Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his view policy-makers in London and Washington ( and in due course in Paris as well ) began to react in similar fashion to the problems of Europe and to the conduct of the USSR . |
| 2 | The proposals were reported to have offered the MNR a privileged status , allowing it to start political activities within Mozambique as soon as a ceasefire had been concluded , but requiring it to recognize the Mozambican Constitution . |
| 3 | This award will , I trust , help dispel the old perception of Rentokil as merely a woodworm and pest control company , and to help to give it the recognition it deserves — for what it is today — a major multi-national company with a broad base of services of wide-ranging benefits ’ . |
| 4 | In January 1990 the UN Security Council agreed to extend the mandate for a further two months of the detachment of 40 officers from 10 countries making up the UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( UNGOMAP ) , created to monitor the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as well as other aspects of the Geneva Accords of 1988 . |
| 5 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 6 | It is important not to regard the development of social policy in Britain as simply involving two dramatic jumps forward in the periods 1906–11 and 1944–9 . |
| 7 | The conflict with Argentina in 1982 had brought the islands to the forefront of public awareness in Britain as never before . |
| 8 | With the establishment of parish boundaries and other rights , these were increasingly closely defined ; one of the most common medieval records for Sussex as elsewhere is that recording a tithe dispute either between different clergy or priest and laity . |
| 9 | This means you win a free subscription to MKM as well as £5 so the postman will be braving the weather for you in the coming year . |
| 10 | Particularly tough tour games are expected against Wellington and Canterbury , and outlining the itinerary Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , thanked New Zealand for managing to fit the tour into a domestic schedule which also includes a 13-match visit by Australia as well as Romania . |
| 11 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
| 12 | For the first time , BAT 's financial services operation , which embraces Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar in Britain as well as Farmers in America , made more money than the tobacco business . |
| 13 | As the material became more readily available it was used to meet the needs of the increasingly consumer-oriented cities of China as well as contributing to the export of finished objects . |
| 14 | We have made it clear for a long period that we believe that devolution or independence would damage very severely the degree of inward investment into Scotland and the degree of self-generating investment within Scotland as well . |
| 15 | Both these latter points , though Macdonald does not connect them , appear to lend some force to the arguments of Edinburgh employers that by the end of the century , they were not so much drawing extra work to Edinburgh as desperately trying to stem an inexorable decline of the Edinburgh trade , occasioned both by its geographical distance from London ( incurring freight costs and inconvenience , which would have affected bookbinding equally ) and by its comparatively high rents and cost of living ( as compared to country towns like Frome ) . |
| 16 | And th , think they 're having a real problem in Birmingham as well the they 're , trying to get rid of them and they 're down the sewers all the time trying to get rid of the bloody things ! |
| 17 | Instead the two countries asserted that ‘ the creation of military bases in Somalia by the United States administration poses a direct and serious threat to Ethiopia as well as to the peace and security of the countries in that region ’ . |
| 18 | Miloš was himself a rich man , with large estates in Wallachia as well as his Serbian lands . |
| 19 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 20 | Medicine , a respected and lucrative profession in Germany as elsewhere , is the discipline that is most oversubscribed , and medical academics are forced to take on far more students than they feel they can reasonably teach . |
| 21 | The band also play European dates in Europe as well as joining The Farm , The La 's and the Boo Radleys in Paris . |
| 22 | The band also play European dates in Europe as well as joining The Farm , The La 's and the Boo Radleys in Paris . |
| 23 | However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere . |
| 24 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 25 | One day I 'll tell Stuart about the flowers and what I did with them and I expect we 'll have a good laugh with Oliver as well . |
| 26 | This has also produced very distinctive geographical concentrations of black communities in Britain as well as specific locations within the urban conurbations where they have settled . |
| 27 | The Ryúkyús were an autonomous kingdom , but during the Tokugawa period their king had paid regular tribute to China as well as trading with the lord of Satsuma domain in southern Kyushu , who treated the Ryúkyúan king as a vassal . |
| 28 | It might even drift towards a Scandinavian-style peripheral role in Nato as well as distancing itself from the EEC . |
| 29 | In the last few years there has been a strong demand from Germany as well , but on the whole it has been a home breed rather than a traveller . |
| 30 | Security of employment is not as uncommon in the West as the stereotypical contrast with Japan implies , but what is more noticeable is the extension of security to blue-collar labour in Japan as well as white-collar employees . |