Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have we not the right to fear for our homeland as well as to fight and die for it ? ’ |
| 2 | All assets or groups of assets will be judged according to two new financial tests , based on return on average capital employed ( ROACE ) and capital expenditure cover — that is , the ability to pay a dividend to the shareholder as well as to make enough to re-invest in the business . |
| 3 | Since , however , local authorities were enabled to subsidize established voluntary grammar schools as well as to found their own secondary schools , social divisions in secondary education were reinforced . |
| 4 | It is hoped to develop and refine the approach by examining specific corporate behaviour and relationships as well as to contribute to analysis in these industrial sectors for major and selected minor European and US firms . |
| 5 | I believe that continuing to hear the language of books as well as to see it gives developing readers a valuable resource in this domain . |
| 6 | The first agreement of its kind to be concluded by the CIS with a former Warsaw Pact country , it provided for the sale of real estate belonging to the former Soviet army in Czechoslovakia and for the use of the proceeds to make good the environmental damage done on those sites as well as to pay for the housing of returning soldiers in Russia . |
| 7 | A chance is given to recover past joys and heal old wounds as well as to provide the experiences which children will , in their turn , look back upon with love and affection . |
| 8 | In most cases I was allowed to read the case file as well as to observe solicitor-client encounters and to attend court . |
| 9 | Babysave is suitable for babies from three months on and is endorsed by the Portia Trust , a charity which was specially set up to prevent baby-snatching as well as to advise any distraught parent whose child has tragically been snatched . |
| 10 | No longer Deputy Chairman , she was now , officially , Design Director , to be concerned with the artistic philosophy of the group as well as to oversee the development of the new product collections . |
| 11 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 12 | De La Rozière was instructed to collect information about arsenals , shipyards and the location of British troops as well as to survey the coast between the Thames estuary and Cornwall . |
| 13 | It will also be possible by interviewing teenage daughters of the women to make inter-generational comparisons as well as to consider the impact of adolescent experiences on the development of self-esteem . |
| 14 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 15 | It can come as a shock to have to buy every stamp , tube of toothpaste or bar of soap as well as to wash and press favourite clothes before going out , and to change and launder their own bed linen . |
| 16 | The aims of the Board have been to improve economic and social conditions as well as to increase the contribution of the region to the national economy . |
| 17 | No one showed himself more resourceful in circumnavigating clerical consciences and objections or more resolute in extracting from them his needs ; even force — used tactfully — was employed to ease conscience as well as to produce cash . |
| 18 | As such , they had a duty to enter each ale-house on a Saturday night as well as to ensure that Sunday was treated by townsfolk with due sobriety . |
| 19 | The answer is fast , focused , relevant information ; information that enables senior executives to formulate and review strategy as well as to monitor performance . |
| 20 | On the other hand , it is our task here to make concrete suggestions as well as to stimulate ideas . |
| 21 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 22 | Universities can now apply for funds to found postgraduate departments as well as to create academic research institutes linking universities with the industrial and business world . |
| 23 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 24 | Funding would also be provided for programmes to familiarize senior black leaders with British institutions of democratic government as well as to assist those involved in the signing of the peace accord . |
| 25 | Hidden behind a shrine-like structure are two touch-screen video programmes , designed to introduce visitors to Korean daily life as well as to provide background information on the more important exhibits . |
| 26 | It 's quite nice because the people at the classes come to hear the music as well as to keep fit . |
| 27 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 28 | According to Margaret Ribble ( 1943 ) , indeed , for the newborn baby ‘ the need for contact with the mother is urgent in order to keep the reflex mechanisms connected with breathing in operation as well as to bring the sensory nervous system into functional activity ’ . |
| 29 | Alfred was an occasional visitor to his kinsman Doniert and stayed with him at Liskeard to hunt the red deer and wild boar as well as to visit St. Gueryr , a friend of St. Neot skilled in healing , Alfred not being a well man . |
| 30 | During 1990-91 Mongolia continued to expand contacts with the industrialized world as well as to develop its relationship with China . |