Example sentences of "[noun] and the [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 | I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They yearn for the feeling of security given by the alpha-numeric steering wheel and the clean , clear C : prompt . |
| 12 | Five replicates were performed per drug dilution and the standard deviation of the mean is shown . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 19 | We will ensure that access to literature , religion and the creative arts is limited to those few children who are capable of appreciating them , and whose parents can afford to pay the extra costs involved . |
| 20 | The eclipse of state medicine , combined with the renewed political clout of nonconformist religion and the stern voice of the purity movement , militated against a revival of the medico-moral alliance . |
| 21 | He was writing in the Origin for readers most of whom were steeped in Victorian optimism , religion and the romantic movement . |
| 22 | It explores in a metaphorical way the ideas of performance , ritual , religion and the image-making machinations of the media . |
| 23 | In the whole time that the kids have been going away we 've never had a single problem over religion and the biggest boost is that they actually want to meet each other again after the holiday , ’ she explained . |
| 24 | Religion and the nuclear family went hand in hand . |
| 25 | Old man Riddle was cracked on religion and the old lady 's father made a small fortune out of rabbit skins . |
| 26 | By working from this new standpoint , Schleiermacher aimed to bypass the antitheses which had emerged so sharply in earlier generations between reason and revelation , natural religion and received authority , the natural and the supernatural , and to offer a fresh synthesis in which both the authentic and distinctive character of religion and the special nature of the Christian faith would be preserved . |
| 27 | At one extreme are the relations of permanent hostility between the Buid and Christians , paralleled on the mystical plane by the permanent struggle between the spirit familiars and the predatory spirits . |
| 28 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 29 | Under the ice there are perch , bream , the carp-like sazan , the big sheat-fish and the occasional pike and salmon . |
| 30 | ‘ We are also concerned about the possible health risks and the possible depreciation of house prices . ’ |