Example sentences of "around the earth " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A magnetometer , detecting changes in the magnetic fields arising from charged particles deflected around the earth , measures the effects of corpuscular and non-corpuscular radiation emanated from the sun during solar flares and other events . |
| 2 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 3 | It is a shrinking resource badly distributed around the earth 's crust , as yesterday 's warning of a continuing severe shortage in the south of England reminds us . |
| 4 | It is a shrinking resource badly distributed around the earth 's crust , as yesterday 's warning of a continuing severe shortage in the south of England reminds us . |
| 5 | Most ozone is generated above the equator , where the sun 's radiation is strongest , and then carried by stratospheric winds around the earth towards the poles . |
| 6 | The wind swirls around the Earth and its magnetic field , triggering spectacular aurorae . |
| 7 | Scientists of the time were bound by Aristotle 's philosophy , which taught that the Moon was an immaculate heavenly body travelling in its own crystalline sphere around the Earth . |
| 8 | Meteosat is in geostationery orbit 22,000 ft above the Greenwich Meridian and NOAA 6 is a polar orbiter going around the Earth once every 90 minutes . ’ |
| 9 | Cars and light vans contribute to 18 per cent of the carbon emissions which thicken the protective layer of gases around the Earth contributing to global warming ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 10 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 11 | Thousands of them looked down now as something round and shiny drifted around the Earth . |
| 12 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 13 | Astronomically , this is because as the Earth moves around on its axis every 24 hours , the Moon during the day and night moves through one-thirtieth of its orbit around the Earth . |
| 14 | As the Moon orbits around the Earth it exerts its gravitational pull as illustrated : |
| 15 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3,000m , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 16 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3bn , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 17 | Planets moved in circles , or epicycles , the centres of which moved in circles around the earth . |
| 18 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 19 | An object held at the top of a tower and sharing with the tower a circular motion around the earth 's centre will continue in that motion , along with the tower , after it is dropped and will consequently strike the ground at the foot of the tower , consistent with experience . |
| 20 | They calculated the distance around the earth , then took a fraction of this measurement as their unit of length and called it a metre . |
| 21 | You know , big thing up in the sky , whirling around the Earth . ’ |
| 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 | The zones of vegetation around the earth were determined by temperature and rainfall , and within each zone the plants all possessed similar adaptations to the conditions . |
| 24 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 25 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 26 | The synchronous rotation of the Moon around the Earth is one of several consequences of tidal interactions between the Earth and the Moon , ocean tides being a more familiar example . |
| 27 | The physical librations arise because the path of the Moon around the Earth is not perfectly circular . |
| 28 | The eccentricity of the material around the Earth is the result of the oblique viewpoint . |
| 29 | Capture is made considerably easier if the Moon was captured in small pieces , because interactions between them , or between circum-Earth gases and such pieces would readily place some of them in orbit around the Earth . |
| 30 | Moreover , if the Moon was already in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and if there was more spare material between the Earth and the Moon than beyond the Moon , then the rather greater number of large basins on the near side than on the far side can be explained . |