Example sentences of "around the body " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , they are glorified ‘ pincers ’ , which pinch the skin and find how thick the fat layer is at various points around the body . |
| 2 | The fish is preserved in a siltstone nodule , which has partially formed around the body of the fish . |
| 3 | Using genetic engineering , the company Delta Biotechnology has inserted into yeast the human gene for the manufacture of haemoglobin , the protein that gives blood its scarlet colour and transports oxygen to tissues around the body . |
| 4 | This is relevant when you come to look at how cholesterol is transported around the body . |
| 5 | After symptoms of infection have disappeared , the virus may stay around the body for some considerable time , and it is often possible to grow it as long as one year after the infection has taken place . |
| 6 | Psychics describe the aura as a rainbow emanation radiating half a metre or more around the body , more or less ovoid in shape . |
| 7 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 8 | It was wrapped around the body and over the left shoulder where it was draped in folds which nearly reached the floor . |
| 9 | Compressed air oscillates the ventricles , circulating blood around the body . |
| 10 | They are distributed around the body at , for example , the groin , the armpit and the abdomen , Noyan 's work shows that lymph nodes excised from calves and goats exhibit regular spontaneous movements . |
| 11 | This causes the nodes to contract regularly , thereby propelling the lymph around the body . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As the bloodstream carries these hormones around the body , the adrenaline produces the ‘ flight or fight ’ reaction already described , while the corticosteroids have a great variety of effects . |
| 14 | Prana is seen as a universal energy which flows in currents in and around the body . |
| 15 | Blood pressure is the pressure which the heart and arteries apply in order to squeeze the blood around the body . |
| 16 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 17 | The HEART pumps blood around the body . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The end result looks like a cross between a Fender and a Yamaha Pacifica , with a touch of Ibanez around the body . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The ECG also monitors the amount of blood being pumped around the body — crucial in major surgery where blood loss and supply have to be carefully balanced . |
| 23 | Whatever the case , the sheet would have been wrapped around the body in the customary fashion with top- and bottom-knots . |
| 24 | She wore heavy make-up and she had one of those unfortunate bulging figures where the flesh appears to be strapped in all around the body to prevent it from falling out . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Howard Danford and Max Shirley call education ‘ a vitally important process involving the mind and emphasizing intellectual development , while recreation is a relatively insignificant operation centering around the body , amusement , fun and frivolity ’ ( 1970 , p.26 ) . |
| 27 | The heart is a pump which pumps blood around the body . |
| 28 | Blood is less likely to clot , the heart can pump more blood ( and therefore oxygen ) around the body with less effort . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The chair is deliberately minimal and is essentially designed around the body to give good lumbar support and spinal relief . |