Example sentences of "as [adv] as [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 THE Government will today fall into line with the European Community 's proposed Social Charter when the right of workers to belong — as well as not to belong — to a trade union is enshrined in its Employment Bill .
2 ‘ George Bush to be the first US President to visit a free Cuba ’ headlines the far-right Miami Diario de las Americas , carrying , on its inside page , details of how to phone Cuba and send over food parcels , as well as where to register your confiscated property for repossession after the regime has gone .
3 During the six weekly get-togethers , open only to pups under 18 weeks old , they and their families learn the basic commands — ‘ come ’ , ‘ sit ’ , ‘ heel ’ and ‘ wait ’ — as well as how to toilettrain , groom and road-walk their dogs .
4 Someone at Templecombe knew where to hide both herself and a scaling ladder in the church , as well as how to use that poor hag ; first to deliver messages and then , as a warning to the rest of us , as a victim . ’
5 In learning what is and is not acceptable to parents , children come to know when and how to harness their feelings and impulses , as well as how to control their bodily functions .
6 For the real enthusiast who wants to know why we cook what we do , as well as how to do it , Paul Levy 's FEAST OF CHRISTMAS ( Kyle Cathie , £9.99 ) is the answer .
7 ‘ They learn how to survive without tents as well as how to put up the issued tents .
8 As well as how to unpick a faded coat or dress and sew it up again inside out , that was one of the things mrs so and so suggested .
9 They will also need to know about lobbying and negotiating and how to work effectively with the bureau management committee as well as how to manage staff meetings .
10 To achieve this , the manager needs a knowledge of the record industry , music publishing , concert promotion , tax and of how to run a business ; as well as how to keep the act 's family happy .
11 Moreover , in 1973 one deputy minister of foreign trade described the deficiencies in Soviet marketing as follows : ‘ While we were only beginning to understand that before entering the marketplace we had to study it , determining which machinery could or could not be supplied where , as well as how to organise the work involved , capitalist firms had already created a whole science to deal with the question , coordinating production , advertising and commercial activity into a single discipline ’ ( N. Smeliakov , Novy mir , 12 ( Dec. ) 1973 , 216–17 ) .
12 The object of mediation or conciliation is to achieve a resolution of the dispute by the parties agreeing on who should have custody and what access rights the other should have , as well as how to make decisions for the up-bringing of the children .
13 The heroes come across as people who lived their lives to the full and knew how to love and laugh as well as how to fight .
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