Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gall bladder emptying was restored to eight of 10 patients managed with an acutely inflamed gall bladder and to 11 of 13 patients with non-function because of a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch ( Table II ) . |
| 2 | One reason might be that it is a case of ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , because despite the fact that the chestnut-shaped prostate gland plays a vital secretory role in ejaculation , it is a very hidden organ , surrounding the upper part of the urethra and tucked away under the bladder and behind the rectum . |
| 3 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 4 | On the one hand there are the conventional rules of good manners and of correct behaviour ; on the other , the rules concerning sympathy and respect for others , keeping faith , honesty , and so on . |
| 5 | Yet in intellectual and to some extent in practical terms her attitudes were overwhelmingly conservative . |
| 6 | Spanish and Portuguese N. lapillus tend to live under mussel clumps and in this habitat banded shells are undoubtedly cryptic . |
| 7 | A hole should be drilled through the outside of the plastic wheel and into the metal casting , then cut a length of wire is to the correct length and glue it into place . |
| 8 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 9 | After that the torch was applied to a point on the Wheel and at the same moment the chocks were knocked away . |
| 10 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 11 | He unbuckled the belt and , leaving it around Newley 's waist , looped it through the wheel and through the glassless window of the door . |
| 12 | Younger children often try to use a funnel as a scoop , but as they progress , it is used to fill bottles , control the flow of water through the water wheel and as part of a complex water system of pipes , jugs and bottles on different levels . |
| 13 | The specificity of the assays applied to perfusion fluid was assured by dilution and by recovery experiments showing correlation to the standard curves . |
| 14 | An alderman of Leeds in 1858–68 , he was mayor in 1860–1 , as well as being a magistrate for Leeds borough and for the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 15 | Join the campaign to build a healthy , vibrant Anti-apartheid movement in Britain , with strong branches in every borough and in every country . |
| 16 | The last Empress , a German , was more Russian than peasant Russians in her devotion to Orthodox religion and to unorthodox holy men . |
| 17 | In fact , a number were attracted to the religion and to the ministry by the political conflict . |
| 18 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 19 | Much of their education was devoted to religion and to the catechism . |
| 20 | This was a view unsympathetic to religion and to the imaginative arts ; but it was not characteristic of the leading scientists , who were often interested in all kinds of things beyond their science and continued to resist the appearance of two cultures . |
| 21 | Myres believed that ‘ it should be possible to extract … some valuable information on the origin and distribution of the settlers , their relationship to the pre-existing population , their social and economic development , and their notions of religion and of decorative art ’ ( 1969 , p. 11 ) , although only the first and last of these aims were satisfied to any degree via the pottery . |
| 22 | He ushered in a new era in the study of religion and of theology ; he brought a new conception of what the disciplined and ordered study of both could be ; he underlined in epoch-making fashion the importance of the subjective aspect of religious awareness , pointing to what lies deeper than intellectual formulations , yet is not reducible to inchoate and diffuse ‘ feelings ’ ; he attempted to grasp and express in an original and modern way the abiding significance of Jesus , and to uncover the living and personal meaning of what were in danger of being dismissed as merely the fossilised accretions of doctrine . |
| 23 | Civil rights were defined in the Basic Law , including freedom of expression , assembly , religion and of movement , and the government was obliged to respect these . |
| 24 | There are also differences of religion and of family structure , and quite different expectations about the possibility , or desirability , of returning ‘ home ’ . |
| 25 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |
| 26 | They continue to have an impact on women 's involvement in public religion and on social attitude towards ‘ the female ’ . |
| 27 | She found faith in her religion and at last died happy having been an inspiration to many people in her community . |
| 28 | He was very preoccupied with religion and at any hour of day or night might summon Alvares for a religious discussion . |
| 29 | They are more fundamentalist both in religion and in politics — though some eschew political activity — and are frequently more politically volatile . |
| 30 | Liberation Theology explicitly links society , politics and religion and in so doing , bases much of its social analysis on dependency theory . |