Example sentences of "[pron] as [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people backing it ‘ bunkered ’ ( disappeared with the money ) and as Producer Tiller felt morally bound to pay off all the artistes himself as well as to find their return fares . |
| 2 | The House proved willing to amend or reject legislation put before it as well as to remove individual ministers and on the occasion the government itself . |
| 3 | An estimated 5,000 public-sector health workers , taking action against government privatization plans , were joined on strike in late June by 8,500 banana workers , who came out both in solidarity with them as well as to demand a 60 per cent wage increase to offset the effects of the government 's March austerity plan . |
| 4 | We urgently need funds to be able to respond effectively and to meet the increased demands being made on us as well as to maintain our existing work . |
| 5 | More representatively there can be a sneaking hope that to explain is somehow to justify ; and the novels , plays and poems that depict British self-sufficiency and its lapses often smack , like Larkin 's poem ‘ Vers de société ’ , of a sort of rueful mock-modesty : a determination to put a case for oneself as well as to record a mood . |