Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | This evaluation consisted of a medical history and an ultrasonography of the gall bladder and the common bile duct . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For there would be some temporal duration represented by each revolution of the wheel and a certain number of these revolutions would still take place in the interval of time we call a day , even though the motion of the sun had ceased . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm . |
| 9 | The three most common methods to reduce the alcohol in a wine or beer are ARRESTED FERMENTATION , DILUTION and a special method called REVERSE OSMOSIS . |
| 10 | Five replicates were performed per drug dilution and the standard deviation of the mean is shown . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She would hire a Buick and a Sikh driver from a good family , and see the States in the style to which she was accustomed . |
| 14 | His interpretation of preventive medicine was founded on an unswerving faith in the evangelical principles of his own religion and a fervent belief in the duties owed by the citizen to the nation state . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was writing in the Origin for readers most of whom were steeped in Victorian optimism , religion and the romantic movement . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Religion and the nuclear family went hand in hand . |
| 21 | Old man Riddle was cracked on religion and the old lady 's father made a small fortune out of rabbit skins . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 24 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 25 | Geographical isolation and the hereditary nature of their job made the collier-farmers of the Forest of Dean a distinctive , inward-looking group , but they were a special case . |
| 26 | ‘ And so I broke into the palace , with a sponge and a rusty spanner . |
| 27 | Every time he drove the big Volvo along those crowded motorways he knew that one random police check , one brush with another car , one moment of inattention would have a blue-capped officer leaning in his window , wondering why he wore a wig and a false moustache . |
| 28 | There are the Kray Brothers at Reggie 's wedding in 1965 , staring menacingly off into the distance ; Michael Caine with a dangling cigarette ; Jane Birkin , topless , with her arms crossed protectively over her chest ; Catherine Deneuve with a brown wig and a pink flamingo . |
| 29 | It 's that impish , freckled , cheeky chappie with a red wig and a deformed grin whose face is superimposed on a Royals ' bikini or a soap star 's breasts to utter five devastating words : ‘ Life 's better in The Sun . ’ |
| 30 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |