Example sentences of "that the earth is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't mean learning facts like ‘ Lemur is the capital of Peru ’ or that ‘ St Tracy is the patron saint of the dormer window ’ ( we can learn things that are false : learning is not mere information pick-up ) , but acquiring concepts such as what is to count as a ‘ chair ’ , that weight is conserved through transformations of shape , that the earth is a heavenly body circling a larger heavenly body . |
| 2 | Non-corpuscular radiation is in the form of high energy X rays which , assuming that the earth is in the path of the rays , will reach the earth in fifteen minutes . |
| 3 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's well known all over , that the Earth is horrible , ’ says the visitor . |
| 5 | Twenty times over you repeat that the earth is your mother , and about chieftainship of the earth . |
| 6 | The visitor from beyond the planets would obtain the impression that the Earth is a very peaceable place , when in fact three-quarters of all satellites launched have been controlled by military planners and virtually every country 's space programme was originated by the desire of war chiefs to develop rockets that would carry high explosives or nuclear bombs . |
| 7 | Many scientists believe that the Earth is not the only place in the Universe inhabited by intelligent life , so much so that radio telescopes are being used to search for them . |
| 8 | This ensures that the earth is enriched and is not overworked . |
| 9 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 10 | In 1965 , Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson , of the Bell Laboratories in the USA , discovered that the earth is bathed in a faint glow of radiation coming from every direction in the heavens . |
| 11 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 12 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 13 | Bearing in mind that the Earth is only about 150 million kilometres from the Sun , the chances of one of our spores being captured by any potentially life-sustaining planet of a Centauri can be seen to be very slender indeed . |
| 14 | LEFT Glaciation in Greenland underscores the fact that the Earth is currently undergoing one of its periodic ice ages . |
| 15 | The recent apparitions in Lourdes , Fatima , Knock , Garabondal and Palma de Troyas all emphasise that the earth is faced with destruction because of the mad , male , misappropriation of God 's creative power . |
| 16 | They are therefore subdued , and scarcely noticeable to a casual reader : the " animated glitter " ( 2 ) , the " impassive earth " ( 5 ) , the " devious curves " ( 6 ) ( the fact that the earth is impassive , or devoid of feeling , suggests that it has capabilities in that direction ) . |
| 17 | Some people think that the Earth is flat . |
| 18 | We are aware of the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky each day , and we are unaware that the Earth is moving at all . |
| 19 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 20 | Copernicus 's astronomy was bold in 1543 because it clashed with the background assumption that the earth is stationery at the centre of the universe . |
| 21 | Analogously one might say " that the Earth is round is a fact " , " that Ruritania does not exist is a fact " . |
| 22 | It was once considered obvious that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the earth , yet since the time of Copernicus and Galileo , we have had to adjust to the idea that the earth is round and that it goes around the sun . |
| 23 | It is assumed that the Earth is hot enough for its outer regions to have previously been vaporized , in which case it can be shown that the material flung off forms a thin disc of gas as in Figure 6.11 ( b ) . |
| 24 | Such an imaginative concept , involving the realisation that the earth is a dynamic planet , made geology a much more attractive and stimulating subject than it had seemed earlier , and many more graduates wanted to pursue careers in such an exciting field . |
| 25 | Such an imaginative concept , involving the realisation that the earth is a dynamic planet in a constant state of movement , made geology a much more attractive and stimulating subject than the mere study of dusty rocks and fossils had seemed earlier , and many more undergraduates wanted to pursue careers in such an exciting field . |
| 26 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 27 | This proposal was readily dismissed by geophysicists who were easily able to demonstrate that the Earth is far too strong to be deformed by such tidal forces . |
| 28 | These results are important for plate tectonic theory because they show that the Earth is not currently expanding as has been suggested by a small minority of earth scientists , at least not at a rate which is significant compared with rates of plate motion . |
| 29 | It 's important to understand that the earth is actually tilted slightly . |