Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [conj] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Pyridinoline ( also known as hydroxylysyl pyridinoline ) and deoxypyrolidine ( also known as lysyl-proline ) are not further metabolised , thus providing a better index of resorption than hydroxyproline , which also has the disadvantage that it is found in skin as well as bone .
2 In oral as well as in literate culture , it would appear that there are techniques whereby the directness and immediacy of everyday experience are contrasted with the holding of traditions over time , and with the ‘ fixing ’ and ratifying of definitions and meanings .
3 Thereafter it appears that Haycock himself rather than his father was the main architect member of the firm , although , in partnership with his brother Robert , he continued to engage in building as well as architecture until c .1845 , after which he practised as an architect only .
4 Platelet activating factor , lyso platelet activating factor , and alkyl acyl glycerophosphocholine were found in patients with acute Crohn 's disease and in remission as well as in controls .
5 The Greens want regional self-reliance , in agriculture as well as in other things ; a land tax applied so that ‘ in general terms , the nearer the land is to its natural state , the lower the land tax would be ’ ; energy efficiency ; population reduction through encouragement and education ( with 15–20 million the target for Britain ) ; and a sharing of ‘ the abundance which nature can provide for us all if the greedy do not take more than their fair share ’ .
6 So , perhaps those explanations might account for declining er , relative share in agriculture as well as the increasing share of manufactured goods , because the other side of that coin is , well , income elasticities of demand for agricultural goods is less than unity so there 's a de declining sector aspect there , erm , is it easy to differentiate agricultural products ?
7 The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's .
8 Jones , the county 's junior team captain , said : ‘ Cheshire officials were delighted with the way the boys played in technique as well as team spirit .
9 Jones , the county 's junior team captain , said : ‘ Cheshire officials were delighted with the way the boys played in technique as well as team spirit .
10 Vigorous and undiplomatic language was no stranger to a seaman , but from Plimsoll Wilson also learned how to approach and tackle both the law and its promotion in parliament as well as the pamphleteering which preceded change .
11 We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics .
12 The sections you choose need to make sense when viewed in isolation as well as yielding the kind of work you want to generate in the class .
13 The hospital 's 24-hour casualty and emergency service is also back in action as well as all out-patient clinics .
14 In practice as well as in theory , Thatcherism is in the process of being abandoned .
15 Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that the out-of-date nuclear systems that we are withdrawing from Europe have ensured that Europe is a very much safer place , and that the minimum deterrence that we are planning with Trident should be supported by hon. Members on both sides of the House , in practice as well as in theory ?
16 In Russia most of all the making of foreign policy had been , throughout the nineteenth century , the exclusive personal prerogative of the ruler , in practice as well as theory .
17 A qualified teacher will have undergone a three-year course consisting of twenty hours a week in college as well as home study .
18 With the advent of colour , the existing difficulty of matching light levels was further complicated by the additional problems of matching colours in saturation as well as in hue .
19 But a balance has to be kept , and it is important that the quality of the carer 's life is borne in mind as well as the quality of life for the one who is being cared for .
20 A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh .
21 Do remember that , contrary to the cynics ' view of built-in obsolescence , most major appliances — refrigerators , stoves , dishwashers and so on — are built to last for years , so , as far as possible , you should keep future changes of circumstances in mind as well as your present needs .
22 If one is seriously to provide catechesis for those handicapped in mind as well as body , one has to think through the implications .
23 well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself
24 However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose .
25 Each account is naturally biased towards the native language of the linguist in question as well as other languages with which s/he may be familiar .
26 The deal has already transformed its corporate profile ( Staley now contributes a third of group profits ) and made the group the largest sweetener manufacturer in the world , with a raw material base in corn as well as in cane and beet sugar .
27 Resorts that are glorious in mid-summer can be bleak and damp in winter as well as pretty dull when the tourist season is over .
28 In short , this could mean that even more UV light will hot the earth 's surface — in winter as well as summer — increasing the risk of skin cancer , sun rashes and premature skin ageing .
29 Putting his Minnehaha Minstrels experience to good use , Tiller trained them to play banjos and mandolins , and to sing in harmony as well as high kick .
30 The reasons for this demand , mainly confined to developed nations where there is a large disposable income and significant holiday entitlements , have been discussed in detail by Boniface and Cooper ( 1987 ) and Pearce ( 1987 ) and are related to improvements in transport as well as financial considerations .
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