Example sentences of "[noun] and the [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 | Adequate room was provided between the wheel and the edge of the cockpit seat . |
| 13 | Yet somehow one hand remained on the wheel and the other clasped the mainsail winch . |
| 14 | Instinctively he swung the wheel and the truck hit the car . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A beam made the wheel and the counter as we called it on it and all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In September he will become the new Public Arts Officer for the borough and the gallery will have a new arts coordinator , Philip Riley . |
| 24 | In Newham the psychogeriatric services were very dispersed ; the psychiatric hospital was outside the borough and the community psychiatric nurses and doctors were separately housed . |
| 25 | Inder Uppal is the senior officer at Hounslow Community Relations Council ( HCRC ) , funded by the borough and the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 26 | Religion and the law |
| 27 | This is not a problem that is confined to the sociology of religion , but it is one that arises frequently when students wish to study ‘ closed ’ sects or new religions which they believe ( probably quite correctly ) would not allow them to carry out their research — there is an unmeasured but , I suspect , strong relationship between the theological conservatism of a religion and the distrust with which its believers view sociologists . |
| 28 | Prayer for Gandhi is the essence of religion and the core of a man 's life . |
| 29 | He developed both these topics further in his Gifford lectures for Edinburgh University , Religion and Culture ( 1948 ) and Religion and the Rise of Western Culture ( 1950 ) . |
| 30 | Showing that the role of Christian institutions and churches was central to the fortunes and misfortunes of the languages , Victor made a major contribution to our understanding of Scottish Gaelic in the religious context , particularly in his outstandingly fine third chapter , entitled Evangelical Religion and the Rise of Literacy in the Mother Tongues . |