Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also shows how a combination of these can easily result in a local economic strategy which has clear political as well as economic goals . |
| 2 | ‘ It is remarkably complete as well as being extremely well presented . |
| 3 | The endeavour was professionally abysmal as well as painful , and his money started to run out . |
| 4 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 5 | Clearly , an unreflective or uncritical citizenry would be highly undesirable as well as , strictly speaking , a contradiction in terms . |
| 6 | Highly entertaining as well as informative . |
| 7 | So-called ‘ button ’ badges , paper print covered with celluloid , are highly collectable as well as being a fascinating guide to social history , says Leicestershire teacher Frank Setchfield , who has a 40,000-strong collection . |
| 8 | Yet it is quite possible to change the feeling of space cosmetically , that is by the clever use of colour , pattern , texture and arrangement , all of which can make space seem much larger as well as unifying and simplifying it . |
| 9 | Things were very simple and this list made that precise point very well but of course this journalist was being somewhat disingenuous as well as cynical . |
| 10 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 11 | This ca n't be good for him , thought Denis , and he remembered the story he had read of an old man in England , although younger than Uncle Mick was now , who lined up to receive the very first old age pension ever issued in England and dropped down dead as soon as his money was passed over the counter to him . |
| 12 | The miners ' strike will give us an opportunity to discuss the militarization of the police , one of the most noticeable as well as one of the most controversial trends of recent years . |
| 13 | In such circumstances , some kind of compromise or attempt to reach a consensus may often be the most democratic as well as the most prudent course . |
| 14 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 15 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 16 | Someone who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy . |
| 17 | That , he reflected , was what happened when the Navy was persuaded to hand over operational as well as administrative control of a ship to a pack of civilians . |
| 18 | All of this is , is just good as well as bits of gold and er and , and you know metal objects , that have always traditionally been interesting to archaeologists . |
| 19 | We seemed to send many searchers away happy as well as laden . |
| 20 | The choice of Blondel , who here had to sing a full octave higher than he normally did , was undoubtedly intended to make the poor village Hymen sound utterly ridiculous as soon as he opened his mouth . |
| 21 | But this irony can be playful as well as belittling ; it can be critically constructive as well as destructive . |
| 22 | Eckstein found that the best educated had access to the most rewarding jobs , ‘ but because such jobs are not expanding as rapidly as schooling , education in itself provides no guaranteed job ’ . |
| 23 | It might seem that the most promising as well as most appropriate way to approach the task of clarifying the concept of ontological existent is to begin by exploring the logical characteristics of proper names . |
| 24 | Oil is easier to obtain and to transport , and it has the advantage of being more homogenous as well as containing hydrocarbons with a higher hydrogen to carbon ratio . |
| 25 | Out in the hall sat several poor unsuspecting patrons of the hotel , one of whom was possibly rich as well as unsuspecting . |
| 26 | Everywhere and inevitably the administrative process is also part of the political process ; administration is always political as well as executive , at least at the levels where policy-making is relevant , that is to say in the upper layers of administrative life … |
| 27 | For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud . |
| 28 | The artist is being at once more primitive as well as more civilized , than his contemporaries . |
| 29 | The petty bourgeoisie of shopkeepers and self-employed tradesmen needed to keep accounts even if only of a primitive kind , but the growing fraction of permanent journeymen among the artisans grew into a more literate as well as more skilled elite section of the labouring classes . |
| 30 | The idea of a static and unchanging countryside is a misreading of history and , as far as the future is concerned , a totally unrealistic expectation-As long as we , as consumers , demand cheap food and as long as this demand is implemented by state-directed agricultural policies , the end product will be the disappearance of the traditional rural landscape and associated farm buildings . |