Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Have you no conscience at all about short-changing the poor as well as betraying your election commitments ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unlike a trade association or informal market , an exchange is expected to carry out regulatory as well as trading functions . |
| 13 | Within walking distance are the horseriding stables where lessons are available as well as trekking for more experienced riders . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The analyst proceeds : 'All mothers have to be frustrating as well as loving . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | A beige carpet and soft green walls made the room light and spacious as well as providing a sufficiently neutral background . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Eckstein found that the best educated had access to the most rewarding jobs , ‘ but because such jobs are not expanding as rapidly as schooling , education in itself provides no guaranteed job ’ . |
| 24 | But if workmen are hammering outside your door , if the noise is intermittent and/or high-pitched , if you ca n't switch it off at will , you may find such noise psychologically distressing as well as distracting . |