Example sentences of "[noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 To equalise the pressure in the bladder to that being placed on the body , it is inflated during descent and deflated on rising .
2 His nervous tension , allied to the freezing cold , combined to fill his bladder to the point where it became decidedly uncomfortable .
3 It is not known from that study , however , whether the reduction in intraduodenal bilirubin output resulted from hyperglycaemia induced alterations in gastric emptying of the meal , alterations in endogenous CCK secretion , or alterations in the responsiveness of the gall bladder to CCK .
4 Cholinergic blockade with atropine reduces contractile responses of the gall bladder to CCK , and action similar to the effect of hyperglycaemia on gall bladder contraction induced by CCK .
5 Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) .
6 A higher ratio of the concentration rate of protein to that of bile acids in gall bladder to hepatic beile as seen in the cholesterol gall stone patients than the gall stone free patients ( 0.75 ( 1.02 ) v 0.15 ( 0.11 ) , p<0.05 ) .
7 Figure 2 shows the effect of inhibition of NO synthase on the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 .
8 Figure 4 shows that the effect of L-NAME on the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 was not found in animals receiving L-arginine .
9 Note that the effect on sodium nitroprusside was the opposite of that found with the NO synthase inhibitors and its administration greatly reduced the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 .
10 Everything links , from cosmology to microbiology .
11 What did the word ‘ delicious ’ mean to someone who cared not a fig about cuisine ?
12 So far as their work goes it has point only as a mean to these .
13 What does cautioning mean to you ?
14 The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve .
15 The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve .
16 What do we mean what is assertive mean to you ? this is gon na be quite interesting I suspect .
17 The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand .
18 ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) .
19 Chain your steering wheel to the clutch , brake pedal or a seat .
20 When he judged the moment was right — that he could turn the Mercedes faster than the truck driver could alter the onward rush of his mammoth — he swung the wheel to the left , switching to the outer lane .
21 Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved .
22 You hit the bottom of the valley , wait for the arms to stop shaking from the effort of holding the bike 's front wheel to its course and take on food from the station de ravitaillement .
23 They began to relax , Delaney and Forster leaving the wheel to Lawton .
24 Harrison handed over the binoculars and twitched the wheel to port .
25 The rider does n't just lean the bike into the corner — he knocks the machine on to its side , pushing heavily on the right handlebar to turn the front wheel to the left and drop the machine to the right .
26 With his other arm he wrenched the wheel to the right , forced the Audi on to the pavement and against the wall .
27 Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside .
28 ‘ You took the Wheel to the site and set it up on the ramp ; was it left unattended at any time ? ’
29 Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims .
30 She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped .
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