Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 They were much prized for cutting as well as for bedding , and by 1917 they were listing the immaculate white ‘ Purity ’ , to be sown for flowering in pots at Easter .
2 We are committed to legislating as soon as possible on a new scheme to protect hedgerows and to notify the intention to grub up .
3 Thus Davy was happy at the Royal Institution to give series of lectures on agricultural chemistry , and to work on tanning as well as on potassium and chlorine .
4 In part it was done by exploiting as fully as possible many small miscellaneous sources of income , such as fines on recusants and the revenue of vacant episcopal sees ; in part by careful and economic management — the household expenses were kept rigidly down in an age of inflation and the building of royal palaces was brought to an end ; in part by rewarding courtiers and officials from wardships and monopolies .
5 Arrobo is used for sweetening as well as for giving body .
6 Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course .
7 National emission standards for hazardous air pollutants were to be established by the EPA and would apply to existing as well as to new industrial plants .
8 We compromised on borrowing the Land Rover for positioning , followed by walking as far as their enthusiasm took them .
9 ‘ I was n't thinking of going as far as that .
10 Unlike Myc , Max is a stable protein that is expressed in resting as well as in growing cells ( T.D.L. , D. Hancock and G.I.E. , unpublished results ) .
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