Example sentences of "to [noun pl] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The widespread use of pesticides , notably insecticides , in modem farming has probably also affected the food supply available to birds as well as sometimes causing widespread deaths among them .
2 By the middle of the seventeenth century references in inventories to parlours as well as hall and chambers were commonplace , and by 1700 a wide variety of rooms were being listed .
3 Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches .
4 If a class is to lay plans there must be a strategist who assesses the circumstances , evaluates possible outcomes and decides what to do ; and while these properties can be attributed to groups as well as individuals , an agent ( what Poulantzas would call a subject ) is needed in both cases .
5 NEVER appear with animals or children , says the showbiz adage , but it might have been addressed to clergymen as well as actors .
6 We also had an Agricultural Orga Horticultural Organiser erm with experimental plots and he went round to schools as well and er
7 But it is in their generalized role as the preventers and headers-off of criminality that they give the greatest value to schools as well as to young people and their families .
8 Reference will be made to manufacturers as well as to auctioneers who also have liabilities ( and rights ) distinct from those of the seller or buyer .
9 The Rawtenstall store is the first of the supermarket chain 's English stores to get Cashline , and to celebrate the occasion staff from the town 's branch handed out carrier bags and keyrings to shoppers as well as answering account enquiries .
10 We will also offer additional financial support to branches as soon as funds allow .
11 The railway now gone , the trail is open to walkers as well as horse riders and cyclists .
12 Does he recognise , for example , that insisting on veterinary reports may cause problems in that the examinations may cause distress to animals as well as additional cost to the farmer , who may not be compensated ?
13 Its high technology appeals to parents as well as children , and it was relatively cheap to build .
14 Mr Berlusconi is indebted to bankers as well as to politicians .
15 ‘ Modern research is increasingly demonstrating the close dependence of soils and landforms , and a new discipline ‘ soil geomorphology ’ or pedogeomorphology as proposed by Conacher and Dalrymple ( 1977 ) seems to be emerging , incorporating traditional approaches to soils as well as modern soil engineering . ’
16 Durkheim wrote that , ‘ there is something impersonal in us because there is something social in all of us , and since social life embraces at once both representations and practices , this impersonality naturally extends to ideas as well as to acts . ’
17 Fluorite occurs in oreshoots within major veins up to 20km long and 10m wide , and also in stratabound replacement orebodies ( flats ) adjacent to veins as well as numerous minor veins ( Greenwood and Smith , 1977 ) .
18 But Longlands College in Middlesbrough has come up with a unique qualification , a BTEC Diploma in Business , Finance and Distribution , aimed at 16 to 19-year-olds as well as adults looking for a change in their career .
19 Mike Waterlane 's their only decent player , and he 'll go to pieces as soon as his father turns up . ’
20 Together , the savings banks control 27% of the country 's deposits , lending to businesses as well as to individuals .
21 Previous studies have examined the content of referral letters from general practitioners to consultants as well as the requirements of consultants .
22 A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups .
23 Impartiality can be irritating to viewers as well as to governments — though much less so to viewers .
24 pedestrians who are crossing the road in which you are turning when entering or emerging from property bordering on a road , give way to pedestrians as well as the traffic on the road , remember pavements are for people , not for motor cycles motor vehicles
25 ( 1991 ) have analysed various industrial policy measures that may achieve these ends , including direct and indirect subsidies to producers as well as standard protectionist measures such as tariffs , quotas , and non-tariff barriers .
26 Logically they apply to tenants as well as to owner-occupiers and are given for all displacements , whether by compulsory purchase or any action under the Housing Acts .
27 He listened to critics as well as to flatterers ( no court is complete without them ) , and was able to learn from them .
28 The audience was happy , they accepted my portrayal and they were moved to tears as well as laughter .
29 this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in …
30 A trade union education that is — as some have rightly advocated — open to members as well as representatives , broad-based and educational rather than narrow and role-specific , continuing and recurrent rather than ad hoc and disparate , will itself produce limited and ephemeral results unless working people can see that what they learn is also practised in their own organisations .
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