Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bidault , it has been said , leader of the Resistance in occupied France , may have been unaware how the world outside had changed during the war ; but in any event distrusted Ho as a communist as well as a nationalist threat to France 's post-war international position . |
| 3 | The deliberate attempt to link learning to the design of instruction provided the necessary discipline to treat learning as a practical as well as a theoretical issue . |
| 4 | Most governments , including that of Britain , have shied away from receiving the Dalai Lama as a political as well as spritual leader . |
| 5 | They do this throughout life , not only in courtship , and the penis probably serves as a tactile as well as sexual organ . |
| 6 | The UNTAC human rights chief , Dennis McNamara , described the signing of the covenants as a pragmatic as well as a symbolic act . |
| 7 | Handbell ringing has potential as a social as well as a musical activity in church . |
| 8 | Scrapping of the flyovers seen as a psychological as well as physical barriers to pedestrian movement between Birkenhead 's shopping and business areas is a key objective in revamp plans for the town centre . |
| 9 | Scrapping of the flyovers seen as a psychological as well as physical barriers to pedestrian movement between Birkenhead 's shopping and business areas is a key objective in revamp plans for the town centre . |
| 10 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 11 | She added , ‘ The station should be cancelled now , before it turns into a radioactive as well as an economic catastrophe . ’ |
| 12 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Democracy can exist in a one-party as well as in a plural-party system , ’ he told a summit of five African nations on Monday in the Cape Verde capital , Praia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perform combination techniques on the move so that you are able to work effectively in a retreating as well as an advancing mode . |
| 18 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As we shall see shortly , the Scriptures employ ‘ kosmos ’ in a positive as well as a negative sense . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , the situation in Leeds needs to be looked at in a national as well as in a local context . |
| 23 | The aim of this booklet is to explain to you , if you are at school or in higher education , how becoming an actuary can be the path to a satisfying as well as a financially rewarding career . |
| 24 | To those committed to a relevant as well as a rigorous education , the GCSE is a disappointing anachronism which does n't fit with vocational or pre-vocational criteria exemplified through other contemporary school-based developments for 14–18-year-olds such as TVEI ( Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative ) and CPVE ( Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education ) . |
| 25 | Mme Guérigny brought the Sunday lunch ritual to a close as soon as she had buried M. Guérigny . |
| 26 | In such traditions , when a session is in progress , one or more of the participants may be designated as ‘ guardians ’ , to protect the room or space that is being used , checking on a mental as well as a physical plane that it is not being intruded upon . |
| 27 | Juniper is regarded by many intuitive aromatherapists as having the power to cleanse on a psychic as well as a physical level . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The pressure is felt on a personal as well as on a macro level . |
| 30 | Duncan and Goodwin claim that state institutions are invaluable in the management and organization of the differentiated and spatially variable societies typical of capitalism , and that to be successful such state intervention should take place on a local as well as a national level . |