(1) I think, and many other scientists think, it could be quite an important meeting point for seals coming from mainland Europe because it’s one of most eastern sandbanks of its type.
(2) Accommodation also available from £45 per person, based on four sharing Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset If you can be tempted to leave the spotless sands of Dorset's swankiest peninsula, there's plenty to do in the water.
(3) MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Read more The US television network NBC said the debris was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel, between the African mainland and Madagascar.
(4) It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil, and backed by Atlantic rainforest, with dunes, sandbanks, a lake and rocky coastline.
(5) A giant pump is working day and night, reclaiming land from the sandbanks and river beds, expanding the city in defiance of nature.
(6) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(7) Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, has warned against “undue speculation” about the earlier find, a metre-long piece of metal discovered on the Paluma sandbank in the channel between the African mainland and Madagascar last weekend, but said there was a “high possibility” it came from a Boeing 777.
(8) The aerial survey enabled researchers to count seals on the outer sandbanks of the estuary where colonies of up to 120 seals were recorded in remote and undisturbed spots away from people and boats.
(9) The survey was timed to coincide with the annual seal moult, when harbour seals shuffle onto sandbanks to shed their coats and grow a new layer in time for the winter, making them easier to spot.
(10) The sandbank was several miles from Hest Bank, where the group were reported missing.
(11) Beans (adults £10, kids £5), a family business, has been running trips to the sandbanks at the far end of the harbour for more than 50 years.
(12) Steve Barratt, chairman of the Mudeford Sandbank Beach Hut Association, said: "Back in the 1980s, the beach huts would have sold for around £6,000 to £7,000.
(13) ZSL’s spotters take advantage of the seals’ moulting season in August, when they shuffle up sandbanks to shed their coat and grow a new one, making double-counting less likely.
(14) We wouldn’t want to see dredging in the pupping [breeding] times.” A petition has attracted nearly 10,000 signatures and last month actor Mark Rylance backed a campaign against the dredging of the sandbanks , which have been proposed for designation as a marine conservation zone .
(15) The portfolio includes more than 1,300 UK residential properties and assets such as a Sunningdale home famous for once entertaining the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and a £2m house located in Sandbanks, Dorset.
(16) The actor Mark Rylance has lent his support to a campaign to stop the dredging of a stretch of sandbanks off the Kent coast.
(17) Close to Ramsgate, these common seals are unfazed by daytrippers cruising by on boats, while those out at more remote sandbanks would take flight if humans approached.
(18) I would urge people for their safety to refrain from entering the sea.” Further west, the weather halted efforts to move the huge car carrier Hoegh Osaka – which was beached on a sandbank near Southampton last week with 1,500 cars on board – away from the busy shipping lane.
(19) Though Culatra's only a mile or so offshore, we sail the long way over to avoid sandbanks and shrimp nets.
(20) Several are under investigation or awaiting pickup by authorities, but one – a horizontal stabiliser, stencilled with the words “NO STEP” , which Gibson found on a sandbank in Mozambique in late February – is almost certainly from MH370.
Submerged
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Submerge
Example Sentences:
(1) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
(2) The mycelium of Trichoderma viride grown in the dark under submerged conditions and transferred to membrane filters sporulated only after photoinduction.
(3) The units for submerged horizontal gel electrophoresis are easily made or are inexpensively available commercially.
(4) The submerged gauze technique was applied to the sampling in three different spots of the river: at the town center, two km water above, and two down-stream from the city.
(5) Two series were started with the cylinders being submerged at intervals of 5 and 40 min after the start of polymerisation.
(6) Eight of the nine clinically submerged defects exhibited positive radiographic changes.
(7) As the bath filled up, his siblings were also forced into the tub and Kristy became submerged in the water.
(8) A cultivation system has been developed for Penicillium urticae which yields 'microcycle' conidiation in submerged culture.
(9) The dominant leg was submerged in water at 10 C for 30 minutes.
(10) The first invagination occurs at an early developmental stage when non-differentiated anterior part of the larval body submerges into the external cyst which is formed by the walls of the primary cavity displaced toward the hind end.
(11) The effect of somatostatin-14 (SS-14) on gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated inhibitory neurotransmission in the dorsolateral septal nucleus (DLSN) was investigated using a submerged slice preparation and intracellular recording techniques.
(12) Moreover, the luminal surface of the mucosa is not submerged, but is air-filled, thus obtaining the physiological conditions closer to the one of the trachea in vivo.
(13) The optimal methods were the following: storage of Micromonospora on agarized media under a layer of vaseline oil, storage of Micromonospora in the form of a mature submerged culture on liquid media optimal for its growth and development.
(14) Frozen 4-5-microns sections were submerged and floated carefully during each working step.
(15) Furthermore, since only few of an individual's characteristics are used as classifying attributes, individuals themselves become submerged in the class, and their individuality lost in the scientific laws that arise therefrom.
(16) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(17) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(18) In particular, in submerged culture on a plastic surface they either produced very small aggregates or did not aggregate, one of the phenotypes exhibited by the activated rasD transformants.
(19) Mixed venous PO2 increased during abdomen submergence, and PVCO2, was unaltered throughout.
(20) Here a climate that increases in temperature will mean more extreme and frequent storms, more flooding, rising seas that submerge Pacific islands.