Example sentences of "parts [prep] the body " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clean cuts on other parts of the body with moist gauze and apply a waterproof plaster to exclude dirt . |
| 2 | At the same time there were bursts of rapid eye-movements and muscular twitches in other parts of the body . |
| 3 | We perceive what is ‘ out there ’ or what is ‘ around us ’ as a result of the transfer of energy from objects or events to specialized parts of the body known collectively as ‘ the sensory system ’ . |
| 4 | When performing any movement in the classical vocabulary dancers are drawing straight , angled or rounded lines which affect one or all parts of the body . |
| 5 | But perhaps most severe of all are tests for susceptibility to motion sickness : they will be blindfolded , and have to move their heads and upper parts of the body back and forth or up and down ; and they will be pushed back and forward on a track every five seconds for 20 minutes . |
| 6 | Rough patches of road taken slowly caused parts of the body structure to creak and groan . |
| 7 | Like it or not , alternative medicine often reaches parts of the body ordinary NHS treatment fails to reach . |
| 8 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 9 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 10 | Some were wrapped in special plastic sheets that formed an airtight cover around their bodies ( or certain parts of the body , most often the belly and behind ) , so that the skin perspired all the more readily and the women , or so they believed , would lose weight more quickly . |
| 11 | In the nineteenth century , disease itself came to be the object of investigation , and diseases came to be located in specific parts of the body . |
| 12 | How does it come about that different substances are found in different parts of the body ? |
| 13 | In animals , there are two main methods of communication between different parts of the body . |
| 14 | The next step is to posit from a core vocabulary — words for water , milk , parts of the body and so on — the common language of Homo sapiens some 10,000 to 15,000 years ago . |
| 15 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 16 | In certain serious blood disorders it can invade other parts of the body , such as the lungs or central nervous system , with severe , if not fatal , consequences . |
| 17 | There is a feeling of malaise , that is ‘ unwellness ’ , on top of which may be specific symptoms due to the involvement of certain organs or parts of the body . |
| 18 | There will be spots or sores on the mucous membranes in one third of cases , and 10 per cent will have signs of involvement of other parts of the body including the eye , nervous system , bones , or internal organs . |
| 19 | It is essential for normal growth and is secreted by the pituitary and carried in the blood to all parts of the body ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 20 | When the neural tube closes ( Chapter 2 ) , a group of cells detaches itself at the site of fusion and migrates to many parts of the body and differentiates into a wide variety of cell types . |
| 21 | Once again Henry was struck by the enormity of supermarkets … those millions of dead animals , butchered , arranged in parcels , labelled with a SELL BY or a BEST BEFORE date , grouped , not by species or sub-species , but by parts of the body . |
| 22 | It may also appear on other parts of the body in the form of an itchy rash known as ringworm . |
| 23 | From here the oils diffuse into the bloodstream or are taken up by the lymph and interstitial fluid ( a liquid surrounding all body cells ) to other parts of the body . |
| 24 | This characteristic is shared with several breeds right across Europe from Spain to the Black Sea but especially the brown and grey Alpine and Iberian breeds , whose coats often shade gradually to darker and lighter areas on certain parts of the body . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , smacking tends to be habit-forming ; there are parents who lack judgement and self-control ; and some do not appreciate that a blow to the child 's head and other parts of the body , even a severe shaking , can be downright dangerous — sometimes fatal . |
| 26 | Yet another type of vocabulary can have difference in meaning for patient and nurse and thereby give rise to difficulties — words describing parts of the body , though having a particular anatomical reference , do not necessarily have that reference for lay people , even intelligent lay people . |
| 27 | That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body . |
| 28 | The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time . |
| 29 | Particular symptoms that relate to the separate parts of the body are worth 1 point . |
| 30 | Many people have recently discovered the health club or gymnasium where machines are used to work and tone different parts of the body . |