Example sentences of "and as a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Remembrance is thus able to move further into our lives than visits to memorials , was graves or churches — important as these are as symbols and as a focus of personal and public remembrance . |
| 32 | In all society , and as a condition of the survival of society , there is a balance between human characteristics . |
| 33 | There are some artists who rarely write their own material ( Cliff Richard is the classic example ) , and as a result , the specialist songwriter always has a place in music publishing companies . |
| 34 | More recently he produced the overall sound coverage of Live Aid , and as a presenter one of his programmes , ‘ Three at 30 , Marvin Gaye ’ , won the 1989 New York International Festival 's Gold Award for Best Talk/Interview Special . |
| 35 | But such a situation is also presented as a thing pre-done , interpreted by being seen in terms of Antony 's meeting with Cleopatra as portrayed by Shakespeare , and as a thing re-done , since the third meeting , that of Princess Volupine with Sir Ferdinand Klein presents us again with a similar situation . |
| 36 | Homosexuality does not birth new warriors for liberation … [ it ] is an accelerating threat to our survival as a people and as a nation . ’ |
| 37 | For all the talk of ‘ cuts ’ , state spending on health has increased by nearly a third in real terms since 1979 , and as a share of total public spending it has moved from 14 per cent in 1978 — 9 to 16 per cent in 1988 — 9 . |
| 38 | Yet in spite of several Cabinet meetings to make reductions , total spending actually increased in real terms and as a proportion of GDP . |
| 39 | The major economic argument for the area was as a way of expanding the zone of multilateral trade in the short run , and as a source of ‘ highly beneficial trading and banking relations ’ . |
| 40 | Such concentrations of population are frequently regarded as a burden on food supplies , and as a factor likely to worsen the balance of payments as consumer goods and food are sucked in from abroad , either openly or clandestinely . |
| 41 | In southern Africa , such regional groups will do little to counteract the internal political frailty of the countries in the area , and as a result South Africa will have plenty of opportunity to pursue malevolent policies of destabilization if it chooses to do so . |
| 42 | The overthrow of the gentile constitution , which occurred as a result of technological changes , and as a result of the presence of the pairing family , is , according to Engels , the beginning of history as understood by Marx : the exploitation of one class by another and the resulting class struggles . |
| 43 | None the less many writers seem to imply that it is , and as a result their position is unclear . |
| 44 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 45 | Under the inevitable power lines the church looked rural , too : a simple wooden structure with a sharp , narrow steeple prodding at the sky as if to remind God that it was there , its bell clanking as an additional reminder and as a summons to the faithful . |
| 46 | He will also want to prove just how much he has matured both as a player and as a man . |
| 47 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 48 | But Judge Wroath told the jury yesterday : ‘ I am satisfied the prosecution have not in this case produced evidence and as a matter of law have not proved the case to the requirements of the Act . ’ |
| 49 | There were warning signals in between , and as a result he was placed on an at-risk register three weeks before he died . |
| 50 | But its better way , whereby once bidders pass a quality threshold franchises are awarded to the highest bid , has been almost universally condemned for putting money before quality of service , and as a ludicrous attempt to avoid exercising judgment over a vital decision . |
| 51 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 52 | He kept up an unrelenting gentle moral pressure on his authors or collaborators , and as a commentator , like Tolkien he selflessly put much of himself into the work of others . |
| 53 | After the contra field commanders ' rejection of their exiled political leaders , and as a result of Washington 's loss of leverage , the estimated 12,000-strong force has become an even more unpredictable element in a complex equation . |
| 54 | He claims there were only four turnstiles to admit thousands of Everton supporters and as a result he and his party were still queuing , in crushed conditions , at 3.10 . |
| 55 | Mr Day was threatened with an injunction last year when he completed the final draft of his book , most of which deals with his career in the Royal Marines and as a civil servant during the Emergency in Malaya . |
| 56 | He wanted to rebuild Western Europe , both as the commercial partner of the US and as a bulwark in a peaceful settlement of a continent . |
| 57 | NFC stands as a monument to the irrelevance of both nationalisation and denationalisation ; and as a monument to the vision of Sir Peter Thompson and his colleagues whose commitment to employee involvement has made the transport group , which was floated in February , the one privatisation that got away . |
| 58 | As an ‘ old China hand ’ , Mr Bush apparently prides himself on his personal understanding in dealing with the Chinese ; and as a former CIA director , he is not averse to secrecy . |
| 59 | And as a Warsaw Pact leader they know him more intimately in the Kremlin than in the West . |
| 60 | And as a consequence , it has always been prohibitively expensive . |