Example sentences of "and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Random tests are an expensive business and as the IAAF are awash with money they need to look at how they are spending it . |
| 32 | Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) . |
| 33 | Brain , the team 's only international , has been on the point of resigning both as a player and as the club 's salaried steward , and his decision will not be known until today . |
| 34 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 35 | On the other hand the EEC Nine produces only 64% of its consumption of sheep meat and it is generally assumed that the UK with approximately 25% of the EEC sheep flock and as the leading producer of 50% of Community production is well placed to reap some advantage which could be of benefit to the hills and upland areas . |
| 36 | July 1945 , and as the number of people expected to attend was considerably more than the Chiswick Town Hall could accommodate , the ceremony was held at the Chiswick Empire , hired for the occasion , and to which ‘ Monty ’ accompanied by the Mayor , Alderman T. W. Stroud , J.P. , rode in a landau carriage through cheering crowds . |
| 37 | The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels . |
| 38 | The quantity of water raised from the lower to the higher level will on the average equal that lowered from the higher to the lower level so that there will be practically no loss of water by lockage and as the vessels transported by the lifts are waterborne the weight of the load carried by the dock is always the same whether the vessel be loaded or not and whether the dock contains a vessel or not . |
| 39 | That is , they use light energy to split water , and extract hydrogen ; and then combine this hydrogen with ( low-energy ) carbon dioxide to produce high-energy organic molecules : molecules which in turn act as fuel and as the raw material from which is fashioned almost all living flesh , both animal and plant . |
| 40 | This increased as agriculture grew more intensive , and as the number of livestock and the application of fertilizer has been increased . |
| 41 | In a period of change not everyone wins , and as the Club entered into a financial loan/supply of goods arrangement with Courage ( Central ) , Henley Brewery lost its unique relationship with the Club , although its beer is still the most popular one on sale . |
| 42 | And as the opening arguments unfolded in the agricultural college at Cannington ( five miles from Hinkley Point ) , the balance of forces looked distinctly like the traditional contest of David and Goliath . |
| 43 | This attempt failed and the Rotonda served time as a hospital for contagious diseases and as the Milan hospitals ' laundry before becoming a permanent centre for exhibitions . |
| 44 | And as the years from retirement lengthen , it seems more and more tenuous to group men in terms of long-past work , let alone women who since marriage may never have been in paid work at all . |
| 45 | It was of enormous symbolic importance as the second city of Northern Ireland , as the site of the legendary siege of 1689 in which the Protestants resisted the forces of James II , and as the town in which a Nationalist majority was denied control of local government by a particularly flagrant gerrymander of the electoral boundaries . |
| 46 | At Cleveland , an immense skyscraper station , with a central tower and clock fifty-two storeys high , consciously designed as a city gate and as the centre of a great transportation network , was built between 1923 and 1930 . |
| 47 | And as the Western media talks about a 3rd World War starting in the Gulf , millions of people all over the world know that the Third World War started long before the battle in the Gulf . |
| 48 | Prices will be decided by such factors as the supply/demand relationship , the cost of recovery as the search for fossil fuels moves to less and less hospitable regions and as the shift to more highly processed secondary fuels such as substitute natural gas and synthetic liquid continues . |
| 49 | More often than not , oils chosen this way turn out to be the very ones needed at the time , and as the person 's physical and emotional state alters , so might their aroma preference . |
| 50 | But it is well known that the provision of advice services nationally is uneven and as the best.known generalist advice agency , the CAB feels that it would be failing the wider community if it did not consider what barriers may be preventing people from approaching a CAB for advice . |
| 51 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 52 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 53 | The close identity between fans and their club has weakened as football has become big business and as the players , who were once from the same working-class community as the fans , have become rich superstars . |
| 54 | For Best and Marinello the George and Ringo of football stardom was a thing of the past and as the ‘ 60s receded into the '90s all that was left was a future that football would ultimately disown . |
| 55 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 56 | She explained that it had been dyed , and as the English-speaking French boy explained to his friend , she caught the word ‘ Morte ’ . |
| 57 | In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved . |
| 58 | It was my rest day but I knew how many aircraft had taken off , and as the sky lightened with the early summer dawn , we waited tensely in Hut 4 for them to return . |
| 59 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 60 | And as the relationship between fat intake and cholesterol levels in the blood serum of any particular individual is very variable , why should we even try ? |