Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Judge is currently chairman of Food From Britain , a pressure group aimed at promoting the UK 's producers and farmers . |
| 2 | Mr Gibbons is also chairman of bottle water company Highland Spring . |
| 3 | Another aspect of the protective function for HDL is possibly reduction of LDL uptake by competitive binding with the LDL receptor , thereby reducing the cholesterol supply to the endothelial cell ( Miller et al , 1977 b ) . |
| 4 | The cost of performing a screening test for CRP in the UK is currently £0.50–0.60 per test . |
| 5 | Iran is already 10% over quota , Kuwait 35% and the UAE nearly 50% . |
| 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 | Thirty six year old Mr Jenkins is currently editor of news and current affairs at Scottish . |
| 8 | Thirty six year old Mr Jenkins is currently editor of news and current affairs at Scottish . |
| 9 | Watts is actually energy per second but if we think of it in terms of hours cos we 've bought by , by , by hours . |
| 10 | And Mr Stephen Dorrell is still Minister of Health . |