Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smoking also increases the risk of cancer of the mouth , voicebox , gullet , bladder and cervix . |
| 2 | One patient had a combined cholecystoscopy and endoscopic sphincterotomy to clear stones from the gall bladder and bile duct , leaving two patients with a failed clearance , one of whom is without symptoms ( patient IV ) . |
| 3 | Ceruletide contains amino acid sequences that correspond to physiological hormones in humans that cause contraction of the gall bladder and bile duct and relaxation of the sphincter of Oddi . |
| 4 | All 14 normal people had the non-mutant version of the gene , whereas the cancer patient had the mutant gene not only in his tumour cells , but in his normal bladder and blood cells as well . |
| 5 | Among the subjects he detailed were the attempts of U.S. insurance companies and the { Mediaid } system to pass much of the burden of care onto families ; the great strain placed on family and personal relationships ; hardships in adjusting to residential situations ; and medical difficulties with such things as bladder and bowel management , skin diseases , constant pain , spastic muscle movement , regulating body temperature and resistance to respiratory complications . |
| 6 | Gradually weight loss occurs despite a good diet , and in the final stages the person ceases to recognise the family or even the self in the mirror , loses bladder and bowel control , any capacity for self-care or ability to communicate in words . |
| 7 | The stomach very sound , the kidneys , uterus , bladder and intestine in good order . |
| 8 | A similar reaction , however , is described experimentally in rabbit bladder and guinea pig subcutaneous tissue . |
| 9 | Bladder and kidney cancers |
| 10 | Smoking has been found to be contributory factor in both bladder and kidney cancers . |
| 11 | Firstly they prevent the bacteria that cause urine infections from sticking to the skin cells in the bladder and urethra . |
| 12 | Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’ |
| 13 | At the moment it 's mainly gall bladder and gynaecology patients who benefit but the skills the Leicester General will be passing on should mean more toddlers will be having operations through the keyhole too . |
| 14 | It had been used in India to control over-excitement and mania . |
| 15 | Charlemagne himself , at once " French " and " German " , has always been a powerful symbol of European domination , a model for both Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II . |
| 16 | They had no idea that his old world manners and charm would win him the love of the most eligible divorcee in the land , the Princess Royal , Princess Anne . |
| 17 | ‘ It was described by Lord Provost Black in 1845 as a school which has conferred a lustre upon our city and which has given a tone to the manners and intellect of all its inhabitants . |
| 18 | There are some glimpses of the same behaviour in MacMillan 's Mayerling , although the manners and behaviour have deteriorated . |
| 19 | In the deterioration of Count Rudolf 's manners and behaviour , MacMillan shows more clearly than anywhere else in his works how any mental and physical breakdown must show through and beyond the technicalities of the dance . |
| 20 | Even more bitter were the attacks on the behaviour of the demi-mondaines who did not hesitate to parade ‘ the profits of their vice ’ in front of decent folk and whose example , so it was said , influenced young women of good society : ‘ Among young women who count amongst the best bred and the best brought up , there are those who do not hesitate to copy the manners and behaviour of girls of easy virtue . ’ |
| 21 | For example the nouveaux riches ( the newly rich ) are sometimes excluded from the status groups of the privileged because their tastes , manners and dress are defined as vulgar . |
| 22 | At lower levels of administration , the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christian peasants of the raya were governed by Slav Muslim landowners , who , whilst retaining their Slavonic speech , adopted the manners and dress of the Turkish court . |
| 23 | 15.16–72 ) : " The settlers from Phocaea , though surrounded by arrogant tribes and kept in awe by the savage rites of their barbarous neighbours , still retain the manners and dress of their ancient home among warlike populations . " |
| 24 | She made Johnson feel doubly at home , as she had ‘ lived many years in England ’ , therefore he could expect English manners and sense of comfort . |
| 25 | Manners and tidiness and keeping things clean . |
| 26 | Rachel , on the other hand , thought that tidiness was simply a moral necessity , along with generosity , thoughtfulness , good manners and clarity . |
| 27 | This grandson recalled his grandfather as ‘ tall , comely in his person , elegant in his manners and address and well versed in literature ’ . |
| 28 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 29 | ‘ Evil communications corrupt good manners , ’ says a Greek proverb , and in the polarised world we live in , where name calling and counter-check is the order of the day , it is not surprising that good manners and etiquette have gone by the board . |
| 30 | Limited as my graces are , I was a stickler for manners and etiquette , which my Dad-in-law thought of as ‘ turnin' 'em into poofs ’ . |