Example sentences of "[adj] be [adj] [subord] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 The face has always had a dialectical relationship to art and , today perhaps , this is stronger than ever as we view the face — in portraiture — with a scepticism characteristic of our age and as we witness the convergence of popular culture and fine art in so many spheres .
2 Of these six dozen beers 10 are organic as well as being naturally conditioned .
3 All is well as long as the subject is lying down , but when he stands up , the reflexes which normally make arteries all over the body contract to meet the new hydrostatic conditions no longer operate effectively , and a sharp and dangerous fall of blood pressure follows .
4 And ratios of four to one were common as well as in China and other places erm , even in the middle ages in this country there is evidence that the sex ratio was quite seriously skewed er in favour of males and away from females .
5 I mean , when you 're actually directing a piece of work , and it does n't matter who you 're working with … they know constantly how you feel about it , and that 's sub-text as well as text , and it 's osmosis ; and a lot of it is very elliptical and oblique and subtle , and it goes on all of the time ; and you know from them how they 're taking it , how they 're working and what they think of it by exactly similar sorts of processes you get those feedbacks , and you see the work .
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