Example sentences of "[adv] as his [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a wonderful combination of talents : Langan created the legendary ambience , Caine supplied the celebrity customers and Shepherd won critical acclaim for his unpretentious menu featuring black pudding with apples and bangers and mash — as well as his ability to sell up to 700 outstanding meals a day . |
| 2 | George and Marie agreed that George should take most of the responsibility for the Brasserie , which they felt needed his talent for hospitality to build up a clientele , as well as his ability to train staff and foster good employee relations . |
| 3 | There are radical implications in these challenges , and Marshal Ogarkov 's departure in 1984 , as well as his return to favour in 1985 , may not be unrelated to his keen awareness of them . |
| 4 | She is God 's creative energy as well as His power to destroy and at the same time she is His saving grace . |
| 5 | A historian remembers the mid-'70s , as well as his struggles to complete a biography of President James Buchanan . |
| 6 | It is his job as well as his misfortune to seek to reduce to writing concepts and ideas fashioned and implanted by somebody else . |
| 7 | Yet the Tutor 's capitulation to Natalia reveals her power over every man she meets as well as his failure to withstand her wiles . |
| 8 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 9 | For example , in a tropical country shoes may still be made in the open air by a craftsman who uses his feet as well as his hands to hold and manipulate materials . |