Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And as the Beatles died , so too did the decade : youthful optimism and a passion for ‘ liberation ’ gave way to the oil crisis , Watergate , unemployment and disillusion . |
| 5 | It was very handy , being so close to town , and as the Lock family are much of an age with our boys we had a very jolly time together . |
| 6 | As this approach dominates US political science , and as the US model was transplanted into Japan during the Occupation , it is , in some ways , not surprisingly the dominant perspective . |
| 7 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 8 | I would hope to look them eye to eye and speak to them as one of humanity as I am , as people who have suffered as I have , and as have 3,000 people in Northern Ireland and as the Balls now have in Warrington . |
| 9 | ‘ Random tests are an expensive business and as the IAAF are awash with money they need to look at how they are spending it . |
| 10 | And as the Saatchi shares peaked ahead of the 1987 stock market crash the seeds of its financial decline had already been sown . |
| 11 | This book addresses that need and as the Independent said : |
| 12 | It 's Christmas , 1912 , and as the McKie family prepare for the festivities , the ambitions of the younger members show that the world is rapidly changing . |
| 13 | This attempt failed and the Rotonda served time as a hospital for contagious diseases and as the Milan hospitals ' laundry before becoming a permanent centre for exhibitions . |
| 14 | Our investigations of temporary worker users revealed the same picture as economic theory would predict and as the LFS had indicated — that most temporary workers were occupying relatively low-skilled positions . |
| 15 | And as the Silver Jubilee drew near , the need to find a company to release the Pistols ' ‘ commemorative ’ recording was becoming acute . |
| 16 | And as the Marsh dismissal raged , Spartak compounded Liverpool 's agony when Andrei Piatnitski struck the second goal in the closing seconds . |
| 17 | Most guitarists would expect to pay anything between £500 and £1000 for an all-American , quality-built , pro-standard instrument , and as the EGs here fit that bill , their asking price of around £800 would seem reasonable . |
| 18 | The choice of a name caused some division of opinion but it was agreed that the word ‘ youth ’ should be used , and as the Merseyside group had publicized ‘ youth hostels ’ , this stuck . |
| 19 | He was elected an alderman in October 1773 , held office as mayor in 1773–4 , 1782–3 , and 1787–8 , served as treasurer to the corporation from 1781 to 1789 , and as the Warwickshire county bridge-master during the same period . |
| 20 | Africa and off the Canaries with a bathymetric range of 930–1700 m . |
| 21 | Gallup says that it compared sales in chart shops on and off the CBS list and found no difference . |
| 22 | The committee decided that the best site was in Thomas ' Close in the south-west of Bedford and off the Ampthill Road ; the land belonged to the Duke of Bedford . |
| 23 | You can use your included Canal Bus Pass to hop on and off the Rembrandt cruise . |
| 24 | Spain and off the Azores ; with a bathymetric range of 1478–2170 m . |
| 25 | This species has been recorded from the Rockall Trough , the Bay of Biscay and off the Azores with a bathymetric range of 1862–4252 m . |
| 26 | This species has been recorded from the Rockall Trough and off the Azores with a bathymetric range of 168–560 m . |
| 27 | Partnership , self-validation , academic independence , delegation , greater responsibility , sharing of responsibility , academic freedoms … this is some of the pervasive vocabulary within the CNAA and between the CNAA and its institutions in the 1970s . |
| 28 | AT&T Co yesterday said that it had filed an application with the UK regulatory authorities to challenge British Telecommunications Plc by offering communications services within the UK , and between the UK and the US . |
| 29 | This ‘ mapping ’ exercise would aim to identify strengths and weaknesses in services and existing links between primary and secondary health care and between the NHS and local authority social services . |
| 30 | In view of the recent emphasis on community care as against hospital treatment , a priority area for research in the Centre was the analysis of the effects of financial systems at various interfaces both within the NHS and between the NHS and other services . |