Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now this is clearly something which some of you have great erm knowledge and expertise in such as Colin . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All I 'd need is a few fags to keep me awake and I 'd have my foot down all the way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No it 's wrong it 's upside down that 's why . |
| 9 | The implications of this fact for manipulability are great ; linguistic context can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 10 | This completeness and therefore detachment , she claims , facilitates manipulability : ‘ linguistic contexts can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 11 | Claire Taylor turned the form book upside down this time though … she took control early on and went on to win 6-1 … |
| 12 | Down under , the man who 's turned the motor racing world upside down this season . |
| 13 | Yeah , he was upside down this morning ! |
| 14 | Even if you go to a 424Mb disk for $4,800 — £4,060 — you still have plop down more bucks for more RAM . |
| 15 | There are many simple exercises you can do to help people keep moving which can be done sitting down such as ball games . |
| 16 | So I I I 'm going switch off this this recording , you see , erm , for our Monday afternoon session . |
| 17 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 18 | But then all shopkeepers had to do was ring up less than the actual transaction … |
| 19 | With the bridge humbucker on full and the boost up all the way , the Legend emits the kind of sounds that would frighten children and small animals . |
| 20 | AS CLARIFY TIES UP MORE FUNDING |
| 21 | ‘ They 'll hold a properly hit shot , but they 'll be quick enough to test even the Swede , and they 'll put the wind up some of ‘ em . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 23 | Here we 'll just stick to initials , BM , to save writing the words out each time . |
| 24 | We 've never had the car out all day . |
| 25 | Erm , in two point four , you just do it with one key , if you want to delete a cell out that 's del . |
| 26 | It was impressive during the day dispensing flares out both sides of the UH-1 . |
| 27 | Yeah it 's er I take the car back half term , if , you know , I do n't mind driving it down there , but the thing is how am I gon na get back if I drive it down , it 's gon na cost me forty pound fifty |
| 28 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 29 | Blair again converted , and just after the break out half Keith Megarry took over the kicking duties to put Dungannon 20 points clear with a penalty . |
| 30 | And it will wheel out some real oldies to broadcast 20 hours a day , ranging from comedy to dramas ( The Onedin Line and The Duchess of Duke Street among them ) . |