Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It blocked off the end of Granville Street , Vancouver 's main thoroughfare , and was consciously designed to present the city both as the great terminus of the transcontinental railway and as a great Oriental gateway . |
| 2 | The Microlin fx , like the Gem , is available as an internal card modem ( at £249 ) and as a small external modem ( at £299 ) . |
| 3 | Andrew Beattie and his wife grew up in Oldpark , Belfast , and as a young married couple settled in Rathcoole . |
| 4 | The last part of this reading is the most profound , and is of great interest both as an exegesis of Marx , and as a general philosophical position . |
| 5 | Simon 's burgeoning career at the Medical Office in the 1860s coincided with the consolidation of the status of the medical profession , both as a privileged domain of expertise and as a distinctive cultural grouping within the middle-class . |
| 6 | The £700,000-rated Stockwell has this season excelled at full-back , in midfield and as a goalscoring makeshift striker . |
| 7 | Gehlen 's army career had begun in the late 1920s and as a staunch Nazi supporter he had enjoyed rapid promotion until he became military intelligence chief of Hitler 's Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East . |
| 8 | Her best hope of surviving it successfully lies in your maturity and willingness to act as a temporary crutch for her and as a quiet stabilising influence until she learns how to walk alone and unaided . |
| 9 | Deafened at the age of three months as a result of a fall from his nurse 's arms , he took full advantage of his independent means by devoting his life to the service of his fellow-deaf as an honourary missioner in his native city of Liverpool and as a licensed lay reader excelling in the conduct of religious services for the deaf . |
| 10 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 11 | Mallachy had taken some persuading , and as the two young women emerged , he gave a sour grunt . |
| 12 | In other words , foreign auction houses should have been able to start holding auctions in Paris in 1993 , and as the two big auction houses are much more powerful and widely expert than any French auctioneering partnership , the commissaires-priseurs had good reason to be frightened . |
| 13 | The resurrected Osiris had no further part to play on earth , and as the immortal dead king he became the ruler of the dead . |
| 14 | She knows that she ought to ring her mother , that there is still a faint possibility that she might ring her mother , but that possibility is already fading , and as the admonitory red glare of the clock clicks silently to 20.20 it gasps and dies within her . |
| 15 | Jeremy Bates began his single minded quest for world computer points with ruthless discipline , and as the highest ranked player on the circuit , had to deal with the ensuing pressure to win every match . |
| 16 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 17 | As the stern controller of cosmic justice , punishing the breakers of God 's cosmic rules and order and as the frenzied cataclysmic destroyer , the Goddess functions alone . |
| 18 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
| 19 | In ( 79 ) it is not just the action itself which is asserted : ( 79 ) He had a singular red cap on — not like a sailor 's cap , but of a finer colour ; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged , and his anticipative death-knell rung , he was seen by all of us to wave it . |
| 20 | Yet , crucially , this painful awareness of the historically constituted ‘ nature ’ of oppositional identities is not disavowed but itself reconstituted within and as the humanist universal affirmation : ‘ The negro is not . |
| 21 | She explained that it had been dyed , and as the English-speaking French boy explained to his friend , she caught the word ‘ Morte ’ . |
| 22 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 23 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 24 | As the base of the Japanese economy becomes more and more industrial and commercial , less and less dependent on the support of the rural sector , and as the shrinking agricultural sector in its turn has less to offer to the rest of the economy , this mutual interdependence between the two sectors will diminish still further . |
| 25 | This is so even though territorial rights previously granted by the predecessor colonial power to third States might be considered as of over-riding importance for a new State , and as an unacceptable continuing incident of prior colonial rule . |
| 26 | It 's available in card form and as an external portable version . |
| 27 | The satellite is to be deployed 22,300 miles above the equator , and has been variously described in the technical press as designed to monitor Soviet compliance with arms treaties and as an advanced eavesdropping satellite , able to monitor , record and re-transmit hundreds of Soviet communications channels , including voice , data and telemetry . |
| 28 | At the edge of the circle sat Wilkie and his girl , like photographic negatives , Caroline olive-dark in a white bikini , hair and skin black to Frederica 's dazzled eyes , and Wilkie , blacker still , soot-black , except for the neat , white , exiguous triangle of his genitals , the smiling teeth , light striking off the bright black hair and off the huge butterfly-blue sunglasses , reflecting in their inscrutable surfaces pearly sky and sand and pearly sea . |
| 29 | The differences between reading experiences are often perceived as being fuzzy , and so a more realistic representation of a greater number of texts would have loci at points within and between the nine prototypical nodes . |
| 30 | The two Cabinets had met jointly in San'aa on Jan. 20-22 and in Aden on March 21 , while impetus was also given by the opening of the border [ see p. 37266 ] , by meetings between Saleh and al-Bid in Ta'izz on March 8 and in Aden on May 1 , and between the respective Prime Ministers in San'aa on May 1-4 , and by progress made in joint committees at ministerial level . |