Example sentences of "on [Wh det] be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It comprised a platform raised on baulks above the truck on which was mounted a rectangular water tank . |
| 3 | Susan was beginning , when just ahead of them they saw a little thatched inn and outside it a big wooden board on which was painted a half-moon . |
| 4 | Inside is a circular canal enclosing a small island on which was built a fine pavilion with domed halls and a central fountain . |
| 5 | The whole school would be assembled in the street , Mr. Windust being in charge , whilst the official party sat in the Rectory Garden , just behind the top of the wall on which was draped a huge Union Jack . |
| 6 | On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate ( the tympan ) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth ( angular distance along the horizon ) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude . |
| 7 | In May 1916 on the anniversary of the Sultan 's accession , Lij Yasu presented an Abyssinian flag to the Turkish Consul in Addis Ababa on which was embroidered the Turkish crescent and the Islamic declaration of faith . |
| 8 | His Messerschmitts all featured yellow-painted noses on which was superimposed a red heart ; they also carried the script S emblem of the Geschwader . |
| 9 | In this country civil litigation is based on what is called the adversarial system , and this means the court only decides issues presented by the parties . |