Example sentences of "be [adj] as [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example the 1989 Report expressed the hope that there would be regional as well as national programming , that committees would be covered , and that there would be a significant amount of live broadcasting . |
| 2 | If it can not , there may be political as well as economic implications to reckon with . |
| 3 | Many of the trends in France , he believes , are equally observable in other European societies , and the price they will all pay will be political as well as cultural . |
| 4 | Withdrawal from conflict can be emotional as well as spatial . |
| 5 | To be unmasked is to be unspirited as well as undone . |
| 6 | ‘ To be acceptable , recycling has to be cost-effective as well as good for the environment , ’ he explains . |
| 7 | The circumstances in which , and the purposes for which , futures transactions may be undertaken should be specified and it should be indicated whether positions may be off-exchange as well as on-exchange . |
| 8 | For the groups that eschew unconventional behaviour — and there may be tactical as well as principled reasons for doing so — the focus and target of pressure is likely to be the people who make the laws and policies and/or the people who implement them . |
| 9 | I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite . |
| 10 | It would be foolish as well as useless , he said , to worry about how to cope with tomorrow when there is quite enough to cope with today . |
| 11 | The management of innovation efforts , particularly in terminating activities that do not make business sense , can be delicate as well as time-consuming — the more so since administrative fiat is not an acceptable solution . |
| 12 | If the players really impress you with their heckling and barracking of the puppets ( and they 'll have to be witty as well as abusive ) , the puppets will eventually break off their performance , perhaps concluding with an important tip about a major location within the dungeons ( if the players did exceptionally well ) . |
| 13 | Over-zealous expansion may be counter-productive as well as burdensome : a good school may cease to be a good school if its classes are overflowing and its playgrounds full of makeshift accommodation . |
| 14 | ‘ You are asking me to be clairvoyant as well as indiscreet . |
| 15 | Above : The splendid weeping willow can be useful as well as decorative ; Pablo , 14 , and Francesca , eight , on the swing . |
| 16 | Researchers bias can be unconscious as well as deliberate . |
| 17 | Before any of them can be significantly claimed to be logical as well as grammatical subjects , and treated as denoting certain objects that exist in their own right rather than merely describing attributes of such objects , or representing something purely fictional , certain additional conditions must be fulfilled . |
| 18 | Fourth , further research would be deductive as well as inductive , employing inferences from previously established generalizations . |
| 19 | I did n't want to see the event ( irony can be heavy-handed as well as ruthless ) . |
| 20 | yet for him such remoteness had to be physical as well as spiritual . |
| 21 | Mr. Major must be blind as well as blinkered if he ca n't see the serious , dangerous and dismal developments which have reached crisis point since MPs went on holiday six weeks ago . |
| 22 | Obviously , it would be shortsighted as well as unfair to suggest that action taking place entirely within the school system is powerful enough to eradicate undesirable gender-based stereotypes . |
| 23 | He appeared to think too much acclaim might be detrimental as well as premature . |
| 24 | This inevitable tension which goes to the heart of the matter and which can be fruitful as well as sterile has been paradoxically heightened by the government 's capping of the advanced further education pool . |
| 25 | As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way . |
| 26 | Yet home-made muffins are nicer and can be savoury as well as sweet . |
| 27 | There is a good choice of extractor fans costing from around £30 ; many can be wall-mounted as well as window-mounted . |
| 28 | They will not be martyrs , for most of them will be astute as well as honest . |
| 29 | And the patents appear to be worthwhile as well as numerous . |
| 30 | The design study notes : ‘ Unfortunately , with only limited geological information available and in the absence of normal site-investigation data , it is prudent to consider construction in what may prove to be adverse as well as favourable conditions , ’ |