Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the inroads made by professional astronomers , he abandoned meteor observations , and as a new challenge he began in 1953 to sweep the sky for comets , at first using a 10-cm ( 4-inch ) refractor . |
| 2 | If the shareholders agree on a value , and do not refer the matter to the company 's auditors , their agreement and the ensuing transaction may be invalid because the price of the shares has not been established in accordance with the company 's rules ; and as a practical matter it might be unfair to other shareholders . |
| 3 | And as a first step we should demand three things essential to give any chance to retain ship building on Tyneside . |
| 4 | He argues that the sociology of knowledge is a hermeneutic approach aimed at understanding rather than evaluation and as a critical theory it creates a level of communication and understanding across different perspectives . |
| 5 | As a copyright owner you have a legal right to prevent unauthorised copying of your work and as a practising artist you need to be aware of what you can and can not do with regard to using ‘ second-source ’ material as ideas for your own work . |
| 6 | Greathead was involved in the early 1890s with several other deep tunnel railway schemes , including the Blackwall tunnel under the Thames , and as a complete contrast he was also associated with ( Sir ) C. Douglas Fox [ q.v. ] in the construction of the Liverpool overhead electric railway , opened in 1893 . |
| 7 | He was commissioned to oversee the burning of the martyr , Snell , at Richmond , and as a zealous Catholic he took part in the Pilgrimage of Grace . |
| 8 | Kitzler was also a provincial musician , but he was well versed in Beethoven 's compositional methods and as a working instrumentalist he seems to have been shrewdly aware of what the leading contemporary composers were up to . |
| 9 | ‘ No ’ does n't mean ‘ I hate you and wish you were dead and as a personal vendetta I refuse to let you have what you want' , it simply means ‘ no ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ No ’ does n't mean ‘ I hate you and wish you were dead and as a personal vendetta I refuse to let you have what you want' , it simply means ‘ no ’ |
| 11 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 12 | And as a general outline it 's a strength of the company U K P L C the actual computer market within the U K has worldwide reputation for its quality , technical expertise and it has already got a good er holding in various companies all around the world . |
| 13 | An " accommodated " child is not in care and as a general rule he may be removed at any time without prior notice . |
| 14 | Embarrassment is under no obligation to be comic , though it is most naturally that , and as a fictional theme it is of inexhaustible power and seemingly unending appeal . |
| 15 | Alan Davies did , and as a stand-up comedian he has refined a form for its expression that the live circuit and television like . |
| 16 | On moving to Switzerland , he had forfeited his German citizenship and was therefore ineligible for active service , but an exception was made for him , and as a German patriot he was allowed to volunteer in the capacity of medical orderly . |
| 17 | It might be argued that Cheshire was untypical : there was no great local lord , and as a palatinate jurisdiction it was specially linked to the Crown . |
| 18 | And as a special treat we have lined up jokes from the last people you would expect to give you a laugh , ranging from the dreaded tax inspector to an undertaker ! |
| 19 | True to form , Orwell in his notes on Waugh disapprovingly named snobbery and Catholicism as the two driving forces of the novel , and as a secular radical he must have felt obliged to reprobate the one as much as the other . |
| 20 | Well , you are beginning to lose it , and as a medical man I assure you it will do you more good than harm . ’ |
| 21 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 22 | The show was given before an invited audience of some 1,200 music fans each week , and as a visiting newspaperman I was afforded special treatment . |
| 23 | ALAN McCloskey , from the Rook 's Nest , Armoy , has strung together some wonderful performances this year and as a fitting reward he has been re-elected secretary of the Ballymoney pool league . |
| 24 | Cade towards the end of his life was being superseded by Jewish moneylenders , and as a Christian usurer he would come to appear as something of an anomaly after his death . |
| 25 | He ‘ valued himself upon the sieges and services he had been in ’ ; and as a military expert he drew the attention of the Long Parliament ( summoned on 3 November 1640 ) to the danger from the Irish army under the command of Thomas Wentworth , first Earl of Strafford [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | Both types of stretching increase flexibility , and as a basic rule you should do static stretching before exercise and both ballistic and static after exercise . |
| 27 | ‘ The Seconds needs a manager and as the senior professional I took the job on for four or five weeks . ’ |
| 28 | They would still like to have some toddler swings for the playing field and as an interim measure it was suggested that one of the existing swings should be fitted with a suitable toddler seat . |
| 29 | Both psychologically and as an actual threat it weighs heavily on the minds of the South Koreans . |
| 30 | Now is the time to prove them right by entering our Christmas literary quiz — and as an added incentive we are offering a bottle of Glenmorangie for the first correct entry drawn out of the hat . |