Example sentences of "[conj] well as [adj] man " in BNC.

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1 Najibullah refused to identify the opposition leaders he had met , but it was believed that they included the leading National Islamic Front ( NIF ) moderate Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani and Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , the president of the Pakistan-based Afghan Interim Government ( AIG — see p. 36449 ) , as well as two men linked with ex-king Mohammad Zahir Shah , namely his close confidant and former Prime Minister Mohammad Yusuf and the ex-king 's son-in-law , Gen. Abdul Wali Khan .
2 As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units .
3 He 's a practical as well as hungry man .
4 Mr Annan 's idea is that these planners — civilians as well as military men — should not remain on their bottoms in New York but should be sent off to the field to implement the operations they planned .
5 The poor representation of working-class women as well as working-class men among psychologists suggests this is not true .
6 Women writers of the period as well as sympathetic men argued for better education as a means of improving the lot of women .
7 Goblin tribes often include huge caravans of scrap metal , captured monsters in crude wooden cages , as well as captive men , Elves and Dwarfs .
8 She could knock a nail in as well as any man , she said , and at once proceeded to do so .
9 Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done .
10 She baulked at commitments , over money as well as over men .
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