Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students of the academy were therefore to begin by arranging and cataloguing the papers of the foreign ministry as well as studying foreign languages and history . |
| 2 | Others , like Tim Robinson and Derek Randall , have their own businesses so that leaves us to fix up about 10 or a dozen with work at Trent Bridge , coaching and helping the commercial department as well as working on their game . |
| 3 | Her passenger , let us say , observed that she braked suddenly to avoid some pigeons and then carefully negotiated some roadworks as well as stopping at several sets of traffic lights . |
| 4 | A learner therefore has to adjust to many different environments as well as learning about a particular specialty . |
| 5 | A chance is given to recover past joys and heal old wounds as well as to provide the experiences which children will , in their turn , look back upon with love and affection . |
| 6 | Most of the recruits to the senior positions were from within the industry and in the months up to the planned vesting day — 1 April 1948 — most retained their old jobs in the pre-vesting undertakings as well as carrying out their new responsibilities of planning for the change . |
| 7 | Pat Keen has spearheaded the growth of Medau in CORNWALL over the past few years as well as organising our display at the Cornwellian Exhibition . |
| 8 | And it was a problem finding a ledger system which could meet this need as well as Excel , as Mr Nabakov explains : ‘ Typically , many of the accounting systems are unable to handle this , and only offer 12 or 13 reporting periods . |
| 9 | De La Rozière was instructed to collect information about arsenals , shipyards and the location of British troops as well as to survey the coast between the Thames estuary and Cornwall . |
| 10 | A supervised exercise programme helps moderate this behaviour as well as relieve the abdominal discomfort associated with rapid weight gain . |
| 11 | The aims of the Board have been to improve economic and social conditions as well as to increase the contribution of the region to the national economy . |
| 12 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 13 | To date there has been no systematic study of Hotelling 's life and work ; this is a major omission in the study of the history of economics , since Hotelling was responsible for pioneering major developments in the mathematical methods of theoretical economics as well as furthering our understanding of specific questions in economics . |
| 14 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 15 | Hidden behind a shrine-like structure are two touch-screen video programmes , designed to introduce visitors to Korean daily life as well as to provide background information on the more important exhibits . |
| 16 | But the song might spread from one bird to another by imitation — and give British Telecom a lot of free advertising as well as confuse telephone subscribers . |
| 17 | This fear of fear will both provoke further symptoms as well as preventing the existing ones from diminishing naturally . |
| 18 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
| 19 | No better example can be given than by citing the careers of Tamara Karsavina and Margot Fonteyn , both of whom worked with many different choreographers as well as submitting themselves to the severely classical discipline of the older Petipa repertoire . |
| 20 | It is likely that there would be significant opposition to the idea that local taxes should bear the burden of redeeming the old debt as well as building up new capital . |
| 21 | When the first parental rumblings voicing criticism of a hitherto unknown junior school in Islington , North London , became public , few watchers of the educational scene imagined that they marked the beginning of a long-running drama which would fill many column inches in the daily press as well as provide material for a TV documentary . |
| 22 | In his report on the seminar , François Bouneau of the French Protestant Radio Service called for ‘ a critical celebration that could open avenues of hope for the people of Latin America as well as helping us to reconsider our relationship with Third World nations . ’ |
| 23 | All these contributed much to a sense of fellowship and corporate social identity as well as providing opportunities for personal development and individual enrichment . |
| 24 | it was the ‘ fourth estate ’ taking governments to task and protecting the public interest as well as representing public opinion ; and it could also help create a politically literate society . |
| 25 | In order to be awarded the general SVQ , a student must pass the additional assessment as well as achieving the required number of credits . |
| 26 | It aims to achieve a high level of income for ordinary shareholders as well as providing capital growth . |
| 27 | The scheme could help to curb traffic on Hong Kong 's crowded roads as well as distributing the cost of paying for the roads more fairly . |
| 28 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 29 | Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs . |
| 30 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |