Example sentences of "[prep] the naked [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None are so efficient in obtaining specimens as the naked black , whose noiseless and gliding steps enable him to steel upon it unheard and unperceived , and with a gun in his hand he rarely allows it to escape , and in many instances , he will even kill it with his own weapons . ’ |
| 2 | Today they were busy and the dogs were chained , so it did n't matter so much about the naked window . |
| 3 | The green sweep of the wooded hills on Morven and Mull gave us an impression of verdant lushness after the naked rock and brown moors of the Outer Isles . |
| 4 | Later , when Aurangzeb ordered the decapitation of the naked fakir Sarmad , an Armenian Jew who had converted to Islam , the sage allegedly picked up his head and walked up the steps of the Jama Masjid . |
| 5 | The dark tenement block loomed up on her left and through the broken windows she could see the reflection of the naked gas jets that burned on each landing . |
| 6 | He had frozen against the touch of the naked blade , but even so there was a line of broken skin which showed red , then was hidden by a wreath of mist . |
| 7 | With the comic appearance of this modern barbarian the resolutely physical takes over ; we move back to the level of the naked man with no interest in the ‘ polymath ’ . |
| 8 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 9 | It was easy to see the place was cool , thought Miles , there was always a copy of The Naked Lunch on the table . |
| 10 | DNase I cleavage of the naked DNA is poor within the A n . |
| 11 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 12 | At public baptism the head of the naked infant was anointed , immediately after immersion had taken place , with the chrysom oil , a mixture of olive oil and balsam . |
| 13 | Instead she simply stared back at him , unaware of the naked vulnerability in her tawny almond-shaped eyes . |
| 14 | Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind . |
| 15 | Or as Clark remarks of Manet 's Olympia , as exemplar of the modernist revolution both in content and in form : ‘ Olympia is not an enigma , not a courtisane , the final factual existence ( of the naked woman ) on the bed is the key to that of the paint ’ . |
| 16 | And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg . |
| 17 | And their small size enables tiny arthropods , some almost too small to see with the naked eye , to live in crannies , within the soil , between sand grains , and the like . |
| 18 | The body louse may lay its eggs in clothing or bedding , while the head louse , like the crab louse , cements its eggs on to hairs forming ‘ nits ’ , which are the size of a pin-head and can just be made out with the naked eye . |
| 19 | Quite often , olivine and pyroxene begin to crystallize out early on , so they may be present in the final rock as quite large crystals , up to a centimetre across , many times larger than the crystals surrounding them , and easily visible with the naked eye . |
| 20 | He examined the pieces with the naked eye , then with his glass , while behind him Isobel held her breath . |
| 21 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 22 | The interesting point is that the Greeks were certainly able to see Merope with the naked eye , whereas today this is virtually impossible . |
| 23 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 24 | This behaviour is almost too quick to see with the naked eye . |
| 25 | It is maddening , since so often you can see traces of underdrawing on the painting 's surface just with the naked eye ! ’ |
| 26 | The magnification tells you how much larger an object looks that if it were viewed with the naked eye . |
| 27 | I well remember the occasion when he discovered a brightish nova , just about visible with the naked eye and easily seen with binoculars . |
| 28 | The faintest stars normally visible with the naked eye are of magnitude 6 , and binoculars will go down to at least 8 ; my 20 × 70 pair will reach 9 . |
| 29 | With the naked eye , or with binoculars , it is possible to distinguish between two stars which differ by only a tenth of a magnitude . |
| 30 | Mu Cephei is only of the fifth magnitude ( at least , generally so ; it is somewhat variable ) , so that with the naked eye it is not impressive even though it is actually redder than Betelgeux . |