Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 The new chairman of BAIE Scotland , Rosemary Wake , wants members in the region to get to know each other better , for professional as well as social reasons .
2 In the majority of schools RE is , for political as well as pragmatic reasons , there by sufferance — occupying time which most teachers would quite happily see spent on something else of more pressing importance .
3 Klein suggests that ‘ The process of splitting off parts of the self and projecting them into objects are thus of vital importance for normal as well as for abnormal object relations .
4 The 1983 and 1987 general elections were interesting for psephological as well as for political reasons .
5 It welcomed the " Slessor talks " ( which had begun in 1951 ) as a model for non-military as well as defence issues — evidently hoping that greater frankness in informal meetings would satisfy British aspirations .
6 Above all , for emotional as well as for factual awareness , others have the weight of numbers on their side .
7 ‘ Well , I enjoyed it , so thank you anyway , ’ she responded stoutly , clinging to the door-handle for emotional as well as physical support .
8 I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't
9 If we want to support the United Nations in its role and in the reorganisations that we have suggested , it is essential that we vote the means for that as well as talking about it .
10 So that they 're not having to find money for that as well as their ticket they get it sort of all in one price .
11 It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues , and for dispute resolution .
12 ‘ That means that for economic as well as for political reasons , we need to make certain that our power to influence Europe 's future is as great as can be , ’ he said .
13 In addition , for economic as well as morale-building reasons , he has to do well in the county championships .
14 The authority w ill have details about this as well as the Tenants Exchange Scheme , which operates between local authorities in different parts of the country .
15 It is thought that biology is the richest source of ideas for scientific as well as poetic creativity .
16 Various groups act as social as well as literal gatekeepers to the rewards which rural England has to offer , and visitors are allowed through only on a selective basis .
17 ‘ Highly Conservative in politics , they are also High Churchmen ’ ; their sectarian spirit focused on Clarkson because , although a churchman , he had been an apologist for Quakerism and in earlier days as an enthusiast for civil as well as religious liberty ‘ he belonged to a very liberal class ’ and showed support for the French Revolution .
18 In Italy , where tougher immigration legislation laws had been approved in 1990 [ see p. 37507-08 ] , the government sought to repatriate thousands of Albanian refugees during 1991 as well as to provide economic assistance to Albania to reduce the influx [ see p. 38105-06 ; 38400 ] .
19 The 1951 Act also provides for personal as well as corporate liability .
20 This is an area of economic as well as political controversy .
21 This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united .
22 Now that the Federal Republic has vanished , François Mitterrand 's efforts to lock Germany into a system of political as well as economic interdependencies seems the only secure way to stabilise Western Europe .
23 Crucially , the close lines of influence and power drawn between the political and industrial wings of the city 's labour movement meant that in Sheffield the task of the new committee was one of political as well as economic regeneration .
24 Priests are using the mosque , synagogue , gurdwara , temple , and evangelical church to edge themselves into positions of political as well as spiritual leadership , defining the community 's agenda and power structure , and negotiating with the state for resources .
25 An appreciation of strong as well as subtle contrast is important , however : the brilliant effects of the predominantly geometric mosaics at Silchester , Hants. , or the famous millefiori effects at the neck and around the bodies of canthari ( e.g. Neal 1981 , no. 16 ) are notable .
26 The reading of English poetry would be accompanied by a consideration of historical as well as current theories of poetry .
27 Dawson 's 1932 book , The Making of Europe , drew his work into a more specifically European context , emphasizing classical tradition , the importance of tribal as well as urban culture , and the significance of asceticism , particularly as shown by the desert saints .
28 Try to assess the general state of repair — look for signs of damp as well as cracks in walls and ceilings .
29 He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer .
30 It is therefore likely that the issues discussed in this section are of theoretical as well as purely methodological importance .
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