Example sentences of "[noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A down-stuffed duvet in a printed-cotton cover lay over them . |
| 2 | She wondered what they were saying about her , up at the top of the house , as she undressed and laid her clothes out before sliding under the duvet in her underwear . |
| 3 | She says , ‘ I 'll bring your duvet in a minute , ’ and she slips into her bedroom and shuts the door . |
| 4 | Well I 'd better put the duvet in the wash then . |
| 5 | I said they 've got a duvet in the ward , in my wardro |
| 6 | My duvet in your wardrobe . |
| 7 | I said we 've got a duvet in my wardrobe . |
| 8 | It takes the railway line into the city 's Central Station , itself a notable piece of railway building , designed by John Dobson , the architect who was responsible for so much of Newcastle 's new central stylishness in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The urinary bladder in both sexes acts as a halfway house or store for the urine secreted by the kidneys . |
| 10 | The vagina ( in Latin , a sheath or scabbard ) is about four inches long and lies between the urethra and bladder in front and the rectum behind . |
| 11 | The close proximity of the entrance of the vagina to the anus makes the anus a particular threat to the vagina as a source of candida and provides the bacteria to infect the bladder in cases of cystitis . |
| 12 | An observer noted that ‘ the day is happily gone by , the dark age has passed over , when the village farrier had a clyster-pipe and bladder in one pocket , and a roll of tow emerging from another , and brandishing his twitch as a weapon of offence and defence , is the only person to whom our domestic animals are entrusted ’ . |
| 13 | Pump A custom fit concept using a manually inflated air bladder in the arch and collar of the shoe . |
| 14 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 15 | The answer to this question lies in the complex problem of whether there is ever a role for retaining the gall bladder in the presence of stones , and whether it is the gall bladder that is the cause of the stones such that recurrence of stones is inevitable . |
| 16 | Biliary extracorporeal lithotripsy has been considered as one of the alternatives to surgery for the treatment of stones in the bile ducts and in the gall bladder in selected patients . |
| 17 | There may also be a place for preserving a useful gall bladder in young patients with solitary or few stones , who may not reform stones . |
| 18 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 19 | ‘ A mean in all things ’ , Nicholas used to say , ‘ was the only way to effect great things with order and effect ’ ; and he laid great stress on a constant interchange of employments . |
| 20 | However , 188/730 26% ( 22.6% to 28.9% ) of responders had A level qualifications or their equivalent ( fig 2 ) compared to 19% of the general population , and this was also related to symptom score , the mean in those with A levels being 2.26 , and without 2.44 ( difference 0.053 to 0.287 ) . |
| 21 | They hereby resolve to use every mean in their power to Detect the Deserters now presented upon a list … " |
| 22 | 1 Using the dictionary page headed frequent , what does the word fresh mean in each of these sentences ? a He was a fanatic for fresh air . |
| 23 | There are several reasons for this ‘ regression towards the mean ’ ; it could be based on a genetic process , or it could be because a father ( mother ) who is above the mean in ability marries on average someone who is less able than he ( she ) , and so the child , reflecting the ability of both parents , is less able than the father ( mother ) . |
| 24 | What will the answer ‘ No ’ mean in this case ? |
| 25 | It is ‘ a sociological phenomenon of Cambodia ’ says Vandy Kaon , a dissident intellectual in Phnom Penh . |
| 26 | MR BRYAN GOULD , 53 , the New Zealand-born contender for the Labour leadership , is the nearest the party still has in high office to a Socialist intellectual in the Anthony Crosland mould . |
| 27 | He is also the only intellectual in a town full of morons , except for Major Scott ( T. P. McKenna ) and the well-meaning vicar ( Colin Welland ) . |
| 28 | Merton for example discusses the social role of the intellectual in public bureaucracy — the ‘ technological ’ wing of social science where the social function of the individual introduces a bias which becomes apparent to the objective scientist . |
| 29 | To understand Nizan it is necessary , finally and perhaps most importantly , to recognise the fact that Nizan was an intellectual in search of moral integrity . |
| 30 | In these words are echoed the spirit of moral crusade and sense of justice that Nizan , in his status as a communist intellectual in the 1930s , came to associate automatically with Marxism . |