Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was present , of course both in a capacity as future commander and as the reporter of events for " Coastlines " . |
| 13 | And as the cost of living wen went up our wages went up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And as the kind of girls you seem to prefer would think a job like mine utterly boring , I do n't see how you can possibly say I 'm just like them . |
| 18 | At Cleveland , an immense skyscraper station , with a central tower and clock fifty-two storeys high , consciously designed as a city gate and as the centre of a great transportation network , was built between 1923 and 1930 . |
| 19 | The joint degree course provides a general education in rural resource management and focuses on farming and forestry as the principal rural industries and as the centre of attraction in land use planning . |
| 20 | As a preacher who cultivated an accessible style of preaching , as a monastic legislator , and as the convenor of a number of major church councils , he was perhaps the most influential product of Lérins . |
| 21 | And as the handmaid of religiosity , ritual 's part was to express and impress those sentiments of group adherence on which the orderly life of the social organism depended for its survival . |
| 22 | There were indications during 1990 that the global debt situation , which had been steadily worsening since the early 1980s , might be starting to ease , as lenders from the developed countries resumed their credits to the developing world and as the return of confidence in the global economy prompted a resumption of foreign investment . |
| 23 | Gandhi refers to ahi sā as his eternal creed for every activity , and as the law of the human species . |
| 24 | Falling as decadent decline , degeneration , and as the sense of the result of Original Sin is ubiquitous . |
| 25 | Or What ? ’ controversy , and as the manufacturer of shockingly tasteless , but nevertheless very popular , gaudy mountain clothes . |
| 26 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo described the development as " a significant turning point in world history " and as the removal of the " last external constraint " for peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula . |
| 27 | ( His views derived from his experience in two roles , as a Professor of Geology at Edinburgh University , and as the editor of scientific journals ) . |
| 28 | ( His views derived from his experience in two roles , as a Professor of Geology at Edinburgh University , and as the editor of scientific journals ) . |
| 29 | They could have been caught while young and retained in captivity , and as the result of hand-feeding and regular handling they would eventually have become quite domesticated . |
| 30 | Yeah , this , this is interesting , it gets confusing perhaps because erm , I rang British Section , British Section today erm , enquiring about er , ah , there it is , were , were are we , erm enquiring about er groups having two prisoners you brought this up last time and as the result of me talking to somebody there erm , it became clear that British Section still showed us as having Sabri Lushe as a prisoner , erm and they were n't aware that we were no longer dealing with him , he 'd been released , and what they say is they usually get conformation from International Secretarium |