Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Tinniswood and Nobbs understand that comedy can be subtle as well as slapstick ; and Nobbs is still very concerned with his chosen trade . |
| 2 | Your so-called reporter , who thinks Scott Reynolds ca n't sing , must be deaf as well as unbelievably fucking stupid . |
| 3 | Your so-called reporter , who thinks Scott Reynolds ca n't sing , must be deaf as well as unbelievably fucking stupid . |
| 4 | For example the 1989 Report expressed the hope that there would be regional as well as national programming , that committees would be covered , and that there would be a significant amount of live broadcasting . |
| 5 | If it can not , there may be political as well as economic implications to reckon with . |
| 6 | Many of the trends in France , he believes , are equally observable in other European societies , and the price they will all pay will be political as well as cultural . |
| 7 | Withdrawal from conflict can be emotional as well as spatial . |
| 8 | To be unmasked is to be unspirited as well as undone . |
| 9 | ‘ To be acceptable , recycling has to be cost-effective as well as good for the environment , ’ he explains . |
| 10 | The circumstances in which , and the purposes for which , futures transactions may be undertaken should be specified and it should be indicated whether positions may be off-exchange as well as on-exchange . |
| 11 | For the groups that eschew unconventional behaviour — and there may be tactical as well as principled reasons for doing so — the focus and target of pressure is likely to be the people who make the laws and policies and/or the people who implement them . |
| 12 | I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite . |
| 13 | Ieuan Evans , as Scots know to their cost , can be elusive as well as opportunist and quick . |
| 14 | ‘ Hmm , ’ Janice in a tone that suggested that she was really trying to be interested as well as sound it . |
| 15 | ‘ An electric sports car whose exciting styling , 80mph top speed and 6secs 0–60mph time prove that battery power can be exciting as well as green ’ |
| 16 | It would be foolish as well as useless , he said , to worry about how to cope with tomorrow when there is quite enough to cope with today . |
| 17 | The management of innovation efforts , particularly in terminating activities that do not make business sense , can be delicate as well as time-consuming — the more so since administrative fiat is not an acceptable solution . |
| 18 | If the players really impress you with their heckling and barracking of the puppets ( and they 'll have to be witty as well as abusive ) , the puppets will eventually break off their performance , perhaps concluding with an important tip about a major location within the dungeons ( if the players did exceptionally well ) . |
| 19 | Over-zealous expansion may be counter-productive as well as burdensome : a good school may cease to be a good school if its classes are overflowing and its playgrounds full of makeshift accommodation . |
| 20 | ‘ You are asking me to be clairvoyant as well as indiscreet . |
| 21 | But this irony can be playful as well as belittling ; it can be critically constructive as well as destructive . |
| 22 | There is in many societies a strong economic , political and psychic advantage in having male children , so the proposition of preventing any births , precludes that possibility , and those benefits are perceived to be real as soon as the ( male ) child is born . |
| 23 | I 'll be fine as soon as I 've had some breakfast . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll be okay as soon as we 're through the passage . ’ |
| 25 | Above : The splendid weeping willow can be useful as well as decorative ; Pablo , 14 , and Francesca , eight , on the swing . |
| 26 | It was agreed that we should be married as soon as Leslie had completed his parachute training , which was the reason for his being sent home . |
| 27 | We can be married as soon as it may be arranged . |
| 28 | We can be married as soon as you give the word ; as it is , what is Dinah to do ? |
| 29 | I 'd go mad if I had to be tidy as well as everything else . |
| 30 | Researchers bias can be unconscious as well as deliberate . |