Example sentences of "and [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mallachy had taken some persuading , and as the two young women emerged , he gave a sour grunt . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The resurrected Osiris had no further part to play on earth , and as the immortal dead king he became the ruler of the dead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She explained that it had been dyed , and as the English-speaking French boy explained to his friend , she caught the word ‘ Morte ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As Jennings ( 1982 , p. 67 ) has observed , most councillors are backbenchers , not policy-makers , and about the only vital service they see themselves doing is casework for their constituents . |
| 19 | So I learnt about the Greeks and Romans , and about Christ , and about the first white men in America and the sad story of the Indians . |
| 20 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 21 | There was a report in the paper about the coronation and the unveiling of the memorial to Queen Victoria two days before the coronation , and about the many crowned heads of Europe who were going to be present , including the German Emperor , the late Queen 's grandson . |
| 22 | Bill Thorneycroft ( born 1926 ) , Jeffrey Weeks ( born 1945 ) and Mark Sreeves ( born 1958 ) talk about becoming gay , about gay male identity , about gay male relationships and about the gay male community . |
| 23 | He was cared for by his mother , who survived him , and for the remaining thirty years of his life roamed the neighbourhood aimlessly , he and his theory totally forgotten . |
| 24 | They found that 161 of the children were admitted , and for the remaining 200 children the initial decision was that they should not come into care although subsequently a significant proportion did . |
| 25 | If there is only one adult resident , a discount of 25 per cent can be claimed ( s79 ) ; it is important therefore that if husband and wife cease to live together each of them should notify the local authority that separation has taken place so as to end joint liability and for the remaining resident spouse to claim the discount ( if applicable ) . |
| 26 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 27 | Others who may already have experience take a course of the discipline and for the refreshing new ideas that it brings . |
| 28 | That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up . |
| 29 | Models have been produced for the world magnetic charts , the navigational charts published by the British and American naval authorities , and for the International Geomagnetic Reference Field ( IGRF ) , widely used in science and commerce . |
| 30 | This , and the alliance with Italy and the countries of Eastern Europe ( Romania , Hungary ) enabled them to present themselves as pan-European , fighting the war for the sake of Europe and for the new European order against the peripheral or non-European powers . |