Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun] " 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 | And as the buzzard travels , and the lark lifts |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He also knew how to live well by dining at expensive restaurants and going to the theatre , and as the Heritage Secretary he had invaluable contacts in the acting world . |
| 5 | The Yalta Repatriation agreement was the culmination of months of negotiation between the governments involved , and as the documents summarised at the end of this volume indicate [ see KPs 1–16 ] , consideration of British policy on this matter had been continuing on the highest level since the summer of 1944 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | These are the quantities with which physics deals and as the subject ventures into new regimes remote from common experience it must adjust its concepts to match whatever it finds there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clint as The Outlaw Josey Wales … and as the Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As Anglican church discipline was tightened and as the Oxford Movement spread its influence throughout the clergy the happy-go-lucky attitude of older Broad and Low Churchmen was put on the defensive . |
| 17 | But this difficulty was quickly and neatly overcome : the man who hired the car — a man , yes ! — gave the telephone number of The Randolph , and as the firm 's representative was dialling the number he casually mentioned that the Deputy Manageress of The Randolph could be immediately contacted on a certain extension . |
| 18 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |
| 19 | And as the squabble boiled over , the company threatened never to return if the theatre pressed for lost bar takings , estimated to be £1,650 . |
| 20 | Have the Government finally abandoned the erstwhile Tory doctrine that the rule of law must be upheld in all circumstances , now that the Attorney-General is turning a blind eye to big supermarkets breaking the Sunday trading law and as the poll tax non-payment campaign has apparently recruited the architect 's daughter ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It functions as a tool of thought ; as a means of social organisation ; as the repository and means of transmission of knowledge ; as the raw material of literature , and as the creator and sustainer — or destroyer — of human relationships . |
| 23 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 24 | A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Time of Troubles had further weakened their position , and as the Duma swelled in size from about 30 in the 1620s to almost 180 in the 1680s , the old families found themselves dissolving among the parvenus . |
| 29 | And as the conversation f went on a little further eventually the man said the policeman said for no accountable reason And what 's your load anyway ? |
| 30 | And as the antidote to such things it is devoutly to be wished . |