Example sentences of "a [adj] [subord] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most governments , including that of Britain , have shied away from receiving the Dalai Lama as a political as well as spritual leader . |
| 2 | ‘ Diego Rivera , who became a world-famous fresco painter when he went back to his native Mexico , was 25 when he came to Paris in 1914 , a political as well as an artistic rebel and just the sort of companion Modi enjoyed . |
| 3 | By implying that salvation was the responsibility of the individual , by insisting that the only mediator between God and man was Jesus Christ , Luther had posed a political as well as doctrinal threat to the power of the Catholic clergy . |
| 4 | For Iranians it was always a political as well as religious creed , and way of differentiating themselves from the Arabs . |
| 5 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 6 | It is therefore likely that support for Ælfheah 's cult in London had a political as well as a religious aspect , and so the removal of his relics may indeed have been expected to provoke opposition . |
| 7 | For the de Klerk government it 's a political as well as social problem and controlled black urbanisation is to the white right wing , a vivid example of the evils of political reform and will be a dominant issue in any election or referendum ; but there appears to be no alternative . |
| 8 | As managing director of Peaks Marine , at Wansford , Cambridgeshire , he has a professional as well as an enthusiast 's interest in the boat business . |
| 9 | Selling overseas is a cultural as well as an economic phenomenon , and it is to the important area of cultural influences in overseas markets that we now turn . |
| 10 | Besides being far more satisfactory , it is submitted , from a social as well as a legal-theoretical standpoint , it would provide a framework applicable to all unions . |
| 11 | This principle of self-help , of ‘ harambee ’ when applied at school level , may emphasise local differences , may lead to some difficulties over matters of replacement and repair , but , because it emphasises the community 's participation in the education of its children , must be accounted a social as well as a financial good . |
| 12 | Handbell ringing has potential as a social as well as a musical activity in church . |
| 13 | as the level of average consumption rises , an increasing portion of consumption takes on a social as well as an individual aspect … the satisfaction that individuals derive from goods and services depends in increasing measure not only on their own consumption but on consumption by others as well . |
| 14 | Identifying the specific concrete practice of an occupational group is , of course , a theoretical as well as an empirical task . |
| 15 | However , the Census is a diachronic as well as a synchronic dataset . |
| 16 | Jurisdiction must involve the power to make a wrong as well as a correct decision . |
| 17 | However , I can not get excited by them ( and that applies to the passion they generate in a sexual as well as a moralistic sense ) and would certainly not ever describe them as sublime . |
| 18 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 19 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 20 | But , of course , rabbits are a commercial as well as a sporting crop and on that basis most efforts at containing their numbers are carried out when the bulk of the rabbits are likely to be mature . |
| 21 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 22 | The concept of structure is replaced in Derrida 's writing by the concept of a chain of signification which avoids the dangers implicit in the notion of structure : by being open-ended and non-teleological it does away with any idea of a commanding entity within the system , and by having a temporal as well as a spatial dimension it can not itself be reduced to the status of entity or object . |
| 23 | The pressure is felt on a personal as well as on a macro level . |
| 24 | Measures to promote more flexible forms of retirement — at a range of ages and on a part-time as well as full-time basis — and to outlaw age discriminatory employment and redundancy practices would therefore be an essential part of this strategy . |
| 25 | Ethanol has a systemic as well as topical action on the gastric parietal cell . |
| 26 | And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population . |
| 27 | There is , here , a philosophical as well as an anthropological point . |
| 28 | Some general managers of state radio stations are former NBC men or women accustomed to thinking in a national as well as a local context . |
| 29 | However , the situation in Leeds needs to be looked at in a national as well as in a local context . |
| 30 | However , it is increasingly clear that the scale of this challenge is such that it demands a response from a national as well as local level . |