Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethanol has a systemic as well as topical action on the gastric parietal cell . |
| 2 | As managing director of Peaks Marine , at Wansford , Cambridgeshire , he has a professional as well as an enthusiast 's interest in the boat business . |
| 3 | Moreover , law has a regulatory as well as a facilitative function in the transformation . |
| 4 | However , it must be remembered that technological innovation has a positive as well as a negative side . |
| 5 | But in English the concept of power has a physical as well as a metaphysical connotation ; thus we talk of " water power " , " steam power " , " electrical power " and so on . |
| 6 | It seems that the nine-month gestation period has a psychological as well as a physical reality in human life . |
| 7 | Smart assumes a prophetic as well as an evangelical mission . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is at this point that the nation state begins to acquire a psychological as well as a purely administrative significance . |
| 10 | The image of the angel with a gun served a secular as well as a religious function by emphasising the lesson that the Church and the Spanish colonial régime were united in their goal to christianize the Indians . |
| 11 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thus , when a doctor asks for an X-ray or path lab test , or prescribes drugs , or decides that a patient should remain in hospital for a further two days , he is making a financial as well as a clinical decision . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Both questions and feedback have a prospective as well as a retrospective function : they enable the child to build on present understanding and to move forward into new areas of learning . |
| 17 | Jurisdiction must involve the power to make a wrong as well as a correct decision . |
| 18 | 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 . |