Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the 70.2% of a stratified random sample of women in this age group who accepted an invitation to have ultrasonography of the gall bladder and to answer questions about bowel function , etc . |
| 2 | Continence is the ability to control the contents of the bladder and to pass urine only when you want to . |
| 3 | She is still agile but is unable to control her bladder and has anaemia and a recurring chest problem . |
| 4 | Rory turned her attention to the road ahead , gripped by two almost equally powerful temptations — the first being to take her hands off the wheel and shake Candy by the shoulders for being so infuriating . |
| 5 | The sawmill at Florence Court in Co Fermanagh will be the focal point , with the mill race , water wheel and saw mechanism restored ( 1pm-6pm ) . |
| 6 | Now living in Miami Beach , he is back behind the wheel and enjoying life in Indy Car racing in the United States . |
| 7 | It operates on the rear wheels only , by applying the brakes to the spinning or slipping wheel and transferring torque to the other side of the axle . |
| 8 | York-born and bred Charlotte Bailey , who lives off Burton Stone Lane , has celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by relatives . |
| 9 | The incidence and mortality from pancreatitis in Finland between 1970 and 1989 were studied and compared with the alcohol consumption in the country and with the incidence of liver cirrhosis and gall stone disease . |
| 10 | CORRELATION WITH ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION , LIVER CIRRHOSIS AND GALL STONE DISEASE |
| 11 | HOLLYWOOD has stopped being the dream factory and instead become the poison factory , challenging conventional notions of decency , undermining the family , ridiculing religion and promoting contempt for authority . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then , harsh Penal Laws were introduced , forbidding Catholics from entering public employment , voting in local or parliamentary elections , openly practising their religion and carrying firearms . |
| 14 | Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it . |
| 15 | The Queen wrote from France urging him to give up his Anglican religion and accept Presbyterianism ; for to her as a Roman Catholic , the King remarked , all other religions appeared equally bad . |
| 16 | The staff meeting is the theatre for celebrating heroes , improving self-image and boosting morale . |
| 17 | This helps acoustic isolation and reduces classroom distraction . |
| 18 | The leukocytes maintain their integrity and function during the isolation and labelling procedure . |
| 19 | It could abandon its isolation and make deals with other parties — in which case it would contradict its own anti-party rhetoric and make itself indistinguishable from other parties . |
| 20 | The trial only revealed Godoy 's political and moral isolation and convinced Napoleon that these ‘ dirty intrigues ’ made either faction an impossibly unreliable ally . |
| 21 | Systemic fungicides , especially those manufactured by Murphy Chemical , can sometimes be combined with systemic insecticides — a cocktail that simplifies preventive spraying and saves time — but do check very carefully for compatibility . |
| 22 | Similarly , the chorus from the terraces whenever a member of the opposition was hit in the unmentionables and was being approached by the trainer with magic sponge and slopping bucket , was : ‘ Nay lad , do n't wash ‘ em . |
| 23 | This will pay to study feasibility and to inform people who live close to the proposed MRS facilities . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , on Sept. 6 the junta apparently offered to release Suu Kyi from house arrest on condition that she went into exile and renounced politics . |
| 25 | Weary of the struggle and increasingly harassed by both right-wing and left-wing elements , the Assembly gave way , repealed the Law of Exile and allowed Louis-Napoleon to take his seat . |
| 26 | One forty five the Keep Fit Association and got ladies keep fit to music at Attenborough Village Hall . |
| 27 | During the Gulf conflict he was president of Hartlepool Gulf Troops Support Group , and he is chairman of the Northern Area Parliamentary Candidates ' Association and press officer for the Conservative Group on Cleveland county council . |
| 28 | But its effect was to cast serious doubt on the policy of association and to hasten negotiations with the GPRA with a view to total independence . |
| 29 | Sir Arthur Gold , the former president of the European Athletic Association , a life vice-president of the board and now chairman of the British Olympic Association and supported Johnson , saying there had been ‘ wicked distortions ’ . |
| 30 | Feminists and other progressives have always been uncomfortable with the whole notion of morality , viewing it as an essentially conservative concept that has been used to bolster traditional modes of thinking and undermine efforts for change . |