Example sentences of "and [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And occasionally the bishop might call for the Laudes regiae , the litany ‘ addressed solely and triumphantly to the victorious Christ in his divinity as the eternal king of heaven and earth , and as the exemplar and guarantor of power and prosperity to all potentes who upheld the fabric of a unitary Christian society — pope , king , royal family , clergy , lay magnates and warriors ’ . |
| 2 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 3 | Cottam suggested that he too should have been paid for his fortnight 's service , but the Governors replied that they were under the impression that " his services had been tendered on behalf of and as the personal friend of Mr. Hamilton " . |
| 4 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 5 | In other words , foreign auction houses should have been able to start holding auctions in Paris in 1993 , and as the two big auction houses are much more powerful and widely expert than any French auctioneering partnership , the commissaires-priseurs had good reason to be frightened . |
| 6 | Mallachy had taken some persuading , and as the two young women emerged , he gave a sour grunt . |
| 7 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 8 | Well , Rocktron 's system might not be everyone 's idea of perfection , but it 's beautifully put together with state-of-the-art components , and as the first of a potential wave of ‘ off the peg ’ rack systems it 's the one the rest will have to beat . |
| 9 | ‘ It has been a special privilege to serve under you in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary and as the first Secretary of State for National Heritage . |
| 10 | She was an apostle of teacher training and as the first woman to be elected to the senate of London University promoted the foundation of the London Day Training College and the accompanying chair in education . |
| 11 | Dave Robson La Ronde Gulbenkian Studio Theatre , Newcastle ARTHUR Schnitzler 's Reigen is perhaps best known under its French title and as the first of two film versions , made by Max Ophuls in 1950 , is remembered as the quintessence of Viennese elegance . |
| 12 | Nkrumah was excluded : and as the other UGCC leaders remained preoccupied with their task , he strengthened his political standing with the public . |
| 13 | The resurrected Osiris had no further part to play on earth , and as the immortal dead king he became the ruler of the dead . |
| 14 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 15 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |
| 16 | Husbandmen , as was to be expected with the most numerous class — and as the typical countrymen — comprehended a broad spectrum . |
| 17 | And as the Chartist Bronterre O'Brien wrote , ‘ In spite of the Devil and Malthus , the work people are resolved to live and breed . ’ |
| 18 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 19 | These developments reflect the government 's acceptance of the importance of education as the key instrument in the liberation of human talent and as the principal agent of the country 's economic regeneration . |
| 20 | She knows that she ought to ring her mother , that there is still a faint possibility that she might ring her mother , but that possibility is already fading , and as the admonitory red glare of the clock clicks silently to 20.20 it gasps and dies within her . |
| 21 | She told her wrist computer to give the speeder the settings for the shuttle hangar , and as the automatic pilot cut in she turned , intending to climb up to what was left of the weapons deck . |
| 22 | This role is an important one in the county 's educational library provision , and as the administrative channel through which all ordering of materials passes , is pivotal to the project . |
| 23 | And as the former were also comparable with the pavement from Great Witcombe , the latter exhibit similar , fairly close parallels with mosaics 7 , Verulamium ( pls. 20 ) , ( closer than those which they share with any other mosaic in this group ) . |
| 24 | The great twelfth-century historian William of Malmesbury says that Æthelred deprived his people of their possessions without proper reason , and as the late Anglo-Saxon legal system is known to have confiscated property for a wide range of misdemeanours it would certainly have been open to abuse of this sort . |
| 25 | They heard no more from behind them and as the small amount of sky they could see between the tree-tops was clouded over there was nothing to give them direction . |
| 26 | But at the same time , it increased risks for national governments , both as helmsmen for the national economy and as the ultimate authority responsible for maintaining or improving the creditworthiness of the state as a debtor seeking finance from the system . |
| 27 | The Order of Things by contrast points to the emergence of historicity as a mode of understanding , and argues that ‘ History ’ , both as a form of knowledge and as the primary state of being of empirical phenomena — broadly speaking , the assumption of all Marxisms — is itself a historical phenomenon . |
| 28 | The changing face of Eastern Europe has already had a dramatic affect on the malt market and as the political and economic climate becomes more stable new opportunities will doubtless emerge . |
| 29 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |
| 30 | Jeremy Bates began his single minded quest for world computer points with ruthless discipline , and as the highest ranked player on the circuit , had to deal with the ensuing pressure to win every match . |