Example sentences of "[adj] source [prep] [noun] as [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Still being distributed throughout the UK and abroad , Networking International has been a real source of information as well as opening up opportunities for women artists .
2 International football , like the European club scene , is a major source of cash as well as prestige for the Scottish game .
3 Information is increasingly a very marketable product and the advance of information technology gives the library , as a major source of information as well as an important user of information technology , the opportunity to take advantage of the strong current interest , and promote itself as aggressively as the purveyors of the hardware and software .
4 At the same time , however , the child 's status as a child is perhaps more tightly defined through employment legislation , the raising of the school-leaving age ( thus depriving the child of an independent source of income as well as retaining him or her within an institutionalized system of control ) , and the growth of a market geared to particular and distinctive images of childhood and adolescence .
5 To those for whom gas was out of the question , and candles or lamps were expensive luxuries , firelight was often the single source of light as well as heat , as George Eliot notes in Adam Bede : ‘ It was a pretty scene in the red fire-light : for there were no candles ; why should there be , when the fire was so bright , and was reflected from all the pewter and the polished oak ? ’
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