Example sentences of "[pron] surfaces " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a long tradition in Britain of hostility to ‘ political espionage ’ , some of which surfaces in this book . |
| 2 | The image suggests a distrust of conventional female sexuality , which surfaces again and again in songs like Dress and Sheela-Na-Gig with their disconcerting blend of violence and eroticism . |
| 3 | If disinfection is carried out using a disinfectant there must be sufficient time for the chemical to take effect , namely the contact time , plus a small safety margin after which surfaces must be dried . |
| 4 | Your shiny skin is caused by oil which surfaces via the hair follicles or shafts ( otherwise known as the skin 's pores ) , into which the sebaceous glands secrete sebum . |
| 5 | this apparently full word is in fact theoretically an empty word , in the immediacy of its obviousness — or rather , it is the ideology-fulfilment which surfaces in this lapse of rigour . |
| 6 | But not from the outside : this kind of camp undermines the depth model of identity from inside , being a kind of parody and mimicry which hollows out from within , making depth recede into its surfaces . |
| 7 | Eden Hall was the family seat of the Cumbrian family of Musgrave since the days of King Henry VI ; the ‘ Luck ’ is an heirloom , a beautifully enamelled and engraved glass goblet with Moorish-style decorative work on its surfaces . |
| 8 | The lumpy smoothness of all its surfaces reinforces the sense that Plenty is something organic , something that was generated , not constructed . |
| 9 | Detailed biochemical work has shown that target cells carry an insulin receptor molecule on their surfaces , which reacts with insulin molecules in the surrounding body fluids . |
| 10 | All but one of the stones were furred at their perimeters and partly on their surfaces with green weed . |
| 11 | Tradition demands that the cowls should be painted white and it is common practice to spray their surfaces with glass-fibre to improve durability . |
| 12 | There is an order in these works , but it is like that at the centre of an explosion , and all over their surfaces there is a terrible indifference to everything that is sentient . |
| 13 | No current can be made to flow from the STM 's needle on to their surfaces . |
| 14 | It is always worth examining the surfaces of fossils like brachiopods or sea urchins to see if the fine matted or delicately branching colonies of bryozoa are preserved on their surfaces — they are easily overlooked . |
| 15 | Several greens and tees required attention and on Messrs. Carters advice , a ton of charcoal ( £7 delivered ) was distributed over their surfaces accordingly . |
| 16 | Their surfaces were ribbed by corrugation , which ran in wavy lines three inches across , like giant fingerprints , but without whorls or loops . |
| 17 | Since it seems unlikely that we can generate in the foreseeable future materials that are structurally similar to natural tissue , while having the most appropriate functional properties , the possibility has emerged of using traditional or advanced materials as functional substrates and modifying their surfaces , with biological components or their analogues , to provide optimal biocompatibility. one of the most exciting possibilities here is using biomimetic surfaces as described in the article by Dennis Chapman and Stephen Charles . |
| 18 | To grow bigger , the invaginations in their surfaces must necessarily become more complex ; they would take up more internal space and leave less room for vital internal parts . |
| 19 | The most brightly coloured parts of the sea slug , which therefore attract most attention , are the papillae — hair-like structures which grow from their backs and which have arranged on their surfaces groups of stinging cells known as nettle-cells or nematocysts , which explode at the slightest touch , discharging a barbed , whip-like structure . |
| 20 | These animals possess the nettle-cells or nematocysts , which are arranged near their surfaces , and act as a weapon either of offence or defence for them . |
| 21 | A study ( Moore and Oddy 1985 ) of examples from seventh century graves in Kent at Kingston and Osengell , both bearing gold streaks on their surfaces , determined their petrology . |
| 22 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 23 | Round tables with skirts , their surfaces smothered with photographs . |
| 24 | Their surfaces are covered with tiny pores through which water is drawn into the body by flagella , and then expelled through larger vents . |
| 25 | Within their surfaces are tiny specks of quartz . |
| 26 | In each of the early civilizations the emphasis rested on opaque or translucent stones , in China on jade , but elsewhere on different forms of chalcedony , lapis lazuli and turquoise , the qualities of each of which could be displayed effectively by the simple process of polishing their surfaces smooth . |
| 27 | As diverse evidence also indicates that the stars found in star-forming regions lose mass either from their surfaces or from surrounding accretion disks , a causal connection between stellar mass loss and the H-H objects has become a widespread article of faith . |
| 28 | Characteristic of Lanzarote are the numerous cones of extinct volcanoes , their surfaces smoothed and round by the dry , fierce winds heading out across the Atlantic from the Moroccan Sahara . |
| 29 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 30 | Small bodies , like planets , can acquire small quantities of volatiles by the direct capture of gases from the PFM , which are then adsorbed on to their surfaces . |