Example sentences of "[noun] and the " in BNC.

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1 In the case of the H197F mutant , an edge-to-face aromatic-aromatic interaction between the ( + ) hydrogen of the phenylalanine and the ( - ) - electrons of the benzhydryl group of the antagonist would be similar to an amino-aromatic interaction in its electrostatic origin .
2 Insertion of a catheter can cause injury to the passageway between the bladder and the penis .
3 Each of these people , when able to confront grief directly , passed great quantities of water through their bladder and the swelling rapidly subsided .
4 Scans were obtained by manipulating the transducer so that it followed the appropriate long axis of the gall bladder and the largest gall bladder diameters at each time were recorded .
5 The patient returned 10 to 12 days after the procedure for a tubogram to assess the presence or absence of stones in the gall bladder and the patency of the cystic and common bile ducts .
6 As found in our experiments , inhibition of NO synthesis may enhance the contraction of the smooth muscle of the gall bladder and the tonic response to CCK-8 can be prolonged , favouring the delivery of bile .
7 The advantage of pressure and volume relations seems more obvious in globular organs such as the bladder and the stomach by use of a barostat .
8 This evaluation consisted of a medical history and an ultrasonography of the gall bladder and the common bile duct .
9 In milder climes , and Moscow in the autumn ( ask Napoleon and the Germans ) , the problem is deep mud ; you need wellies .
10 For example , there is a famous story about a conversation between the Emperor Napoleon and the astronomer Laplace .
11 We have to remember that Napoleon and the literal believers in old men on clouds have got it wrong .
12 Of the extensive Bonaparte family only Napoleon I 's remaining brother , King Jerome , and his family ( the Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde ) , were given the status of Imperial Princes ( Princes français ) , with a separate civil list and the right to sit in the Senate .
13 Napoleon and the French in Spain entirely failed to grasp the significance of this popular movement .
14 In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland .
15 As a hungry little lad my stomach occasionally overruled my manners and the Grace would include a parenthetic rebuke such as , ‘ For what we are about to receive ( and for what Stewart has already eaten ) we give You thanks … ’
16 Manners and the preservation of an image of the manager as being all-seeing and ahead of the game , were very important .
17 She keeps giving me clothes — ; not this dear old awful thing , Mrs McPhee at home made this — and making me practise manners and the piano and I could n't tell her about last night , I could n't , I ca n't disappoint another person , not after my mother — ’ and Alexandra put her head down on to the slice of bread on her plate and burst into tears .
18 ‘ Drink/drive campaigns have been successful in changing social attitudes , now is the time for raising awareness of road manners and the Highway Code . ’
19 I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince .
20 In November Professor Roger Penrose 's Bryce Lecture entitled ‘ Cosmology and the Origin of the Universe ’ attracted a huge audience .
21 Apart from this tenacious defence of local liberties the Caroline bureaucrats , in common with other administrative technicians of the ancien régime in Europe , found that the main obstacle to modernization lay in the inertia of the average Spanish office-holder and the sheer size of the administrative apparatus — the superfluity of posts that nourished what was later to be termed empleadismo .
22 As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine .
23 As cornering acceleration increases , the increasing castor of the outer wheel and the substantial elasticity of the front longitudinal arm bearing point support the car against side forces .
24 Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’
25 The first of the great wheels were tall , and consideration has to be made for the height of the canopy , but there were many adaptations of the walking wheel and the more familiar smaller wheel , at which the spinner sat , soon followed , and on a small gallery like the one at Hodge Hill , the mistress of the house could sit with her tiny flax wheel .
26 I was entrenched on the top of Eagle 's Piece , with a huge stone under my wheel and the only way out seemed to be over the edge , most humiliating .
27 Instinctively he swung the wheel and the truck hit the car .
28 He had not , though , for the most part , reached that fine state of civilization in which he was able to make gunpowder … he never invented the wheel and the plow ( 1971 , p.81 ) .
29 I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water .
30 A stone mould from Sitia combining the cross , the wheel and the flaring sun-disc all in one symbol tends to confirm this ( title illustration , Chapter 1 ) .
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