Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rainey 's YZR meanwhile looked as rideable as ever and he no longer needs to broadside his Dunlops as he did in 1989 . |
| 2 | All forest weavers were relatively unsociable as well as being monogamous and eating insects . |
| 3 | However , this recognition is not in order to freeze into cynical inaction , in the words of John Huddleston , but rather to ensure that our thinking about the future is practical and down-to-earth as well as visionary ( Huddleston , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | From the contemplation of these copies he distilled " the spirit of Greek art " , which became , for him and his successors , not only the characteristic of all Greek art ( poetic as well as visual ) , but also the criterion of aesthetic value judgements in general . |
| 5 | Although crustal collisions may involve intra-oceanic as well as continental-margin island arcs , it is the convergence and eventual collision of continental crust that gives rise to intercontinental collision orogens ( Fig. 3.15 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ An electric sports car whose exciting styling , 80mph top speed and 6secs 0–60mph time prove that battery power can be exciting as well as green ’ |
| 7 | For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud . |
| 8 | The prospect of real freedom after so many years of oppression is exciting as well as daunting . |
| 9 | In some languages , such as Arabic , gender distinctions apply to the second- as well as third-person pronouns . |
| 10 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 11 | Copper had made a completely recovery , he was as sound as ever although a little on the thin side in an attempt to save his legs . |
| 12 | French Basques seem happy to go on being French as well as Basque . |
| 13 | In Belgrade ( the Serbian as well as the federal capital ) tens of thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins held a vigil on Jan. 30-31 outside the Federal Assembly building to demand that the Army be sent into Kosovo and to protest against the stance of the Slovene and Croatian leaderships . |
| 14 | I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite . |
| 15 | Highly entertaining as well as informative . |
| 16 | Mark 's offbeat description of the beautiful French countryside , the heat , the food , was as entertaining as always and then his style changed and the real reason for writing became evident . |
| 17 | I knew there was something wrong as soon as I saw |
| 18 | Jurisdiction must involve the power to make a wrong as well as a correct decision . |
| 19 | ‘ Their origin will , however , become clear as soon as the number of neutrons produced can be increased by increasing currents and temperatures . ’ |
| 20 | No doubt all will come clear as soon as my German gets better . |
| 21 | The first is the normal one that both manager and employees are effort- as well as risk-averse . |
| 22 | Try to assess the general state of repair — look for signs of damp as well as cracks in walls and ceilings . |
| 23 | However , the Census is a diachronic as well as a synchronic dataset . |
| 24 | The gifts offered no doubt included the alms of the faithful as well as bread and wine . |
| 25 | Such arguments show that the instrumental as well as the non-instrumental validations of consent depend on its being freely given . |
| 26 | The reading of English poetry would be accompanied by a consideration of historical as well as current theories of poetry . |
| 27 | The interpretation of the courts advanced in the second chapter of this book accepts many of the arguments put forth by these scholars , but provides a fuller model of judicial behaviour which is historical as well as functional . |
| 28 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 29 | Empirical studies of older cultural institutions , drawing on historical as well as sociological procedures , include Collins ( 1928 ) , Beljame ( 1948 ) , Altick ( 1957 ) , Williams ( 1961 ) and Escarpit ( 1966 ) . |
| 30 | For Warr , however , the issue is historical as well as moral , the reflection of an age-long struggle for rational laws rooted in ‘ a spirit of understanding big with freedom and having a single respect to people 's rights ’ . |