Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might seem that fax 's current growth in popularity is attributable to a technological breakthrough or perhaps to some new commercial need to communicate pictorially as well as texturally . |
| 2 | It can wiggle sideways as well as up and down . |
| 3 | Let's jump sideways as well as forwards and backwards . |
| 4 | It shows how in reality there is a need to communicate horizontally as well as vertically . |
| 5 | A strong image will assist in this identification , although it can act negatively as well as positively . |
| 6 | Future risks — ‘ there should be a cultural shift in the audit so that it looks forward as well as backward ’ . |
| 7 | His work is grouped thematically as well as chronologically in this catalogue : thus the first volume covers the ‘ table ’ sculptures , his strange , sprawling ‘ still life ’ assemblages made to be viewed at waist height , from 1966–78 ; the second and later volumes continue with this idiom , while the substantial Volume III deals with larger scale , outdoor steel sculptures . |
| 8 | But as the anorexia progressed , my walks became longer as well as more frequent and , if I decided to follow the perimeter of the school grounds , could last for up to three hours . |
| 9 | The bass section is fully enclosed as expected , but the rest of the enclosure is open a the back , and only partly enclosed at the sides , making the system free to radiate backwards as well as forwards ( this property is known as ‘ dipole ’ , or figure of eight radiation ) . |
| 10 | The accused was not dishonest , judged objectively as well as subjectively . |
| 11 | From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward . |
| 12 | Frustrated dynastically as well as sexually , Ecgfrith is likely to have blamed Wilfrid for Æthelthryth 's contumacy . |
| 13 | Schooling fish , therefore , swim faster as well as more safely than fish that swim alone . |
| 14 | Two of Hassler 's earliest publications were settings of Italian texts , Canzonette a quattro voci ( Nuremberg , 1590 ) and 33 Madrigali ( 1596 ) ; sometimes they lean heavily on specific Italian models : thus his canzonetta , ‘ Io son ferito , Amore ’ , borrows musically as well as textually from Palestrina 's ‘ Io son ferito , ahi lasso ’ . |
| 15 | It is not always realized that the pain of loss is experienced physically as well as mentally . |
| 16 | Turbulence has been observed to appear first of all in small spots restricted laterally as well as axially and presumably forming in the boundary layer . |
| 17 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 18 | The programmer must , however check that the equivalent routine performs adequately as well as theoretically doing the same function . |
| 19 | Lisney adds to The Seasons three pieces , the Op. 59 Dumka a piece lasting some eight minutes , not easy to hold together as well as here , the Op. 5 Romance written for Désirée Artôt and the Op. 7 Valse-scherzo . |
| 20 | The madrigals , more clumsy and old-fashioned , look back to the models of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder [ q.v. ] rather than forward to the looser , more expressive style of Thomas Morley [ q.v. ] ; two of them ( xxi and xxii ) borrow musically as well as textually from Ferrabosco 's settings , published by Nicholas Yonge [ q.v. ] in the influential second volume of Musica Transalpina ( 1597 ) . |
| 21 | These examples are more comprehensive too , because they put before us the ways people communicate visually as well as verbally . |
| 22 | ‘ A trustee can only be indemnified out of the pockets of his cestuis que trust against costs , charges , and expenses properly incurred for the benefit of the trust — a proposition in which the word ‘ properly ’ means reasonably as well as honestly incurred . |
| 23 | The analysis of the dialectics of the centre and the margin can thus operate geographically as well as conceptually , articulating the power relationships between the metropolitan and the colonial cultures at their geographical peripheries . |
| 24 | Since 1974 , and particularly since 1979 , the use of imprisonment has been increasing relatively as well as absolutely . |
| 25 | They were buffeted psychologically as well as physically , and , although W.G. Quaife batted tidily for undefeated 40 , the crafty Hampshire pair , Alec Kennedy ( 4 for 47 ) and Jack Newman ( 5 for 53 ) ran through Warwickshire for 158 , the last wicket falling at 4.20pm . |
| 26 | Darwin , as a genealogical biogeographer , thinking horizontally as well as vertically , to use Ernst Mayr 's ( 1982 ) terms , would explain change generationally but not developmentally . |
| 27 | If you are working outside as well as inside the home , try to use some of your earnings to ease household jobs — for example , substitute duvets for sheets and blankets to save laundry and bed-making , or buy a food processor to do in seconds what takes hours by hand . |
| 28 | Picasso was quite capable of working conventionally as well as experimentally , and Max Jacob himself was not keen on the drawing , which made him look ‘ very much the old peasant ’ . |
| 29 | By contrast , Germanic philologists of the nineteenth century laboured long and hard to prove that grammatically masculine and feminine words have semantically as well as formally gendered qualities . |
| 30 | Sambrook makes the striking assertion that : ‘ The idyll of unspoiled Auburn could be read prospectively as well as retrospectively . ’ |