Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He 's better known as Captain Kirk and after that as T.J. Hooker .
2 In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all .
3 Entwined with the question of politics and of film-making as self-expression — a matter of class privilege ( Diaz-Abaya ) or cultural struggle ( Dhanraj ) — -was the issue of women 's sexual objectification .
4 After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid .
5 After ordination he worked as a chaplain with German prisoners of war for the YMCA and from 1948 as secretary for German affairs with the British Council of Churches Inter Church Aid and Refugee Service , the forerunner of Christian Aid .
6 Hitherto part of French West Africa , the Republic of Benin ( known as the People 's Republic of Benin until February 1990 and until 1975 as Dahomey ) achieved full independence from France in 1960 .
7 Later on , Bauthumley became a minor corporation official at Leicester , in 1658 as serjeant-at-mace , and in 1667 as library keeper .
8 It was abandoned when the new church was built in 1909 and in less than severity years has fallen into complete ruin — a good indication of how severe the Dales weather can be and how quickly buildings succumb to its assault .
9 This was especially so after the death of Edward 1 in 1307 , and in particular when Edward III decided to turn his imperialist ambitions against France .
10 William Wegman usually appears in books on the art of the last two decades in his role as a pioneer Conceptual artist — and in particular as author of a piece called " Family Combinations " ( 1972 ) .
11 Such a place is as beyond Jen as Xanadu .
12 Umbrellas were produced as though by magic as thunder threatened close by .
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