Example sentences of "[noun] and [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Each of these people , when able to confront grief directly , passed great quantities of water through their bladder and the swelling rapidly subsided . |
| 3 | This evaluation consisted of a medical history and an ultrasonography of the gall bladder and the common bile duct . |
| 4 | We have to remember that Napoleon and the literal believers in old men on clouds have got it wrong . |
| 5 | Richard was tall for his age and personable , with impeccable manners and a strong sense of occasion . |
| 6 | The two had much in common : conceit , fame , unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress . |
| 7 | A Sephardic Jew , he was a tall , spare man of high moral principles and the most courteous manners and an odd habit when listening of purring like a cat . |
| 8 | The qualities a diplomat needed — quickness of wit , courtly manners and an impressive appearance , social polish and savoir-faire — were not to be acquired in classrooms and libraries . |
| 9 | I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince . |
| 10 | She was an intellectual and an eccentric , and anyone less like the poetic image of a milkmaid it would be hard to find . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For there would be some temporal duration represented by each revolution of the wheel and a certain number of these revolutions would still take place in the interval of time we call a day , even though the motion of the sun had ceased . |
| 13 | The entry level Calibra ( with eight-valve 2.0i engine ) receives a dressing up , with alloy wheels , leather steering wheel and a few other touches added . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They yearn for the feeling of security given by the alpha-numeric steering wheel and the clean , clear C : prompt . |
| 19 | The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm . |
| 20 | The three most common methods to reduce the alcohol in a wine or beer are ARRESTED FERMENTATION , DILUTION and a special method called REVERSE OSMOSIS . |
| 21 | Five replicates were performed per drug dilution and the standard deviation of the mean is shown . |
| 22 | The results to date would seem to indicate that a rest period of at least three minutes is required between one dilution and the next . |
| 23 | Aldershot-based Magstore Ltd is badging Philips Electronics NV 's CDD521 write-once compact disk drives in the UK so that software vendors and others can do short-run production of disks : the drives are aimed for both audio and data applications — the 63 minute disks can store 680Mb of data and cost £22 while the 72 minute equivalent holds 750Mb and costs £24 — bit high if you simply want copies of your latest songs to sell as compact disks around the folk clubs ; the drives themselves are priced at £4,450 and the necessary software for MS-DOS , Windows or Macintosh costing around £1,500 . |
| 24 | To prevent squabbles over the boundaries , which had been especially frequent between the borough and the neighbouring Aske estate , the purpose of the boundary riding was to define the exact line of demarcation . |
| 25 | Elderly women with bleeding varices seem to outnumber men , perhaps to be expected in view of the lower incidence of alcoholic cirrhosis and the longer life expectancy of women . |
| 26 | The tunnel is designed as far as possible to stay within the chalk marl but the alignment is constrained by the geometric requirements of a high speed railway including a minimum horizontal curvature of 4,200m and a maximum gradient of just under 1% . |
| 27 | She would hire a Buick and a Sikh driver from a good family , and see the States in the style to which she was accustomed . |
| 28 | A common religion and a common cultural tradition are two of the factors identified by the House of Lords in the leading case of Mandla v. Dowell Lee as characteristic of the existence of a racial group , in that case Sikhs . |
| 29 | His interpretation of preventive medicine was founded on an unswerving faith in the evangelical principles of his own religion and a fervent belief in the duties owed by the citizen to the nation state . |
| 30 | We noted that in practice there was a connection between two triads — the Marxist commitment to abolish the family , private property and religion and the seeming inevitability of economic inefficiency , religious persecution and political terror . |