Example sentences of "the [noun] of life on " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the majority of life on Earth , indeed , is underpinned by plants , which have evolved the trick of tapping solar power by photosynthesis ; or at least , have borrowed that trick from bacteria . |
| 2 | Machines are the direct products of living objects ; they derive their complexity and design from living objects , and they are diagnostic of the existence of life on a planet . |
| 3 | The sweet smell of the mass of bananas left her feeling hollow : it was no longer the smell of life on St Vincent . |
| 4 | Once they reach this state the fry will move away from the nest and face the dangers of life on their own without their father 's protection . |
| 5 | For these MPs there is both more restiveness over the aimlessness of life on the backbenches and a stronger motive for not annoying the leader on whose patronage a ministerial career depends . |
| 6 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 7 | Last month saw the start of a three-part series by Patricia Spallone on genetic engineering ( GE ) , which looked at some applications on plants , bacteria , viruses and animals and the need for feminists to put biotechnology , the industrialisation of life on the political agenda . |
| 8 | And what , pray , was The Sun Justice would be better served if there were fewer judges from Brasenose College , Oxford , and more Sun readers from the University of Life on the Bench . ’ |
| 9 | Yes it would be lovely to see a Sun reader from The University of Life on the Bench . |
| 10 | The radio and TV report the loss of life on both black and white sides , appallingly like a football score . |
| 11 | For , if man is to continue to nourish that vital part of human civilisation , which is the control over the future of life on earth , it is necessary that his definition of morality , good social behaviour , and understanding of right and wrong uses the evidence to be found within the evolutionary story and which he can then enshrine in a viable ‘ god ’ . |
| 12 | Live work was for the future and would follow when Kylie felt fully ready for the demands of life on the road — and for now there were a million other business opportunities to be pursued . |
| 13 | The ultimate outcome of this is , that without any exception whatsoever and despite all so-called ‘ revelation ’ , all religious writings have been produced entirely by man himself countless millenniums after the advent of life on earth . |
| 14 | Spiritual things are , therefore , the intangible products of the human mind , and are necessarily of human origin , that is , they have their origins in the period of evolution which started with the advent of life on earth . |
| 15 | The origin of life on Earth |
| 16 | There has been a greater emphasis on cosmic perspectives generally — such as the ‘ panspermia ’ theory ( the notion that the ‘ seeds ’ of organic life drifted to Earth from outer space ) — to explain both the origin of life on Earth and the frequent recurrence of plagues and viruses which have taken their toll of life in the past . |
| 17 | Studying the fossil record enables us to show what must have happened , but , as Stephen J. Gould has been the most recent to argue , were we to be able to wind the clock of evolution backwards towards the origin of life on earth , and then run it forward once more , quite different outcomes would most likely have occurred ; not only would there probably have been no humans , but perhaps not even any brains . |
| 18 | Our question was , how much luck are we allowed to assume in a theory of the origin of life on Earth ? |
| 19 | To be more precise , the maximum odds against the origin of life on any one planet that our theories are allowed to postulate , is the number of available planets in the universe divided by the odds that life , once started , will evolve sufficient intelligence to speculate about its own origins . |
| 20 | This means that we can , if we want to , spend virtually our entire ration of postulatable luck in one big throw , in our theory of the origin of life on a planet . |
| 21 | The origin of life on a planet can be a very improbable event indeed by our everyday standards , or indeed by the standards of the chemistry laboratory , and still be sufficiently probable to have occurred , not just once but many times , all over the universe . |
| 22 | Therefore , these meteorites are believed to contain clues about the origin of life on Earth . |
| 23 | It is petitioning the EC for a moratorium on the patenting of life on ethical , environmental and scientific grounds . |
| 24 | The five leaflets published so far cover the problem of global warming , biological diversity — saving the wealth of life on earth ; Britain 's threatened countryside ; safeguarding our seas ; and protecting Britain 's wildlife . |
| 25 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 26 | the hypothesis may seem to give a palatable explanation of the emergence of life on Earth , but it merely pushes the problem one stage back : how did life originate on the planet of these putative alien space travellers ? |
| 27 | He had been a thin , light-framed boy , and he had grown to become a lean , wiry man ; the years of life on merchant ships , and then in Australia , had left his skin looking well-used , like soft and fine-grained — but slightly distressed — leather . |
| 28 | Darwin 's great innovation , for example , was not so much in finding out new flora and fauna during his voyage in the Beagle , but in thinking about them in a new and interesting fashion ; one of major consequence for our understanding of the nature of life on this planet and driving much of biological research explicating and developing the programme that Darwin 's theory initiated . |
| 29 | Five Kingdoms : An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth by Lyn Margulis and Karlene Schwartz gives . |
| 30 | It was amazing how quickly the weeks passed as I settled into the routine of life on Koraloona . |