Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] as [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 2 | But this irony can be playful as well as belittling ; it can be critically constructive as well as destructive . |
| 3 | This would also raise important questions regarding the policies and practices of institutions with regard to : selecting students , and ensuring that the selection procedures are appropriate in identifying students with the potential for success ; ensuring that they are adequately prepared for their course of study , and providing assistance where necessary through appropriate pre-entry provision ; supporting students during the time that they are in the institution , including ensuring that approaches to teaching and learning are appropriate as well as providing the study skills and counselling support required . |
| 4 | The Scherzo opens hesitantly then produces some delightful ideas , lyrical as well as sparkling , and is splendidly played , with real Slovak fervour . |
| 5 | It is important to use moisturizing cream day and night so that the skin should feel soft as well as looking good . |
| 6 | psychological as well as getting fed up with them in n it ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 9 | you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Have you no conscience at all about short-changing the poor as well as betraying your election commitments ? ’ |
| 11 | He is surrounded there by everything he loves ; he can walk for mile upon mile and meet nothing more taxing than the occasional sheep ; he can fish one of the best salmon rivers in Britain ; he can stalk deer , a sport he finds fascinating as well as challenging ; and he can paint . |
| 12 | The strains are emotional as much as physical , as the carer tries to keep everyone happy as well as trying to make sure , as far as possible , that no harm befalls the elderly mothers during the hours that they spend on their own . |
| 13 | Unlike a trade association or informal market , an exchange is expected to carry out regulatory as well as trading functions . |
| 14 | Within walking distance are the horseriding stables where lessons are available as well as trekking for more experienced riders . |
| 15 | So although positivist criminology did concern itself with social and economic conditions , in a way that classical criminology did not , it mostly ended up just as timid-looking as far as drawing ‘ corrective ’ conclusions was concerned . |
| 16 | She lectures extensively on maps and the collections of NLS in particular as well as promoting a very active outreach programme designed to make the Map Library and its contents better known throughout Scotland . |
| 17 | He said he hoped to use his year as chairman to try and double the membership from 100 to 200 as well as helping with training . |
| 18 | The analyst proceeds : 'All mothers have to be frustrating as well as loving . |
| 19 | While the engine is out of the boat we will renew the sound insulation in the engine compartment , which is very dirty as well as having been superseded by much better materials in the intervening years , and install a much-needed light — have you tried to get a Volvo MD7a dipstick back into its hole , aboard a Sigma , in the dark ? |
| 20 | Malcolmson has shown that fairs had special significance in terms of courtship and sexual activity for the young as well as allowing participants the chance of winning status and prestige among their peers . |
| 21 | With Major announcing that Government support would now total £115 million as well as pledging it would underwrite costs , they hailed his enthusiastic involvement as their trump card . |
| 22 | Careful alignment of the loading system in the vertical plane , before putting in a specimen , is necessary as well as clamping of the specimen using self-centring grips . |
| 23 | That from the nobility , gentry , clergy , yeomanry and freeholders of Middlesex considered the action both illegal and arbitrary as well as threatening to the very concept of private property : " the pretended necessity of reserving for the public service the specie deposited by individuals in the Bank … may be pleaded at any time , and applied , with equal reason , to any private property whatsoever " . |
| 24 | A beige carpet and soft green walls made the room light and spacious as well as providing a sufficiently neutral background . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 27 | The clip is dual-purpose in that as well as holding the slate in position , it also secures it against wind uplift which is a possible cause of the original slippage . |
| 28 | If we want to support the United Nations in its role and in the reorganisations that we have suggested , it is essential that we vote the means for that as well as talking about it . |
| 29 | Tokenism , as this ‘ women 's season ’ showed , can be useful in that as well as making a gesture towards ‘ minority ’ interest it at the same time betokened the absence of women 's film on television which it sought to undo . |
| 30 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |