Example sentences of "back [prep] earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the SS-20 rocket is still in space , diving back towards Earth , these three warheads separate and steer themselves to attack different targets . |
| 2 | They did not feel sensation , but became sensation , pulsating , thrilling , climbing , soaring , diving , and then falling back towards earth only to soar suddenly upwards again . |
| 3 | Back on earth , a trellis tent or lean-to may be erected , and clothed with a sweet scented canvas of honeysuckle . |
| 4 | But rats sent into space by Wesley Hymer of Pennsylvania State University showed that readapting , whether on Mars or back on Earth , may not be straightforward . |
| 5 | You look like you just landed back on earth or something and it 's a real shock . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My piety has been unfailing , ’ claims the singer dubiously before ‘ The Holy Mugger ’ and , as usual , God gets a good kicking ; especially on ‘ Viva Dead Ponies ’ , where Jesus is back on earth owning a paper shop in Crouch End . |
| 7 | Back on earth , how are the thousands of accountants who have been laid off faring ? |
| 8 | There , they proceeded to genetically engineer all of Earth 's large-brained mammals — primates , dolphins and whales — which the entities then replanted , fully evolved , back on Earth . |
| 9 | The great Whale had turned its terrible gaze upon her , transfiguring her once-smooth skin into sheets of light which hid deeper firefly gleams , like the Northern Lights back on Earth . |
| 10 | What do the friends and relatives of the crew feel back on earth as they await news ? |
| 11 | It has yet to fulfil its central claim which is as big as they come : ‘ Make no mistake , Christ will soon be back on earth . ’ |
| 12 | People had been awe-struck by the pictures sent back to earth by Voyager 2 of arid lifeless planets and moons . |
| 13 | The conference , Earth Mission 2000 , reflects a shift in emphasis in Russian space policy back to Earth ; and the deal with the British company Sigma Products is the latest attempt to capitalise on their space programme — the world 's biggest . |
| 14 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 15 | The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again . |
| 16 | And do n't worry : Masha will bring us back to earth tonight . |
| 17 | Tranmere 2 Portsmouth 0 PORTSMOUTH who , on Sunday , came agonisingly close to depriving Liverpool of a place in the FA Cup Final , were brought back to earth when they visited the unfashionable part of Merseyside last night . |
| 18 | ‘ I like getting back to earth , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Information from these satellites was brought back to earth at the NSA stations at Menwith Hill in Britain and Pine Gap in Australia . |
| 20 | In Rulfo 's Pedro Páramo , likewise , the frustration that embitters the eponymous protagonist 's life and the dashing of illusions that is the pattern of existence as depicted in the novel , are symbolized by an episode in which young Pedro and his lover climb a hill and fly a kite in the shape of a bird , only to see the string break and the kite fall back to earth , and the novel as a whole is punctuated by recurrent images of rising and falling which reiterate the central theme of the thwarting of human hopes and aspirations . |
| 21 | We wait in anticipation of his future coming back to earth . |
| 22 | These , although they must be travelling very fast initially , seem to move quite slowly , twisting and turning lazily in the air and tracing out elegant parabolic paths as they fall back to earth round the vent . |
| 23 | These fall back to earth as soft , squishy pancakes which pile up closely round the vent , soon enclosing it in a kind of chimney or hornito . |
| 24 | Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all . |
| 25 | Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long . |
| 26 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |
| 27 | The power of the sun would then be harvested by an array of silicon or gallium arsenide solar cells and then beamed back to earth by microwave and converted into low-frequency , alternating current electricity and fed into the USA 's grid . |
| 28 | It was the braces that brought my first step back to earth . |
| 29 | The chief of the elders says , ‘ You must go back to earth . ’ |
| 30 | As inexorable as gravity brings the high jumper back to earth , so doth the winnings of the gambler return unto him who gave them . |