Example sentences of "[noun] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Insertion of a catheter can cause injury to the passageway between the bladder and the penis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For example , there is a famous story about a conversation between the Emperor Napoleon and the astronomer Laplace . |
| 7 | Napoleon and the French in Spain entirely failed to grasp the significance of this popular movement . |
| 8 | ‘ Drink/drive campaigns have been successful in changing social attitudes , now is the time for raising awareness of road manners and the Highway Code . ’ |
| 9 | Manners and the preservation of an image of the manager as being all-seeing and ahead of the game , were very important . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In November Professor Roger Penrose 's Bryce Lecture entitled ‘ Cosmology and the Origin of the Universe ’ attracted a huge audience . |
| 12 | ‘ Charlie Farnes-Barnes and a feller with two left feet . ’ |
| 13 | A house is burning down ; it contains an intellectual and a chambermaid ; which one should we save first ? |
| 14 | A tall , brown iron cylinder with a wheel and a dial at the top stood beside him . |
| 15 | Despite the absence of the wheel and a system of writing , It achieved a high level of civilization … |
| 16 | The water wheel and a fountain operate from a hoselock 1500 pump purchased fro £48 — from an electrical wholesalers ' — with a home-made prefilter made from two planting baskets and a piece of 1–¼″ plastic pipe ( due to the original foam pre-filter blocking every 8 hours or so ) . |
| 17 | With a sinking knowledge of the inevitable , Manville accepted the fact that one spare wheel and a set of spanners would not cope with three slashed tires and a shattered windshield . |
| 18 | Adequate room was provided between the wheel and the edge of the cockpit seat . |
| 19 | Yet somehow one hand remained on the wheel and the other clasped the mainsail winch . |
| 20 | Instinctively he swung the wheel and the truck hit the car . |
| 21 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | He 'd gone over the car with a cloth , wiping fingerprints from the steering wheel and the door handles , then he 'd tossed that into the Lancia . |
| 25 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 26 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 27 | A beam made the wheel and the counter as we called it on it and all . |
| 28 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 29 | The overdrive is a bit anachronistic , too , and calls for deft clutchwork if you are to avoid a jerk and a thump . |
| 30 | After a while there was a faint jerk and a sensation of movement . |