Example sentences of "and [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures . |
| 2 | During that time he worked with wool blending as Teasing Foreman and latterly as assistant to the Raw Materials ' Manager in the Warehouse office . |
| 3 | The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings . |
| 4 | In the fifth hour of play , Karpov was reduced to shuffling his king to and fro as Short steadily improved his position . |
| 5 | A spinner with a great ( or walking ) wheel could perhaps work here , space being required for the spinner to walk to and fro as she worked , though the height of the canopy would be a determining factor . |
| 6 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 7 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 8 | Dowd 's head thrashed to and fro as this indignity was visited upon him , only once raising his gaze to stare accusingly at Godolphin , who was too busy about this undoing to return the look . |
| 9 | When a white bar is moved to and fro as shown to the left , the neuron responds only when it is nearly vertical , and only for one direction of movement ( from Hubel 1988 : see Further Reading ) . |
| 10 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 11 | Gaining the tar-sweated hill with my mother 's lean legs pumping swiftly , the willowy sight of streaky high dunes on the horizon awaited us , waving to and fro as they did , sheltering an occasional beige box of a house , a modern cube . |
| 12 | Although there were no elections at the assembly , the gathering was dominated by the issue of who would succeed Mahathir Mohamed as UMNO president and thereby as Prime Minister . |
| 13 | The job of the buyers is to assess the health needs of people in their area and then see that those needs are met as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 14 | Naturally the physical bases that are the cause of defective sight remain unchanged ; measured visual acuity is unlikely to be improved , but children can be positively helped to pay attention to visual stimuli , and can be given motivating visual tasks in optimum conditions that help them to enjoy the experience of using their vision as fully and effectively as possible . |
| 15 | But it is possible — and equally convincing — to argue precisely the reverse : that the most advanced companies recognise the value of the strategic use of consultants generally — including headhunters — in running a business as efficiently and effectively as possible . |
| 16 | In general , DCSLs attempt to complete the proposal and book selection phases in Minor schools as quickly and effectively as possible , in the knowledge that similar processes in their Major schools are likely to be more lengthy , complex and demanding of staff time and resources . |
| 17 | The efficiency of biological effluent treatment depends purely on whether or not the bugs do their job properly , digesting as much carbon material as quickly and effectively as possible . |
| 18 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 19 | The night before , and through the morning into the afternoon , the Wolverines had rampaged from level to level , always moving as quickly and confusingly as they could . |
| 20 | ‘ The large number of non-farming visitors to the show gives an opportunity to show how research scientists are helping farmers protect the environment and avoid pollution as well as producing food as efficiently and economically as possible , ’ said WBPS spokeswoman Pat Twigg . |
| 21 | pondering the absence on Raasay of deer , hares and rabbits , and expanding to discuss beasts of prey , he begins to give a picture of a small island community in the eighteenth century as comprehensively and economically as any reader could desire . |
| 22 | ‘ Si arrangia , ’ says the Neapolitan , living precariously and unofficially as car-park attendant , porter , vendor , labourer , pimp , pick-pocket on his city 's chaotic streets . |
| 23 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 24 | It will rarely be as convenient , and rarely as cheap ( see table 6.2 ) , as private transport . |
| 25 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 26 | Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ . |
| 27 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
| 28 | Following government policy on market testing , and so as to ensure that the MOD operates within the agreed financial and manpower budgets , some catering facilities on RAF units have been transferred to contract catering operations . |
| 29 | And so as not to hurt anyone inadvertently uncle Eugenio waited until the apostle was some way from the rest of the crowd . |
| 30 | In fact I 'm going to comment on every aspect and section of the mag , and so as the trend goes : |