Example sentences of "[noun] down [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All I 'd need is a few fags to keep me awake and I 'd have my foot down all the way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No it 's wrong it 's upside down that 's why . |
| 7 | The implications of this fact for manipulability are great ; linguistic context can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 8 | This completeness and therefore detachment , she claims , facilitates manipulability : ‘ linguistic contexts can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 9 | Claire Taylor turned the form book upside down this time though … she took control early on and went on to win 6-1 … |
| 10 | Down under , the man who 's turned the motor racing world upside down this season . |
| 11 | Yeah , he was upside down this morning ! |
| 12 | Even if you go to a 424Mb disk for $4,800 — £4,060 — you still have plop down more bucks for more RAM . |
| 13 | There are many simple exercises you can do to help people keep moving which can be done sitting down such as ball games . |
| 14 | And what effect would cutting down all these tree have on the environment ? |
| 15 | For us , federalism means decentralisation : passing powers down more than passing them up . |
| 16 | See they got they 're head down all the time . |
| 17 | And journey he did ; from The Bar Boy would be taken home and driven at night down all those same streets down and round which he had once walked by daylight . |
| 18 | Having a vehicle break down and then struggling a mile down that pot-holed strip of mud you call a road is n't my idea of fun , I can tell you ! ’ |
| 19 | Mrs Bottomley 's announcement confirmed reports that she had opted to water down some of the Tomlinson proposals , but it still came under almost immediate attack from Labour and the unions . |
| 20 | Having to hold the button down all the time made it a bit awkward for looking out of the side window , but by craning her neck she could just manage to see the hole to the rear of the craft . |
| 21 | Charles Roe had , in places , taken his mine down some 188 feet or so below the old 17C. workings , themselves about 181 ft. deep from surface ; and had worked along the strike of the Bonsor Vein for perhaps 150 fathoms . |
| 22 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 23 | Three hundred metres down this narrow road , opposite a red sandstone church , are the meadows . |
| 24 | Move two decimal yo decimal points down those two places , alright ? |
| 25 | They went back through the gatehouse , following the line of the river bank down some rough hewn stairs cut into the rock and beneath the bridge . |
| 26 | Mandi Millar takes a walk down some of Belfast 's memory lanes |
| 27 | take a walk down some of these tracks down here . |
| 28 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |
| 29 | artery , it 's probably quite easy , the television set , then after that it 'll drop off obviously because the body is pulling the pressure down all the time , it does , okay , but if it was a vein ? |
| 30 | And I would n't want to put the pram down all those stairs . |