Sentence examples for lying offshore from inspiring English sources

During the Italo-Ottoman War of 1911 12 the city was shelled by Italian warships lying offshore.

While a narrow continental shelf fringes Siberia and the Korean Peninsula, on the Japanese side of the sea there are wider continental shelves, as well as groups of banks, troughs, and basins lying offshore.

The port facilities were privatized in 1994, and new investments in infrastructure were begun; however, it is still common at harvest time to see long lines of trucks at the port entrance, waiting to transfer their loads to one of the ships lying offshore, which in turn are waiting to use the narrow channel into the port.

While the ships were lying offshore between St Andrews and Dundee, the spires of the parish church where he preached appeared in view.

Relatively high population density also exists in Mere Lava (Banks Islands), Tanna (Tafea Province) and north Pentecost (Penama Province); and many smaller islands lying offshore of larger ones are densely populated.

Yet considerable untapped oil may lie offshore.

"It is no good for us".The problem lies offshore.

In case the Haitians did not agree, French warships lay offshore.

Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge, harbouring a rare population of rhinoceros auklets, lies offshore to the east of the city.

Six Senses, Con Dao The Con Dao archipelago lies offshore from Ho Chi Minh City, in the far south of Vietnam.

2) Furthermore, unlike many other subduction zones, the landward edge of the seismogenic zone lies offshore, allowing us to study it with relatively inexpensive marine MCS reflection profiling.