Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copper had made a completely recovery , he was as sound as ever although a little on the thin side in an attempt to save his legs . |
| 2 | Jurisdiction must involve the power to make a wrong as well as a correct decision . |
| 3 | However , the Census is a diachronic as well as a synchronic dataset . |
| 4 | Identifying the specific concrete practice of an occupational group is , of course , a theoretical as well as an empirical task . |
| 5 | The mutations all reside in a sequence element that contains an imperfect direct as well as an imperfect inverted repeat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Handbell ringing has potential as a social as well as a musical activity in church . |
| 11 | as the level of average consumption rises , an increasing portion of consumption takes on a social as well as an individual aspect … the satisfaction that individuals derive from goods and services depends in increasing measure not only on their own consumption but on consumption by others as well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Selling overseas is a cultural as well as an economic phenomenon , and it is to the important area of cultural influences in overseas markets that we now turn . |
| 15 | interesting as well as a er edible lunch er we 're very pleased now to start away the afternoon session and I 'm particularly pleased to be able to introduce Patricia Routledge , she 's an actress with so many parts in so many media that I 'm not going to make any further introduction , but merely to ask her to come up and speak to us . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There is , here , a philosophical as well as an anthropological point . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is cited as the very type of contemporary fortification , the last fling of the traditional style before the onset of serious and effective artillery changed the rules of defensive building ; and it makes today a magnificent as well as an instructive ruin . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was a very confused as well as a very angry man as he pushed open the doors of Briant 's unit , and hurried down the corridor toward the office . |
| 23 | He was sufficiently like Ernie to be a twin , but Wycliffe had the impression that he was younger as well as a good deal fitter . |
| 24 | It seems that the nine-month gestation period has a psychological as well as a physical reality in human life . |
| 25 | It is at this point that the nation state begins to acquire a psychological as well as a purely administrative significance . |
| 26 | Positions -65 and -72 are part of an inverted as well as a direct repeat ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There was no denying that the new corset had an impressive effect on her waist , but the dress disconcerted her — the first true evening dress she had ever had — because it left her shoulders quite bare as well as a considerable amount of — of , well , upper bosom , and all her arms . |
| 30 | Hostages are a useful as well as a time-honoured gesture of mutual trust . |