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Example sentences of "a part [prep] the body " in BNC.

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1	A certain amount of vaginal discharge is a normal and natural feature of a part of the body with several different if related functions .
2	The same is also true of hypochondria , an anxious preoccupation with the body , or a part of the body .
3	When a part of the body becomes infected the immune system comes into play , rushing white blood cells and immune proteins to the scene of the infection in an attempt to inactivate or kill the invading organisms and to clear up the damage .
4	It is believed that every part of the feet corresponds to a part of the body .
5	Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation .
6	Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else .
7	Usually if a part of the body is hot , or is cold , it feels hot or cold , to the person whose body it is .
8	The trouble was that the organ was in a rather awkward situation at the base of the skull , below the inion ( that is , the external occipital protuberance ) , a part of the body which , in most ladies , Nature has thoughtfully cloaked with a fine growth of hair .
9	Thus where a biologist will examine a part of the body , such as the heart , in terms of its contribution to the maintenance of the human organism , the functionalist will examine a part of society , such as the family , in terms of its contribution to the maintenance of the social system .