Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It had been a confusing afternoon as well as a satisfying one , but one thing was clear , quite clear .
2 In May 1948 numerous European political figures met at the Hague and called for the creation of a European parliament as well as an economic union .
3 The presence of the weak interaction as well as the electromagnetic interaction in this process gives rise to an asymmetry whereby an experiment should detect more positive muons in the forward hemisphere ( as defined by the direction of the electron ) than in the backward hemisphere .
4 In Switzerland there are very few real plains , and the term Mittelland ( in which Mittel means something like " betwixt and between " ) is applied to the great areas of pre-alpine hills and of rolling plateau country which over millenia have been settled and cultivated by the ancestors and predecessors of the Swiss , and on which have grown the great historic centres of agricultural civilisation as well as the civilisation of cities .
5 My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will announce who is to carry out that review as soon as the consultants have been chosen .
6 Category one had the largest entry as well as the most interesting ( and hardest — we were using Northumberland grades ! ) problems .
7 The English Association was set up to promote the maintenance of " correct use of English , spoken and written " , the recognition of English as " an essential element in the national education " , and the discussion of teaching methods and advanced study as well as the correlation of school with university work.48 From the beginning , personnel attached to the new Board of Education seem to have been sympathetic to the view of English as the most natural candidate to lead a mission of cultural renewal : at any rate , from its inception the English Association set out to ensure that such was the case .
8 Practical classes and laboratory work are part of this training , with opportunities to use all the tools of the social scientist as well as a variety of equipment in surveying and photogrammetry , computing and Geographical Information Systems ( GIS ) , and physical geography .
9 This is sometimes used as a dipping condiment as well as a seasoning .
10 Among the honours courses special mention may be made of Drama , which offers coverage beyond the purely English field as well as the opportunity for practical theatre work in ‘ drama workshops ’ .
11 Peter , as you know , I 've taught this course , tutored some of the students in it , and I find it myself a very challenging and interesting course if only because the students are always unearthing new facts and figures about energy which catch me by surprise .
12 Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess .
13 You do not have to climb too high to earn yourself splendid views over the country on the French side as well as a close-up sight of raptors perched or circling amongst the rocks .
14 Our Chairman was a master printer , older than I was but an extremely good-looking man , so that my excitement had a sexual side as well as a political one .
15 Writing in 1947 , Hogg ( later Lord Hailsham ) , presenting the Conservative Party case against the reforms introduced by the Labour government , felt that the rate of income tax ‘ has become a potent cause of social harm as well as a source of revenue ’ .
16 The ordinary universe is a social manifesto as well as a literary position .
17 Sukie recovered , and there were no charges to be brought , but she was a favoured public child as well as a minor and something stuck .
18 Further memories were revived by a visit from his mother in the summer of 1921 which brought ‘ another anxiety as well as a joy ’ when Eliot was working on what would become The Waste Land .
19 Similarly , France had to accept some relaxation in its position or risk seeing the five go ahead by themselves : the latter option would undoubtedly see a reduction in French influence as well as the likelihood of the five soliciting British membership .
20 Indeed it was a very misty and cloudy start , but the sun did break through in the west , the east getting some rain as well as the grey stuff .
21 They can multiply faster than the chromosomes , because , when they do move , a copy is left behind at the old site as well as a new copy appearing at the new one .
22 My first example , which is very well-known , exemplifies this point as well as a number of the other themes which I have been discussing .
23 Thus , the new version of English ( often now explicitly distinguished from " English Language arid Literature " ) offered a sense of ontological security as well as a pedagogic programme , based particularly upon a conception of self generating and autonomous value .
24 Since all goods are donated , most of them of high quality coming from the more affluent within and outwith the parish , charges for them can be minimal so providing a social service as well as a subsidy towards the hall expenses .
25 Despite so much rebuilding , Turku Cathedral , like that at Trondheim , retains its Medieval character as well as a national one .
26 He discussed the basis of the Governments foreign policy as well as the debt settlement and unemployment .
27 This American volume includes Brubaker and Brubaker 's consideration of the stress of giving care in old age as well as the frequent stress of receiving it .
28 This is a cultural belief as well as a personal one .
29 On the basis of partly theoretical data for an extensive sheep croft , enlarged to 10 ha by subletting adjacent crofts , with 20 ha of improved grazing as well as a share of common grazing , the net income from sheep farming goes up to £1,598 .
30 Mr Wilson says this gave him a different approach as well as a wider experience of business .
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