Example sentences of "[pron] the body " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 2 | In one sense , all the genes in a body are ‘ parasitic ’ genes , whether we like to call them the body 's ‘ own , genes or not . |
| 3 | ‘ With them the body just disintegrates . |
| 4 | He glanced over at the mound of tablecloths hastily borrowed from the tables of the unused tea-stall , under which the body of the late Councillor Phipps was now reposing . |
| 5 | His Anatomical and Mechanical Lectures on Dancing ( 1723 ) described the four movements ‘ of which the body is capable ’ , namely : to bend , to stretch , to rise or raise , to rotate or turn . |
| 6 | Correctly practised such movements ensure that each dancer can perform in many different ways the four vital movements of which the body is capable ( the legs may be turned in or out ) , viz. to bend , stretch , rise and rotate . |
| 7 | The political centre suffered a series of heart attacks from 1905 onwards , of which the body of society as a whole was only to become fully aware after 1928 . |
| 8 | First , there would be the same result if the SCN were part of the transmission pathway by which the body clock communicates with the rest of the body ( see above ) . |
| 9 | In the year 1000 Otto III had Charlemagne 's tomb opened and removed from it the gold cross which hung round the neck of the skeleton and the marble throne on which the body had been placed . |
| 10 | Nutrition is the process by which the body acquires all the foodstuffs it needs to keep it in good working order and converts them into energy , new body tissue and those substances necessary to keep all the body processes ( metabolism ) going . |
| 11 | The most vulnerable cells were those which the body renews most frequently ; especially the white blood cells , including the lymphocytes . |
| 12 | At the same time , chemical drugs cause side-effects which the body then has to deal with as well as the disease . |
| 13 | The heart can be removed and offered to Satan , after which the body is removed to another location and burnt beyond recognition . |
| 14 | From a scientific rather than a psychiatric standpoint , the most interesting aspect of these bizarre tastes is the opportunity they afford for witnessing the extreme chemical insults which the body can accept and overcome . |
| 15 | Animal protein , or first class protein as it is known , contains all eight essential amino acids which the body depends on for good health . |
| 16 | Fish is also a rich source of vitamins and minerals which the body needs and we have already seen above the benefits obtained by eating fish containing Omega-3 fatty acids . |
| 17 | It is the ease with which the body converts dietary fat to body fat that causes the main problem in weight control . |
| 18 | This is one of the so-called auto-immune group of diseases in which the body produces antibodies to its own tissues , and thus begins to destroy them . |
| 19 | The caffeine gives her numbed brain cells a temporary boost but nothing can increase the speed with which the body disposes of alcohol , and the coffee does n't make her any more sober . |
| 20 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 21 | Gradually , as the stress level in our glass continues to rise , we eventually reach a critical point , some distance from the top of the glass , at which the body begins the signalling process that the stress level is too high . |
| 22 | Cut down on dairy products , wheat , sugar and red meat as this can reduce the amount of mucus which the body produces . |
| 23 | Both Kiki Smith and Cindy Sherman chose to depict the effective violence which the body of a woman suffers under the male gaze . |
| 24 | And the reason for those is the iron in the blood is being oxidized by various substances in the body , it 's being broken down into a form in which the body can reabsorb that iron , and during the process you go through all these colour changes because of the different forms of iron oxide being produced . |
| 25 | Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden . |
| 26 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 27 | This experience , common to many pilots is known as " The Leans " ! b ) This can occur because the resultant forces acting on an aircraft , to which the body balance mechanism responds , does not coincide with the true gravity vertical . |
| 28 | The new sector , for which the body would have responsibility , would provide for at least 80 per cent of the advanced student population in further education , the other 20 per cent being provided in about 300 other institutions , each with a relatively small stake in public sector higher education , and excluded from the body . |
| 29 | A slight deviation from the walking stance quickly puts a student into the taekwondo fighting stance , in which the body is slightly inclined to present less of an open target and the fists are held high as in a boxer 's pose . |
| 30 | She had left London on June 6 , a date that had cropped up twice before , though with no apparent connection with anything else — it was the day after Andrew Stavanger 's last known appearance at the office , and the day on which the body of the still unidentified man had been found by Southwark Bridge . |