Example sentences of "with [noun prp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly there is now one spot in the timetable when there are two passenger trains in Aberystwyth at the same time , necessitating shunting in the station to the centre road or run round and shunt token working with Borth as the intermediate point . |
| 2 | And Professor Dowd 's reach swiftly became global : fourteen years after the publication of his monograph and a year after America adopted his system , so the International Meridian Conference in Washington agreed as well : the entire world , not just the American portion of it , should be divided into time zones with Greenwich as the prime meridian . |
| 3 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 4 | Basically it was the songs and a sort of mime play with Jack , Lindsay and David leading into a set piece with Lindsay as the old woman feeding the birds , which is a wonderful one , where the bird grows and grows to a monstrous size and finally devours the old lady . |
| 5 | With God as the absorbing focus of our lives , we can act and love , trust and desire , in ever-deepening channels that flow into the ocean itself . |
| 6 | The attack came in at around 1300 , with Luqa as the main target , the attacking force being identified as comprising thirty-eight Ju87s , twelve Ju88s , ten Do1 7s or 215s ten He111s and twenty to thirty fighters . |
| 7 | With three per cent of its gross national product devoted to research and development , the country ranks with Japan as the heaviest investor of science in the world . |
| 8 | Advanced in certain respects , it was also divided between an industrialized and Russian-dominated east ( with Kharkov as the chief city ) and the rural west ( with the ancient capital of Kiev ) , between the cities inhabited by Russians , Poles and Jews ( the historic instruments for the Russification of the Ukraine ) and the Ukrainian peasants of the countryside ( with Polish and Russian landowners ) . |
| 9 | Franciscan legend thus presented the faithful a generation later with Francis as the allegorical saviour of the universal Church . |
| 10 | Lord Sempill could not afford the time , and flew home , so Fred Crocombe decided to take his place for the rest of the flight , with Wood as the sole pilot . |