Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Then he served on several Government committees of enquiry or review as well as engaging in a little more political manoeuvring than had been his habit .
2 Section 15 extended the law to include situations where he obtained possession or control as well as ownership .
3 To start with , WorldSource will simply enable a multinational to call its offices abroad more easily by eliminating technical disparities that arise when more than one carrier is needed to complete a call .
4 Most Libyan policemen lived at home , were members of the community they served , and hence were subject to conventional pressures of tribe and lineage as well as those professional ones of the force .
5 It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them .
6 Apple is expected to provide its desktop manager , window manager , Finder QuickTime , QuickDraw GX , TrueType and WorldScript as well as AppleShare , Data Access Language ( DAL ) and AppleSearch as well as access to AppleTalk and the Apple Open Collaborative Environment .
7 The shape or general appearance of many plants gives rise to numerous names which have appeal to the senses of sight and smell as well as the imagination .
8 They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate .
9 Whilst recognising that specialist homes may become " dumping grounds " she sees a positive role for such homes ( Norman , 1987 ) , which as centres of excellence , provide information and support as well as care .
10 First flown in 1935 , this most widely used ten-seat Canadian bushplane was flown by the RCMP , RCAF , USAAF and USN as well as civilian operators .
11 The tale of La Sylphide gave him an opportunity to exploit her expressive arms and face as well as her ability to dance sur les pointes .
12 Bear in mind you 've got all the information there you know what what you are what yourselves and remember that just because these are the scores you got today that does n't mean that is what you are , it means they are probably the leanings that you 've got at the moment .
13 They are known by letters for which we have provided suitable mnemonics : ‘ A ’ ( the Accounting Committee ) deals with Budget and Finance as well as Trade and External Relations ; ‘ B ’ ( the Blazing Committee ) deals with energy and technology as well as transport ; ‘ C ’ ( the Caring Committee ) scrutinizes consumer and social affairs ; ‘ D ’ ( the Digging Committee ) is responsible for agriculture ; ‘ F ’ , the Environmental Committee is named the ‘ Friends of the Earth ’ ; Sub-Committee E ( Law and Institutions ) is traditionally chaired by a Law Lord — formerly by Lord Oliver of Aylmerton and now by Lord Slynn of Hadley — and is known as the Legal Eagles Committee .
14 ICL Plc has adopted Gresham Telecomputing Plc 's ISAM-XA Resource Manager for ISAM files , which is compliant with X/Open Co Ltd 's XA interface : it has been integrated with ICL 's version of the Tuxedo transaction processing monitor ; the product recognises instructions from Encina and TopEnd as well as Tuxedo so that the different transaction managers can collaborate .
15 Thermo-Fixing Spray is activated by heat , either from a hair dryer or heated rollers , and contains non-sticky polymers to give volume and control as well as condition and shine .
16 For example , employers and teachers keep registers of attendance and prescribe as well as supervise the activities of their employees/pupils , that is , restriction by intent .
17 The garden thus supports a dense stand of vegetation ; but it is not a wilderness , neither is it over-run with pests , and it provides a supply of flowers and produce as well as space for relaxation .
18 He even had the amplitude to take a glass of port with Mr Joseph Robinson and talk as well as listen to him about the Battle of the Nile .
19 I can see nothing in democratic thinking which allows us to think of " the people " as anything other than the whole body of citizens , minorities as well as majorities , those who oppose and dissent as well as those who belong to the dominant majority .
20 Pat 's job had already brought her into contact with the problems people face when they retire and feel that just because they 've stopped working , they 've dropped out of society .
21 Between 1795 and 1799 she learned Spanish , German , Arabic , Persian , Greek , Latin , Hebrew , some Syriac , and Erse as well as music , mathematics , and astronomy .
22 ‘ Today , information technology must be conceived of broadly to encompass the information that businesses create and use as well as the wide spectrum of increasingly convergent and linked technologies that process the information . ’
23 By the end of the nineteenth century the Guernsey was described as native to Alderney , Sark and Herm as well as Guernsey and was still kept pure by restrictions on imports .
24 The standard equipment includes anti-lock brakes , electric windows , mirrors and sunroof as well as a good sound system to help justify the price of just under £21,000 on the road .
25 There was Flopsy and Mopsy and Cottontail as well as Peter .
26 It might also assist in work share and offset because perhaps if things were getting out of balance on Eurofighter you could actually use the tornado pruject , project and get a greater balance .
27 The instrument was produced by several manufacturers 30 years ago , Gibson , Burns and Hagstrom as well as Fender , and all were tuned one octave lower than a guitar ( EADGBE ) , with the major third interval between the second and third strings to maintain guitar fingering .
28 were they not rebelling against this sort of commercialization that they saw going on in erm and think that well if we can , you know , if we can somehow stop this commercialization perhaps then er , then
29 So it is with me , stuck with gloves and stick as soon as I step out of the front door .
30 But he shrugs and says : ‘ We just do our best and prepare as well as possible for each game as it comes .
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