Example sentences of "a [adj] as [adv] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The UNTAC human rights chief , Dennis McNamara , described the signing of the covenants as a pragmatic as well as a symbolic act . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Juniper is regarded by many intuitive aromatherapists as having the power to cleanse on a psychic as well as a physical level . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 ) . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | As we shall see shortly , the Scriptures employ ‘ kosmos ’ in a positive as well as a negative sense . ’ |
| 43 | However , it must be remembered that technological innovation has a positive as well as a negative side . |