Example sentences of "and [noun pl] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 2 | ‘ The most correct thing to do is to hold elections for both president and deputies as soon as possible , so that people can trust somebody , ’ Mr Khasbulatov said . |
| 3 | To be successful the remedy should match the totality of the patient 's symptoms and signs as closely as possible — as demonstrated in the three separate cases of influenza . |
| 4 | ‘ And I 'm eighty-eight , and I object to draughts and crowds as strongly as ever . |
| 5 | Where the reading skill required is that of interpreting such things as labels and road signs , they should pursue the normal targets and programmes as far as possible for their own safety , though they may need help where practicable to interpret these things through other than ordinary visual means . |
| 6 | ‘ A thin man with fierce blazing eyes behind thick glasses , ’ Rebecca West called him in 1945 , ‘ a tiny fuzz of black hair fancifully arranged on his prematurely bald head , and wrists and ankles as straight as lead piping in their emaciation . ’ |
| 7 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 8 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 9 | Shiona scowled into his face with its arrogant high cheekbones , self-satisfied mouth and eyes as hard as sapphires . |
| 10 | If only Messrs Cook could guarantee a benefit to mind and manners as easily as they can guarantee a comfortable journey ! |
| 11 | She returns his toothless smile and waves as graciously as the Queen . |
| 12 | In such ways we learned to care for people 's bodies and homes as well as for their inner spiritual life . |
| 13 | Teachers ' centre wardens ( usually themselves experienced teachers anxious to develop active supportive programmes ) keep in close touch with teachers and schools as well as with local advisers and " the office " , and centre management is frequently run on quasi-democratic lines with a significant element of teacher-participation ( the local authority none the less is responsible for finance ) . |
| 14 | Their learning curve is steep but this means that they will pick up bad habits and evasions as quickly as correct ways of going . |
| 15 | It meant that heads had to discuss with governors and parents as well as with staff precisely how to make use of greater freedom . |
| 16 | His stride was impatient , as if he wanted to pass through the tangled undergrowth and brambles as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | ft. building was erected for the machinists and cutters as well as for garment distribution . |
| 18 | When the British Academy gives scholarships for methodological research and applications as well as for historical inquiries of a more familiar kind , when universities begin to make appointments in humanities computing or , dare I say it , even in history and computing , then , it seems to me , we will be in a better position to bemoan our inability to secure more in the way of government and private funding . |
| 19 | Could it triumph , with its Galileos , Einsteins , Picassos , Beethovens and Aristotles — thinkers and seers of Pacific origin , who will one day come to imprint their views and creations as firmly as did their Mediterranean and Atlantic forebears ? |
| 20 | His life has measured the ups and downs as faithfully as a seismograph . |
| 21 | buy organic fruit , vegetables , cereal products , meat , dairy produce and free range poultry and eggs as often as possible . |
| 22 | It brings them together with research sponsors and customers as well as with business and government economists . |
| 23 | What I would like to see would be language centres for the professions and vocations as well as for export . |
| 24 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 25 | Joseph made it obligatory and made his wife and daughter crunch their way through apples and pears as devoutly as he would grind through grace . |
| 26 | Markets already exist for ‘ Melinar ’ PET in wide-mouth containers for foodstuffs and cosmetics as well as for oven-to-table containers for foodstuffs [ made from thermoformed crystalline , opaque ‘ Melinar ’ foil ] . |
| 27 | Cityscape , Hight Corners , and Terraces , has plenty of examples and demonstrations as well as introduces specific technical considerations and encourages us to look at and study architectural characteristics . |
| 28 | Writers like Defoe were apt to stress the value of manufacturing in bringing extra employment , for women and children as well as for men . |
| 29 | And after the revolution the two strata coalesced to form a ruling class which repressed and exploited workers and peasants as brutally as did the capitalists of the West . |
| 30 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |