Example sentences of "our body " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because , during sleep , our spine no longer needs to support the weight of our body . |
| 2 | In addition , environmental daytime temperatures would be higher , and heat loss from our body would be more difficult , whilst heat gain from the sun would be greater . |
| 3 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 4 | We shall consider their importance to us and how they are produced by combinations of our body clock , life-style and the environment . |
| 5 | Is it a function of our body clock or our life-style , or due to some interaction between the two ? |
| 6 | Just as we differ in mental and physical characteristics , so too do we differ when the detailed properties of our body clock are considered . |
| 7 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind also that our body clock tends to run slow at the weekend , we will tend to have later nights and lie-ins , all of which cause a slight delay of our body clock . |
| 9 | Bearing in mind also that our body clock tends to run slow at the weekend , we will tend to have later nights and lie-ins , all of which cause a slight delay of our body clock . |
| 10 | This fairly common phenomenon stresses the interaction that normally takes place between our body clock , our social commitments , and time-cues . |
| 11 | Our body clock as well as our habits will need modification . |
| 12 | In later sections we will consider how to adjust our body clocks to much larger shifts — as after a time-zone transition or during nightwork , for example . |
| 13 | In both of these cases our body clock is wrongly timed for our life-style and so it does not cool us down and make us feel more fatigued in the hours just before bedtime . |
| 14 | For example , if we have raised our body temperature by exercise or effort then cooling ourselves by taking a cold shower , a swim , or a cold drink makes us more comfortable . |
| 15 | If our body is becoming too warm — through sunbathing , for example — then the air is a ‘ pleasant breeze' ; if it is tending to be rather cool — seated in wintertime — then the air is a ‘ draught ’ . |
| 16 | All these methods are calming us down and decreasing adrenalin release , and so accentuate the likelihood of falling asleep that is being promoted by our body clock . |
| 17 | Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles . |
| 18 | It is important , however , to remember that normally we are not stressed and so , particularly in repetitive and boring situations , the effect of our body clock upon mental performance becomes greater . |
| 19 | Nearly all substances that appear in the urine show daily rhythms and these are due to our habits as well as our body clock . |
| 20 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 21 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 22 | Our body clock has adjusted readily enough to the delay in our life-style at the weekend ( remember that the free-running period is more than 24 hours ) , but is less easily advanced , as is required , on Sunday night and Monday morning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 23 | Most of us are back to normal by Tuesday , however , because we can advance our body clock , even if with some difficulty . |
| 24 | Further , as is often the case , the clinical conditions might be regarded as rather extreme cases of variability in the ease with which we adjust our body clock , a process that is found normally within the human population . |
| 25 | There is a combination of two factors : the change in time zone and the sluggishness of our body rhythms to adjust to change . |
| 26 | It is this adjustment which causes difficulties for our body rhythms . |
| 27 | The advantage of our body clock is that it improves the way in which we fit into a rhythmic environment ( this was considered in more detail in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 28 | It can be seen that this very advantage now becomes disadvantageous after a time-zone transition when an adjustment of our body to new local time is required . |
| 29 | Jet-lag is the consequence of there being a mis-match between our body clock and the external timing , because our body clock is slow to adjust to the change in local time . |
| 30 | Jet-lag is the consequence of there being a mis-match between our body clock and the external timing , because our body clock is slow to adjust to the change in local time . |