Example sentences of "and as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bright sunlight had straightened the ball 's flight-path , and as Gower fed on the short balls and what he converted into half-volleys , there were fleeting thoughts of a century before lunch , such was his willingness to go after runs . |
| 2 | And as Morse left the pathology block , a quiet little smile of confidence could be seen around the chief inspector 's lips . |
| 3 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 4 | HE CHATTED to his old acquaintance Al Gore , and got on famously with Bill Clinton ; and as Chris Patten , the governor of Hong Kong , left Washington , officials lined up to say what a fine fellow he was . |
| 5 | However , Rennison came off , and as Botterill tried to hold him , ‘ the rope broke with a loud snap . ’ |
| 6 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 7 | Chlorofluorocarbons ( commonly known as CFCs ) are the biggest culprits ; their main uses are in aerosols as propellants , in foam plastics as an expansion agent , in refrigerators and air conditioning systems as coolants and insulators , and as cleaners and degreasers in the electronics industry . |
| 8 | In examining the behaviour of the state , we consider individuals as playing three main roles : as voters , as legislators and as administrators . |
| 9 | The two had arrived in Cyprus , with the cooperation of the DEA , to prepare a documentary on ‘ The Lebanese Connection ’ and as Hurley did not want to be bothered , he deputed Coleman to look after them . |
| 10 | Spells as a sub-commissioner under the National Service scheme and as assessor to the Glasgow dean of guild court ( from 1926 ) were successful . |
| 11 | So he applied it erm more or less universally , not just to biological evolution and as Darwin had . |
| 12 | Tactfully she waited quietly as she noticed Helen 's tension , and as Sophie cut the last thread , covered the wound with antibiotic powder , and bandaged it up , Helen heaved a great sigh of relief . |
| 13 | The bifurcation patterns in the ( a , b ) parameter space have been plotted for unc [ 30 ] , and as b is increased the same pattern of bifurcations into non--periodic solutions ( period doubling , chaos ) is repeatedly seen . |
| 14 | Caves behind the houses used in the past for storage , cooking and as air raid shelters are now part of the museum . |
| 15 | The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power . |
| 16 | He was already renowned for his view that ‘ democracy is something to be struggled for , not conferred from above ’ , and as Kelly points out , this doctrine was voiced during the September protests . |
| 17 | James never married , and as Christopher and Lowther 's only daughter Jane left no offspring the Whitehaven dynasty died with James in 1755 . |
| 18 | and as Councillor said . |
| 19 | The concept of precious as distinct from merely useful substances could only have arisen in societies enriched by aesthetic sensibilities and sufficiently aware of persons to wish to symbolize relations between them as individuals and as enactors of social roles . |
| 20 | We were surprised to find that the plinths used for exercise and as tables during the day are their beds at night ! |
| 21 | In a similar fashion , and as Tables 3.6 and 3.7 show , establishments where the workforce is declining , both in the long-term and the short-term , are less likely to be users of fixed-term contract workers . |
| 22 | All three IBOA Resolutions on the Order Paper were adopted unanimously and as space does not enable us to reproduce the full statements made to Congress a precis is given here-under . |
| 23 | One unfortunate Girl had a more ample bosom than her colleagues and as Jennie could see her sticking out in front , she was ordered to get further back . |
| 24 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 25 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 26 | More complete is the Temple of Vesta in the Forum Boarium ( also known as Mater Matuta and as Portunus ) . |
| 27 | And as rats are so abundant ( as many as 5000 may live in a pair 's range ) many will escape the talons of the nocturnal predators . |
| 28 | And as Stavrogin describes his search after new and ever stronger and more bizarre sensations , and as he laments his boredom , and as suicide is touched on , tracts of Crime and Punishment open up again : but without the astral , feathering humour of America , anatomy , and ordinary ghosts . |
| 29 | But she had been in his strong arms before , and as agitation at her own weakness assailed her , so , while she still could , she fought to be free . |
| 30 | Erm the the leader of the of , of , of the group is , is the focus and as Dean has said and as Joy explained , takes over functions of the individual 's ego , super ego . |