Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the decisions were being made by a planning inquiry and we were the planning inspectors , would we give permission for the spending of someone else 's money on such as project ? |
| 2 | However , there is theoretical evidence that the Martian exposure to asteroids was higher over the last few 1000 Ma than in more recent times , which scales the ages down such that all but the more heavily cratered terrain is less than about 2000 Ma old . |
| 3 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 4 | Genscher 's remarks about ‘ one German nation ’ may send shivers down some people 's spines , but what is objectionable is not so much the reference to the German nation but the implied moral equivalence between East and West Germany . |
| 5 | Now this is clearly something which some of you have great erm knowledge and expertise in such as Colin . |
| 6 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 7 | Kibbutzim children too are reported to have no difficulty in relative to more than one parental figure at the same time ( Pringle , 1972 ) |
| 8 | In the latter case it seems that the court must approve the payment in pursuant to Ord 10 , r 10 , though it is difficult to see to what approval a debt or liquidated sum can be subject . |
| 9 | Erm er so far my list of what we 're going to do this week includes for Derek erm fi tracking down non-local copies of Yellow Pages by phoning people and hassling people who are about to go home . |
| 10 | All I 'd need is a few fags to keep me awake and I 'd have my foot down all the way . |
| 11 | — check your machine for any controls that have more than one setting ( e.g. the TV set may have a control for selecting TV or video , the switch on U-matic players selects audio channels 1,2 or mix ) ; |
| 12 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 13 | Sitting at peace in the garden of their ranch , high above the Californian resort of Malibu , Marjorie still marvels at the way her life was turned upside down one November night in 1973 , when she was just 19 . |
| 14 | Grabbing the pile of cloth money-bags from the corner of the desk , he turned them upside down one by one . |
| 15 | No it 's wrong it 's upside down that 's why . |
| 16 | The implications of this fact for manipulability are great ; linguistic context can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 17 | This completeness and therefore detachment , she claims , facilitates manipulability : ‘ linguistic contexts can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 18 | And the rag trade was also upside down ready on the trailer to come across , I wo n't bore you with the way they do their budgeting for example , but what happens is , my wife will go to one of those suppliers and say yes , a number of my people want to buy that dress so we want a thousand of them . |
| 19 | Claire Taylor turned the form book upside down this time though … she took control early on and went on to win 6-1 … |
| 20 | Down under , the man who 's turned the motor racing world upside down this season . |
| 21 | Yeah , he was upside down this morning ! |
| 22 | Even if you go to a 424Mb disk for $4,800 — £4,060 — you still have plop down more bucks for more RAM . |
| 23 | Or just throw it at the neighbours , thought Henry grimly , as he tipped the edenwort in next to the water-chestnuts and the giant yam . |
| 24 | However , this initial , albeit restricted , study has demonstrated the usefulness of vitrinite reflectance data in other than strictly maturation-related applications . |
| 25 | There are many simple exercises you can do to help people keep moving which can be done sitting down such as ball games . |
| 26 | Six sectors down ten percent , that of course included investment banking which we have n't touched on , but er the Lazard Houses profits were down a little less than ten percent which is rather good going , given their erm heavy specialist skills in M and A which were a little bit in short supply last year . |
| 27 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 28 | So I I I 'm going switch off this this recording , you see , erm , for our Monday afternoon session . |
| 29 | ‘ This was a golden opportunity for us and we 've been kicked out because we were so powder puff up front . |
| 30 | Mm he was on about it last night , he says well I think all we really need is to look at is two hundred pound up front , buy the equipment , couple of decent speakers , a graphic equalizer and the twin deck tapers |