Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures .
2 The head is still the leader and acts as chief executive from the viewpoint of governors — partly being told what to do , partly being expected to put forward alternatives of policy and plans for action , partly being used as their principal adviser and partly as the intermediary and negotiator with the other parties .
3 One of the most Greek , and most beautiful , is the so-called hawk-priestess ( fig. 27 ) , the handle of a wand topped with a hawk ; the religion as well as the art of Ephesian Artemis was deeply impregnated with oriental elements .
4 The recognition lag Effective economic management would require the authorities to take action as soon as a disturbance occurs which is judged to have an adverse impact on the desired combination of macroeconomic objectives .
5 Both mechanisms — that due to the clock and that due to the environment — are required by a living organism , and our previous discussion of the roles of the environment , as an external cause of a rhythm as well as a Zeitgeber giving time-cues to adjust the body clock , shows how intimate their combination is under normal circumstances .
6 He understood that there must be an overall rhythm as well as the phrase rhythms of particular leitmotifs and dances if dancers were to understand and feel properly Fokine 's choreographic design .
7 Training starts with a horse as soon as a rider is introduced onto his back .
8 He is to take our swiftest horse as well as a fresh mount .
9 He also promised to change the sheets and rushes at least once every six weeks , provide stabling for my horse as well as a meal at morning and night for myself .
10 Our Chairman was a master printer , older than I was but an extremely good-looking man , so that my excitement had a sexual side as well as a political one .
11 You do not have to climb too high to earn yourself splendid views over the country on the French side as well as a close-up sight of raptors perched or circling amongst the rocks .
12 This affects the visual side as well as the writing of campaigns .
13 Having graduated from a BBC machine to a PC I have found your magazine the best for me because I like the practical side as well as the computing .
14 being er chopped off along the side as well as the leg .
15 In formulating its market timing recommendations , IES applies rules and inductive reasoning as well as the combined expertise of professionals .
16 Deee-Lite is for the bedroom as well as the dance-floor .
17 But in our bedroom as well as the hall .
18 However , like the transfer pricing initiative , this proposal could be attractive to the Clinton administration for its ‘ tax fairness ’ hue as well as the potential for raising substantial revenue from a non-voting constituency .
19 Such securities have been issued by the British government since 1981 and enable investors to maintain the value of their investment as well as the real rate of return .
20 But they 're going to say , if they 're talking to Liz , presumably the trainer as well as a person , you know , what
21 Obviously , a child returning from school to find his own study quarters where he has books at his disposal and sympathetic parents who can offer cogent remarks on his work and broaden his outlook with lively , stimulating conversation , will be able to get more out of education than a child who , when doing his homework , has to share the kitchen table with plates , cutlery and cruet as well as the pet cat and having to contend with ‘ Crossroads ’ as the main intellectual challenge of the evening .
22 In this way , the word ‘ ordinary ’ , much used by John and others , contained a wish for the future as well as a simple description of their own selves , their tastes , their conventional senses of fun and their lack of wealth .
23 Mr Asari hopes his musical may do something to open blinkered Japanese eyes , to the future as well as the past .
24 The streamlining of the leadership also involved the establishment of precise chains of command as well as a standing evaluations commission to measure performance against resolutions and mandates .
25 Writing in 1947 , Hogg ( later Lord Hailsham ) , presenting the Conservative Party case against the reforms introduced by the Labour government , felt that the rate of income tax ‘ has become a potent cause of social harm as well as a source of revenue ’ .
26 Heseltine , in contrast , would have been obliged to seek his own mandate as soon as the Gulf war ended .
27 When challenged , he said he was ‘ surprised to learn it was a club as well as a lavatory ’ .
28 The union , and that means the general committee elected by the club as well as the professional staff appointed by the committee , are working for the benefit of everyone involved in the game in Wales .
29 The Telegraph group , a group in direct competition with both The Times and the Guardian , has also announced a modernization programme as well as a 50% cut in staff in the composing section .
30 The French nuclear programme as well as the other elements in the French energy system have been affected by the economic recession of the past four years and by the more recent fall in oil prices .
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