Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have we not the right to fear for our homeland as well as to fight and die for it ? ’ |
| 2 | All assets or groups of assets will be judged according to two new financial tests , based on return on average capital employed ( ROACE ) and capital expenditure cover — that is , the ability to pay a dividend to the shareholder as well as to make enough to re-invest in the business . |
| 3 | In most cases I was allowed to read the case file as well as to observe solicitor-client encounters and to attend court . |
| 4 | Babysave is suitable for babies from three months on and is endorsed by the Portia Trust , a charity which was specially set up to prevent baby-snatching as well as to advise any distraught parent whose child has tragically been snatched . |
| 5 | No longer Deputy Chairman , she was now , officially , Design Director , to be concerned with the artistic philosophy of the group as well as to oversee the development of the new product collections . |
| 6 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 7 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 8 | It can come as a shock to have to buy every stamp , tube of toothpaste or bar of soap as well as to wash and press favourite clothes before going out , and to change and launder their own bed linen . |
| 9 | No one showed himself more resourceful in circumnavigating clerical consciences and objections or more resolute in extracting from them his needs ; even force — used tactfully — was employed to ease conscience as well as to produce cash . |
| 10 | As such , they had a duty to enter each ale-house on a Saturday night as well as to ensure that Sunday was treated by townsfolk with due sobriety . |
| 11 | The answer is fast , focused , relevant information ; information that enables senior executives to formulate and review strategy as well as to monitor performance . |
| 12 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 13 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 14 | Funding would also be provided for programmes to familiarize senior black leaders with British institutions of democratic government as well as to assist those involved in the signing of the peace accord . |
| 15 | Hidden behind a shrine-like structure are two touch-screen video programmes , designed to introduce visitors to Korean daily life as well as to provide background information on the more important exhibits . |
| 16 | It 's quite nice because the people at the classes come to hear the music as well as to keep fit . |
| 17 | According to Margaret Ribble ( 1943 ) , indeed , for the newborn baby ‘ the need for contact with the mother is urgent in order to keep the reflex mechanisms connected with breathing in operation as well as to bring the sensory nervous system into functional activity ’ . |
| 18 | Alfred was an occasional visitor to his kinsman Doniert and stayed with him at Liskeard to hunt the red deer and wild boar as well as to visit St. Gueryr , a friend of St. Neot skilled in healing , Alfred not being a well man . |
| 19 | During 1990-91 Mongolia continued to expand contacts with the industrialized world as well as to develop its relationship with China . |
| 20 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 21 | These users want access to tools to extend the spatial database as well as to make spatial analyses . |
| 22 | A few examples of recent projects undertaken in different parts of the country may help to illustrate the innovative nature of much of the Trust 's work , and the care that is taken to respect the integrity and character of each property as well as to enhance the benefit that each one can offer to the nation . |
| 23 | The aim was to establish ongoing ways of working and of involving parents in evaluation as well as to make the nursery experience as good as possible . |
| 24 | The aim was to establish ongoing ways of working and of involving parents in evaluation as well as to make the nursery experience as good as possible . |
| 25 | In selecting the two period styles most notoriously prone to camp life-style confections and pastiches , Steven Parissien sets out to educate through entertainment as well as to provide sound practical advice . |
| 26 | It means that energy is required to overcome the friction as well as to move forward . |
| 27 | The authorities had intended to encourage an ‘ early to bed , early to rise ’ regime as well as to save electricity , which is always in short supply in China . |