Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the body " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compressed air oscillates the ventricles , circulating blood around the body . |
| 2 | Accordingly , the rhythmic compression of our leg-veins when we walk , or chest-veins when we breathe , turn these veins into little peristaltic pumps , aiding the circulation of the blood around the body . |
| 3 | Blood pressure is the pressure which the heart and arteries apply in order to squeeze the blood around the body . |
| 4 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 5 | The HEART pumps blood around the body . |
| 6 | The heart is a pump which pumps blood around the body . |
| 7 | In the same way that the human body , for instance , is an integrated whole whose individual parts serve particular ‘ needs ’ of the system ( for example , the heart performs the function of pumping blood around the body , the bowel functions to collect and evacuate solid-waste products , and so on ) , so society comprises a system of interdependent institutions each with a contribution to make to the overall stability and continuity of the whole . |
| 8 | So the capillaries are the very fine tubes that carry the blood around the body . |
| 9 | So haematology because of haemoglobin the red colouring of the erm red cells that carry the oxygen around the body and haemoglobin contains iron which is why when people are short of iron they suffer from anaemia because they 've got en not enough of this red colouring in their blood cells to carry the oxygen around the body . |
| 10 | So haematology because of haemoglobin the red colouring of the erm red cells that carry the oxygen around the body and haemoglobin contains iron which is why when people are short of iron they suffer from anaemia because they 've got en not enough of this red colouring in their blood cells to carry the oxygen around the body . |
| 11 | Only when every part of the grass verge around the body had been scoured , and the piece of turf actually under the body remained the last to be examined , would Dr Barnard allow human feet to walk on the ground to approach the body . |
| 12 | It was an incredibly rich time for woman artists with the whole area of debate around the body and representation opening up . |
| 13 | He returned his glance to the area around the body . |
| 14 | He said that there were no other prints on the ground around the body . |
| 15 | Rapid flying can soon lead to heat loss by convection , and at night nocturnal insects like moths protect themselves against heat loss with hairs on their thorax which maintain a stable air layer around the body surface . |
| 16 | The eggs can be swallowed by children who are apt to put dirty fingers into their mouths ; the larvae may then migrate from the gut around the body . |
| 17 | These in turn travel around the body and under their influence it begins its development into adult form . |
| 18 | For his part in a week-long happening at Glasgow 's Tramway Theatre in early May — ‘ an exploration around the body , halfway between theatre and sculptor ’ — he has drawn on his own private nightmare . |
| 19 | The emotional , mental and spiritual levels form an energy field around the body known as the aura , aspects of which can be seen by some people and which have recently been partially demonstrated by modern technology . |
| 20 | This causes the nodes to contract regularly , thereby propelling the lymph around the body . |