Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Maley , the series editor , worked for The British Council from 1962–1988 , serving as an English Language Officer in Yugoslavia , Ghana , Italy , France , and China , and as Regional Representative for The British Council in South India ( Madras ) . |
| 2 | It recovered swiftly in wartime as the main staging post between America and Europe , and as temporary home for thousands of American airmen . |
| 3 | As the regime reduced reliance on overt coercion and sought to win greater support , and as international tension began to ease , the scope for genuine research widened . |
| 4 | The applications of copper-based metals were extensive , and as new alloys became available through developments in smelting they were exploited in new ways . |
| 5 | This is because multi-way nodes are represented via alternative ( brother ) pointers , and as new words are added , non-words are often introduced . |
| 6 | Delegates from Austria , Belgium , France , Great Britain , Ireland , Holland , Germany , South Africa , Switzerland , the US and Italy will take part and as new president will be voted in this year to succeed Andrew Hill who has held the post for twenty years . |
| 7 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 8 | His new friends urged him to go to France , where he could do effective political work among the thousands of Vietnamese the war had brought to Europe to fight as soldiers , in the labour corps , and as civilian employees replacing the French who were fighting . |
| 9 | Foremen are promoted from the ranks of production workers and as pivotal intermediaries they have quasi-managerial status . |
| 10 | By the end of November John Major had succeeded her as leader of the Conservative Party , a post she had held for nearly 16 years , and as Prime Minister , an office she had held since 1979 . |
| 11 | His waters were drunk for their health-giving properties and as refreshing beverages , sometimes mixed with syrup or wine . |
| 12 | It has engaged local authorities and local communities as participants and consultees in the strategy making process and as joint actors in regeneration projects . |
| 13 | This , however , needs fuel with a low sulphur content , and as European Community regulations call for this to be progressively reduced , the oil industry is having to undertake multi-million pound capital investment programmes . |
| 14 | In addition to the bicarbonate , iron is sometimes found in water as ferric hydroxide. which can be removed by filtration , and as ferrous sulphate , which requires aeration , neutralization , and settling or filtration . |
| 15 | The Taylors ' main aim is to make their guests feel very welcome and as committed Christians they are happy to see the Mount Hotel used as a retreat . |
| 16 | Depressed women were described as onset cases if their symptoms had begun ( at a caseness level ) , at some point during the previous twelve months , and as chronic cases if their symptoms had begun before this . |
| 17 | Both of these characteristics will be overcome as experience of the new system grows , as colleges meet to share experience and to co-operate in quality assurance and as External Course Assessors provide support and feedback to centres . |
| 18 | Output is now being increased as the domestic cattle population increases , and as tropical forest is felled to make way for grassland — which is ideal territory for termites . |
| 19 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 20 | No real violence may be done , intentionally , to either party and as accidental injury may cause the definition of the situation to change quite radically , it must be avoided . |
| 21 | As the political scene in Europe changes with each day and as political boundaries are in the process of being redrawn into smaller units , based on racial , religious or cultural differences , so one fears an increased intensity of nationalistic , as opposed to patriotic passions . |
| 22 | Finally , we have shown here that DNase I hypersensitivity sites can be used to pinpoint interesting regions of specific importance to the expression of the class II MHC Ea gene , both as composing part of a locus control region , and as possible markers for B cell commitment . |
| 23 | Sir , — I have been most concerned to read the recent press coverage regarding the Surrey Ambulance Service and as general manager , I must put the record straight . |
| 24 | Quite how they will choose to vote is less certain , however , as the poll tax becomes labelled ‘ a Tory tax ’ and as environmental issues and collapsing public services assume a higher priority . |
| 25 | As sound principles come to be reflected in legal phrases and in parliamentary orders , and as good intentions begin to generate a huge superstructure of bureaucracy , there are many causes for concern . |
| 26 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 27 | Within the judicial system solicitors are appointed as masters and registrars of the Chancery Division , taxing masters , Official Solicitor , bankruptcy registrars , district registrars of the High Court , registrars of county courts , stipendiary magistrates , recorders ( and , by way of promotion , circuit judges ) , magistrates ' clerks , and as various kinds of clerk in the Supreme Court , the last with opportunities of promotion ( see later , under Civil Service ) . |
| 28 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 29 | As well as being a very useful skill in itself , Writing allows us to set pupils regular homework , which we see as a valuable extension of learning time , and as essential training in self-discipline for later life . |
| 30 | We became part of GEC-Marconi Electronics and as managing director I reported to Sir Robert Telford and continued to run Hall Automation . |