Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ecgfrith remained undeterred , however , and his army had traversed Strathmore when it turned aside to experience total defeat on 20 May at Nechtanesmere , otherwise known as Dún Nechtain ( AU s.a. 684 : AT p. 209 ) and as the Lake of the Heron ( HB ch. 57 ) , now Dunnichen in Forfarshire . |
| 2 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 3 | It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service . |
| 4 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 5 | The daughters of Charles the Cheesemonger were still very much around , however , and as the offspring of a man in trade and one who , despite his early death , had enjoyed quite a full working life , they were fairly well-breeched compared to the daughters of their Uncle John . |
| 6 | Somehow ‘ Carlsson ’ does n't quite cut the mustard like Porsche 's ‘ Carrera ’ , but these are the first of the company 's production-line cars to have a name — like BMWs , they have always had numbers — and as the man at Saab said , at least you can pronounce it . |
| 7 | Clint as The Outlaw Josey Wales … and as the Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars |
| 8 | Could you at the same time treat the biblical texts as objects of critical scientific study and as the medium of a message from God ? |
| 9 | English was essentially seen as concerned with the contents of " great works " and as the medium for transmitting a " broader culture " , which meant establishing a dominant role for literature . |
| 10 | Boutros Ghali , 69 , who was also the first Arab to assume the post , acquired an international reputation as a key negotiator at the 1978 Camp David talks between Egypt and Israel , and as the architect of Egypt 's policy towards sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 11 | In this context knowledge can be understood as the presuppositions shared by members of a social group and as the meanings through which their action and experience are mediated — as a whole it may be recognized as the perspective of the social group . |
| 12 | Instead he thought only of his personal safety , and as the army from Addis Ababa under the formidable Dedjazmatch Balcha drew near he fled into the Danakil desert . |
| 13 | It is a year since the General Election , and as the chairman of the Scottish executive , Anne McGuire , observed at Labour 's conference in Inverness , the party has not fully realised the implications of that defeat . |
| 14 | Thus , encouraging learners to explore and share their own personality can actually be seen as an unwarranted intrusion on privacy , and as the imposition of alien attitudes , in some cultures and for some individuals . |
| 15 | And as the antidote to such things it is devoutly to be wished . |
| 16 | Conversely , and as the price for treating the company as its own , the dominant undertaking will be liable for the obligations of the company if the company defaults and this seemingly will apply even to preexisting obligations ; however , the dominant undertaking will be able to apply for relief from liability if it did not itself cause the company 's default . |
| 17 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 18 | In both schools , the investment in furniture , fittings , and decoration , and no less importantly in teacher-librarians , was substantial , and as the head of School A argued , may well have more than matched the project grant . |
| 19 | And as the aspirations of the various professions , of students , of the ‘ third element ’ rose , so did their exasperation at continuing official inefficiency , corruption and oppression . |
| 20 | What differentiates the Asiatic system is that while in the ancient or feudal systems the community sees itself as a fundamental unit and as the holder of its common property , in the oriental case it does not . |
| 21 | Doi ruthlessly exploited the difficulties which the 1989 Recruit scandal caused for the LDP and as the personification of the nascent Japanese women 's movement she was successful in attracting female voters who had become disillusioned with the political process and estranged from the ruling party . |
| 22 | I was present , of course both in a capacity as future commander and as the reporter of events for " Coastlines " . |
| 23 | Accuracy is cited both in percent error and as the shortfall in ohms . |
| 24 | And as the cost of living wen went up our wages went up . |
| 25 | Information about the structure of the velocity fluctuations is given by other average quantities , the first being the mean square fluctuation , is known as the intensity of the turbulence component , and as the intensity of the turbulence . |
| 26 | ‘ The use of the name of a character such as Blinky Bill as the title of a book and as the description of a character in the book does not constitute the use of that name as a trademark , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The four companies revealed substantial losses in the half year to September , as the public reaction to the corruption allegations grew , and as the mood in the Tokyo exchange remained subdued by the property price collapse afflicting the country . |
| 28 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 29 | Increasin increasing , it 's not just a question of support , it 's a committed partnership , and as the boundaries between public , private and voluntary sectors , become less rigid , these partnerships will continue to grow . |
| 30 | There appear to be no important differences in performance on intelligence tests in the working age range and as the influence of physical effort in work becomes less important so it is more feasible that jobs can be performed equally well by either sex . |