Example sentences of "a [adj] as [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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31 | Moreover , law has a regulatory as well as a facilitative function in the transformation . |
32 | Their neighbours , the Formstons , were a prolific as well as a long-resident family . |
33 | Deprived after Nechtansmere of the land and tribute from the Picts and Irish which probably underlay such power , Northumbria is likely to have been a poorer as well as a less dominant kingdom . |
34 | But in English the concept of power has a physical as well as a metaphysical connotation ; thus we talk of " water power " , " steam power " , " electrical power " and so on . |
35 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
36 | This distinction , as we shall see later , is partly a curricular as well as an institutional one . |
37 | At its highest level , sex can be a spiritual as well as a physical , mental and emotional experience . |
38 | Smart assumes a prophetic as well as an evangelical mission . |
39 | The deliberate attempt to link learning to the design of instruction provided the necessary discipline to treat learning as a practical as well as a theoretical issue . |
40 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
41 | Bidault , it has been said , leader of the Resistance in occupied France , may have been unaware how the world outside had changed during the war ; but in any event distrusted Ho as a communist as well as a nationalist threat to France 's post-war international position . |
42 | The UNTAC human rights chief , Dennis McNamara , described the signing of the covenants as a pragmatic as well as a symbolic act . |
43 | She added , ‘ The station should be cancelled now , before it turns into a radioactive as well as an economic catastrophe . ’ |
44 | The fact that the title of Khan was a military as well as a civil appointment had not occurred to him until now , but now that he thought about it , the suggestion seemed ridiculous . |
45 | The image of the angel with a gun served a secular as well as a religious function by emphasising the lesson that the Church and the Spanish colonial régime were united in their goal to christianize the Indians . |
46 | Juniper is regarded by many intuitive aromatherapists as having the power to cleanse on a psychic as well as a physical level . |
47 | Thus , when a doctor asks for an X-ray or path lab test , or prescribes drugs , or decides that a patient should remain in hospital for a further two days , he is making a financial as well as a clinical decision . |
48 | The aim of this booklet is to explain to you , if you are at school or in higher education , how becoming an actuary can be the path to a satisfying as well as a financially rewarding career . |
49 | Both questions and feedback have a prospective as well as a retrospective function : they enable the child to build on present understanding and to move forward into new areas of learning . |
50 | To those committed to a relevant as well as a rigorous education , the GCSE is a disappointing anachronism which does n't fit with vocational or pre-vocational criteria exemplified through other contemporary school-based developments for 14–18-year-olds such as TVEI ( Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative ) and CPVE ( Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education ) . |
51 | As heir to the Disraelian belief in elevating the condition of the people and as a party seeking to enhance its image among working class voters , the Conservative Party could claim both a principled as well as a practical motive for maintaining the innovations of its predecessor . |
52 | Duncan and Goodwin claim that state institutions are invaluable in the management and organization of the differentiated and spatially variable societies typical of capitalism , and that to be successful such state intervention should take place on a local as well as a national level . |
53 | The question then is to distinguish cases in which the public benefit is direct and entire from those in which it is indirect and partial , and thereby to obtain a definition which , unlike Lord Macnaghten 's , is a sufficient as well as a necessary condition of charity . |
54 | As we shall see shortly , the Scriptures employ ‘ kosmos ’ in a positive as well as a negative sense . ’ |
55 | However , it must be remembered that technological innovation has a positive as well as a negative side . |
56 | She had evidently decided that the policeman was a handsome as well as an agreeable fellow . |