Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [conj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides being a way of life , with a related set of moral values , war also had a strongly material side for the noble class , and could provide an income as well as an occupation . |
| 2 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 3 | The ‘ ideal ’ 100% inversion , where all data items are keys and therefore all items are contained in an index as well as a data record , will be very inefficient in many respects . |
| 4 | Bridget Freemantle was probably a well-read woman and must have had an intellectual as well as personal influence over Mary Leapor . |
| 5 | Certainly the teacher of language would do well to keep informed of progress and discussions in these fields , and the efforts of linguists and psychologists to approach the problems of language teaching from a principled point of view are extremely worthwhile , from an intellectual as well as a social point of view . |
| 6 | Lévi-Strauss has shown , further , that the classification of the natural world amongst South American Indian tribes is as complex and as interesting as those of the academic biologist , at an intellectual as well as a utilitarian level ( 1966 ) . |
| 7 | For example , and may have an effect as soon as the noun phrase it appears in is encountered , and the effect may be counteracted by what is suggested in a later part of the sentence . |
| 8 | These trends reflect , in part , the changing role and importance of the family as an institution as well as the changing position of women . |
| 9 | I 'd piss on an ancestor as soon as trace one . |
| 10 | She sent Jimmy off on an errand as soon as she got in , then sat down and wrote out her notice . |
| 11 | For Kylie , however , there was no looking back , and the future for now meant more work with SAW in London where she was to record an album as soon as her Neighbours commitments allowed . |
| 12 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 13 | If , following Wallston , an attitude study includes an interview as well as a questionnaire , the interview will not achieve equal importance . |
| 14 | Well , he was a real man , a real general man , he drove fast cars and flew an aeroplane as well as being a fine musician . |
| 15 | He is 30 and an optician as well as a professional National Hunt jockey . |
| 16 | The temple is a structure specifically designed to house an icon as well as the mental images that are sought to be evoked in its presence . |
| 17 | The Tour is always an epic as well as a bike race . |
| 18 | I have had to be an accountant as well as a football manager . ’ |
| 19 | It suggests an initial vetting of proposed accounting arrangements by an accountant , six-monthly checks of client accounts and a requirement for solicitors to send each five-weekly account reconciliation statement to an accountant as soon as it is produced . |
| 20 | The Guardian disclosed in July that the Ministry of Agriculture secretly agreed to an investigation as soon as the US findings were known . |
| 21 | I shall make an announcement as soon as I reach a decision . |
| 22 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 23 | It is hoped that feedback on procedures will be an outcome as well as the identification of future training need . |
| 24 | As soon as a weakness or shortcoming in the system of regulating safety is positively identified the investigators need to inform the regulators where urgent action is necessary ; indeed , it is important that unhampered liaison channels allow the flow of all relevant factual information about an accident as soon as it becomes available . |
| 25 | Whoever designed it intended it to be an eye-catcher as well as a practical building , and it remains a local landmark in the middle of a field , Peyto 's estate having long gone . |
| 26 | Others made you marvel at their cleverness and knowledge : this was an achievement as well as an entertainment . |
| 27 | Michael Morpurgo , speaking as an ex-teacher as well as an author , supported Mr Rosen with a series of vehement statements which reflected a passionate commitment to the independence of teachers to choose books that were right for them and for their pupils . |
| 28 | Although the charts are in no way comprehensive ( essential oils can help a great many more health problems ) they serve as an example as well as a self help guide to the home treatment of a number of common ailments . |
| 29 | By week 3 he was nodding off to sleep in an armchair as soon as he had finished dinner . |
| 30 | I 'm supposed to be cured but now I 'm an addict as well as a failure … . |