Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ecgfrith remained undeterred , however , and his army had traversed Strathmore when it turned aside to experience total defeat on 20 May at Nechtanesmere , otherwise known as Dún Nechtain ( AU s.a. 684 : AT p. 209 ) and as the Lake of the Heron ( HB ch. 57 ) , now Dunnichen in Forfarshire . |
| 2 | And as the buzzard travels , and the lark lifts |
| 3 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 4 | He also knew how to live well by dining at expensive restaurants and going to the theatre , and as the Heritage Secretary he had invaluable contacts in the acting world . |
| 5 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 6 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 7 | These are the quantities with which physics deals and as the subject ventures into new regimes remote from common experience it must adjust its concepts to match whatever it finds there . |
| 8 | Clint as The Outlaw Josey Wales … and as the Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars |
| 9 | Somehow ‘ Carlsson ’ does n't quite cut the mustard like Porsche 's ‘ Carrera ’ , but these are the first of the company 's production-line cars to have a name — like BMWs , they have always had numbers — and as the man at Saab said , at least you can pronounce it . |
| 10 | Could you at the same time treat the biblical texts as objects of critical scientific study and as the medium of a message from God ? |
| 11 | English was essentially seen as concerned with the contents of " great works " and as the medium for transmitting a " broader culture " , which meant establishing a dominant role for literature . |
| 12 | Boutros Ghali , 69 , who was also the first Arab to assume the post , acquired an international reputation as a key negotiator at the 1978 Camp David talks between Egypt and Israel , and as the architect of Egypt 's policy towards sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 13 | But this difficulty was quickly and neatly overcome : the man who hired the car — a man , yes ! — gave the telephone number of The Randolph , and as the firm 's representative was dialling the number he casually mentioned that the Deputy Manageress of The Randolph could be immediately contacted on a certain extension . |
| 14 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |
| 15 | And as the squabble boiled over , the company threatened never to return if the theatre pressed for lost bar takings , estimated to be £1,650 . |
| 16 | Have the Government finally abandoned the erstwhile Tory doctrine that the rule of law must be upheld in all circumstances , now that the Attorney-General is turning a blind eye to big supermarkets breaking the Sunday trading law and as the poll tax non-payment campaign has apparently recruited the architect 's daughter ? |
| 17 | It functions as a tool of thought ; as a means of social organisation ; as the repository and means of transmission of knowledge ; as the raw material of literature , and as the creator and sustainer — or destroyer — of human relationships . |
| 18 | A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow . |
| 19 | Instead he thought only of his personal safety , and as the army from Addis Ababa under the formidable Dedjazmatch Balcha drew near he fled into the Danakil desert . |
| 20 | It is a year since the General Election , and as the chairman of the Scottish executive , Anne McGuire , observed at Labour 's conference in Inverness , the party has not fully realised the implications of that defeat . |
| 21 | Thus , encouraging learners to explore and share their own personality can actually be seen as an unwarranted intrusion on privacy , and as the imposition of alien attitudes , in some cultures and for some individuals . |
| 22 | And as the conversation f went on a little further eventually the man said the policeman said for no accountable reason And what 's your load anyway ? |
| 23 | And as the antidote to such things it is devoutly to be wished . |
| 24 | Whitsuntide was 17 May in 1030 , and as the saint 's body was raised during the following night , it would have entered Canterbury on 18 May . |
| 25 | And as the evolution proceeds , small changes in the degree of bias can be expected to result commonly in much greater changes in the final cultural product . |
| 26 | Conversely , and as the price for treating the company as its own , the dominant undertaking will be liable for the obligations of the company if the company defaults and this seemingly will apply even to preexisting obligations ; however , the dominant undertaking will be able to apply for relief from liability if it did not itself cause the company 's default . |
| 27 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 28 | In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office . |
| 29 | And as the horror sunk in , the form of a man who won nine titles last season deserted him . |
| 30 | Therefore , and as the court ruled on similar grounds in relation to the words , ‘ the operation of a branch , agency or other establishment ’ referred in article 5(5) of the Convention ( judgment of 22 November 1978 in Somafer v. Saar-Ferngas A.G. ( Case 33/78 ) [ 1978 ] E.C.R. 2183 ) , the concept of matters relating to a contract should be regarded as an independent concept which , for the purpose of the application of the Convention , must be interpreted by reference chiefly to the system and objectives of the Convention , in order to ensure it is fully effective . |