Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds , in the middle of a big metropolis and with an unemployment rate below the national average , can now justifiably day-dream of challenging its western neighbour , Manchester , for the title ‘ commercial capital of the north ’ . |
| 2 | Napoleon III was well aware of the danger posed by prolonged disputes about the Spanish succession and in an attempt to bring the problem to a quick end , he proposed as a ‘ neutral ’ candidate the Portuguese Prince , Fernando , husband and former King-Consort of Queen Maria . |
| 3 | Kung fu was primarily developed as a method of self-defence and as an exercise to promote good health . |
| 4 | The hierarchical nature of news organizations — both as a chain of command and as an information processing organization — ensured that the power centre remained well removed from the specialist correspondents . |
| 5 | It emerged that a video camera had been trained on part of the premises of the night club and on an area where an incident preceding the arrival of the police and part of the incident said to be the violent disorder had taken place . |
| 6 | Images have always crowded Bevan Davies ' mind and in an effort to capture them he has been a photographer for many years . |
| 7 | It can also act as a dilution guide , when the level of foam is related to concentration and as an activity indicator , whereby the formulation is adjusted so that when detergency is exhausted the foam collapses . |
| 8 | Finally , on April 10 it was given out that the government had agreed to the opposition 's main demands for the rapid legalization of political parties and for an amnesty for political activists . |
| 9 | In nearly all cases the must will be dosed with sulphur dioxide , which will encourage this settling process as well as act as an aseptic agent and as an antioxidant . |
| 10 | Jarvis saw them get into the next car and on an impulse he jumped up and followed them . |
| 11 | The second aspect considered here will be how the C C P structured their tax system as a means of both investment in industry and as an incentive to agricultural productivity . |
| 12 | The more one looks back on the record the more one is impressed by the role of Mrs Thatcher as a dominant figure and as an illustration of the power of the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | This year it is therefore EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that we all sell our 2 books and as an incentive HQ say that each branch returning their block of completed lottery ticket stubs with a single branch cheque can keep 20% . |
| 14 | It was , in fact , a double discovery , both of a new microbe and of an agent which destroyed it . |
| 15 | The proponents of unitary authorities in the Royal Commission on Local Government in England accepted a need for a wider authority for some services in the metropolitan areas and for an authority that could prepare a strategic plan for conurbations . |
| 16 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 17 | Viscount Nigel-Constantine and the elderly Bishop Hugh of Lisieux waited until the agreed time and took ship , with decorum and in an atmosphere of surprising goodwill . |
| 18 | Flying at 2,000mph and at an altitude of 80,000ft crews often saw more of the world in one day than most people see in their lifetime . |
| 19 | Money is demanded both to finance day-to-day transactions and as an asset , perhaps being part of an individual 's or firm 's speculative activity . |
| 20 | Training was associated with normalisation of external anal sphincter phasic contraction and with an increase in squeeze duration in all patients . |
| 21 | That afternoon the convener communicated his version of the story to the shop steward 's committee and within an hour every department was buzzing with the news . |
| 22 | Ellen would doubtless tell me that the senator was trying to turn an electoral liability into an advantage , meaning that if he could parade his cured children in front of the electorate he could then pose as both a noble parent and as an expert on drugs , but I preferred to ignore that imagined cynicism , choosing a different reservation . |
| 23 | Before the sale , Murphy and Cree deliberately gave some of their stake to their fellow directors and to an employee trust as a means of motivation . |
| 24 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 25 | This means that police person power is being used on an issue and in an area where it really is not necessary . |
| 26 | He said that he hoped that legislation would be approved by June for the establishment of a transitional executive council and of an election committee whose aims would be to create the conditions for free and fair elections . |
| 27 | He had been hopelessly spoiled as a child and as an adult continued to act as he chose , accepting neither advice nor criticism . |
| 28 | Kate had known the security of love , as a child and as an adult . |
| 29 | These interviews will explore the ways in which patients think about health and illness at a general level , and diabetes in particular , using an approach which depends upon asking the person to recount their personal experiences in the areas of interest , both as a child and as an adult . |
| 30 | A day of prayer for the spread of the Gospel and for an increase in vocations to the Priesthood . |