Prospects for local onshore oil production are good as a drilling program is underway.
Prospects for local onshore oil production are good, as a drilling program is underway.
For weeks, heavy pack ice, driven to and fro with the tides, but ever held in the bay with the onshore winds, had prevented the small boats' freighting more than their families and the merest necessities to the summer stations.
And, if coast stations are selected, eitheronshore or offshore winds should alone be included in one exercise.
Because of the dispersed way in which it breeds and because it does much of its feeding in the onshore zone (which is hazardous for boats) the pigeon guillemot is an almost impossible species to inventory by standard methods.
There are also indications that known onshore oil reserves along Alaska's northwest coast will soon be opened for development by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, landowners in the area as a result of the Native Land Claims Act of 1971.
Within a few years, onshore storage facilities and supertankers plying these waters will undoubtedly result in widespread chronic and localized catastrophic contamination of northern marine ecosystems.
Undoubtedly an onshore wind and a flood-tide bring sand into the lower reaches, for the men find it in the dredges.
Many a time I had to clear off the land, so to speak, against anonshore gale with my barge and family.
They keept me on-board with all the people until I think the 1 May, when they took me onshore in order to examine me, and about four o'clock sent with a strong gard unto the Castle.
As she still swam light, we got on board of her as many turtle as we could conveniently carry, and then, for the last time, went onshore to sleep.
Now, it was the custom of the captain to go onshore every evening to drink sangaree and smoke with the governor, and very often I went with him, leaving the ship in charge of the second mate.
The prevailing winds blow from the south and the southeast, roughly paralleling the coast or, as onshore winds, making a small angle with it.
Curve A represents the hypothetical change of temperature on a mountainous coast with temporary afternoononshore winds from a warm sea.
While attached to this float it is impossible for a /Janthina/ to sink, and hence it is that so many of these creatures are sacrificed in onshore gales of wind.
It is found of all sizes, down to one fourth of an inch in diameter, upon muddy stations in moderately deep water near the mouths of rivers; but the surest way to get it is to search the beach after a hard onshore gale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onshore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
