Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [subord] well as " in BNC.

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1 The hut had been cared for inside as well as out and it was being used .
2 But there is at least some chance of cooperation , in contrast to the absence of an obligation to plan together between higher education , sixth forms in secondary schools and colleges of further as well as tertiary education .
3 Censorship will continue to threaten Britain 's lesbian and gay communities from within as well as from without .
4 But ‘ contestation ’ — the calling into question of authority — came from within as well as without .
5 The feat was marked by a drain bursting under the pitch soon after play began and flooding one of the run-ups ; inevitably , the umpire concerned was ‘ Dickie ’ Bird , famed for his wariness about the weather , and now having to contend with water coming from below as well as above .
6 But as the Queen made clear at the Guildhall , if the family is to answer its critics it needs understanding from without as well as obedience from within .
7 Volk & Welt is likely soon to be seeking investors , from abroad as well as Germany .
8 I 'm gon na put a mousetrap in there as well as my er kitchen drawer .
9 The new low aspect ratio keels have been specially designed to give the maximum lift to windward as well as allowing the boat to creep into shallow lagoons and creeks where she can dry out without any difficulty thus opening up previously unexplored regions throughout the world .
10 By the usual measures of third-world misery — infant mortality , unsafe water , calorie intake , illiteracy — Thais live at least as well as , if not better than , people in other countries with Thailand 's GNP per person of about $1,000 .
11 I had also proved to myself that I could play football at least as well as the other boys , if not better .
12 The whole operation sounds too neat to be true — but it seems to be working at least as well as other last-ditch cancer treatments .
13 The group discussions showed that Asians tended to be well informed about credit — at least as well as white people generally — and to have no real difficulties in using it .
14 Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did .
15 Properly discounting the three notorious rescue cases , we can cite its performance along with the Spanish , American , French and Italian examples as evidence to bear out the theoretical expectation that industrial co-operatives should perform at least as well as conventionally organised businesses ; and that the extra that Co-operation has to offer as an ingredient necessary to full success , a potential in motivation , is indeed available to help industrial co-operatives out-perform conventional businesses .
16 This psychology must have served capitalism at least as well as a desire for the things of the market .
17 Some teams have made great progress : if well organised they can screen diabetic patients at least as well as outpatient clinics .
18 Under experimental conditions , old people in NHS nursing homes may do at least as well as those in traditional geriatric wards , but the same can not be assumed of units removed from the traditions and surveillance of a health or social services hierarchy .
19 He had played that part well , certainly at least as well as the actor who was to take over from him .
20 Most of the research which has been undertaken indicates that , with regard to final degree performance , mature students with non-traditional qualifications perform at least as well as traditionally qualified students with whom they have been compared .
21 c Degree Performance — Most research has indicated that non-traditionally qualified students perform at least as well as , and in some cases considerably better than , traditionally qualified students when degree performance ( measured by percentages achieving ‘ good ’ degrees ) is considered .
22 However it can be argued , on the basis of the evidence reviewed above , that admissions tutors can offer places to many categories of non-traditionally qualified students , confident that they will perform at least as well as and often better than the traditionally qualified students , particularly those with only average or below average qualifications .
23 However those who survive the first year perform at least as well as traditional students and in some cases slightly better .
24 The working hypothesis examined here was the proposition that NSEs would perform at least as well as standard entrants ( SEs ) In this part of the study the authors considered AEs both as part of the NSE category and as a separate group .
25 He refers in passing to several studies ( Walker ; 1975 , Smithers and Griffin ; 1986A and Smithers and Robinson ; 1989 ) which show that older entrants even those with non-standard qualifications perform at least as well as their younger counterparts .
26 Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has since tried to compensate for the ill-favoured move with assurances that the new bodies would have the resources to perform at least as well as the old NCC .
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