Example sentences of "a [adj] as [adv] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 2 | It is therefore likely that support for Ælfheah 's cult in London had a political as well as a religious aspect , and so the removal of his relics may indeed have been expected to provoke opposition . |
| 3 | Besides being far more satisfactory , it is submitted , from a social as well as a legal-theoretical standpoint , it would provide a framework applicable to all unions . |
| 4 | This principle of self-help , of ‘ harambee ’ when applied at school level , may emphasise local differences , may lead to some difficulties over matters of replacement and repair , but , because it emphasises the community 's participation in the education of its children , must be accounted a social as well as a financial good . |
| 5 | Handbell ringing has potential as a social as well as a musical activity in church . |
| 6 | However , the Census is a diachronic as well as a synchronic dataset . |
| 7 | Jurisdiction must involve the power to make a wrong as well as a correct decision . |
| 8 | However , I can not get excited by them ( and that applies to the passion they generate in a sexual as well as a moralistic sense ) and would certainly not ever describe them as sublime . |
| 9 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 10 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 11 | But , of course , rabbits are a commercial as well as a sporting crop and on that basis most efforts at containing their numbers are carried out when the bulk of the rabbits are likely to be mature . |
| 12 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 13 | The concept of structure is replaced in Derrida 's writing by the concept of a chain of signification which avoids the dangers implicit in the notion of structure : by being open-ended and non-teleological it does away with any idea of a commanding entity within the system , and by having a temporal as well as a spatial dimension it can not itself be reduced to the status of entity or object . |
| 14 | And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population . |
| 15 | Some general managers of state radio stations are former NBC men or women accustomed to thinking in a national as well as a local context . |
| 16 | It seems that the nine-month gestation period has a psychological as well as a physical reality in human life . |
| 17 | It is at this point that the nation state begins to acquire a psychological as well as a purely administrative significance . |
| 18 | He saw Owen redden with pleasure , and laughed , flinging an arm about his shoulders so forgetfully that it was a worthy as well as a willing sacrifice Owen made for him , containing the pain of the embrace . |
| 19 | In such traditions , when a session is in progress , one or more of the participants may be designated as ‘ guardians ’ , to protect the room or space that is being used , checking on a mental as well as a physical plane that it is not being intruded upon . |
| 20 | There was a mental as well as a physical strength to Svend 's uncle and she would n't like to be the one who trespassed on his preserves . |
| 21 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 22 | Hostages are a useful as well as a time-honoured gesture of mutual trust . |
| 23 | Moreover , law has a regulatory as well as a facilitative function in the transformation . |
| 24 | Their neighbours , the Formstons , were a prolific as well as a long-resident family . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At its highest level , sex can be a spiritual as well as a physical , mental and emotional experience . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |