the legendary White Fish Authority . |
| 27 | ‘ I like to get down to the sea and talk to the waves , ’ one housewife said to another , on the bus . |
| 28 | ‘ A long drive to the sea . ’ |
| 29 | In fact , genetical analysis of plant ‘ ecotypes ’ ( i.e. populations adapted to a particular habitat , for example growing close to the sea ) shows that sometimes rather few gene mutations can cause most of the morphological change . |
| 30 | IF ALGERNON Swinburne had been an able seaman he might have referred to the sea as ‘ the oggin ’ but certainly not as ‘ the great sweet mother ’ , which he did . |