Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] as well as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " King Cotton " spearheaded a new , dynamic but at first narrowly based surge in manufactured goods capable of creating as well as meeting market demand . |
| 2 | They rate their performance as a lot better than average and are particularly interested in giving as well as receiving pleasure . |
| 3 | The inclusion of the former originated less from public concern over any alleged malpractice than from lack of confidence , felt mainly but not wholly within the legal profession , in procedures whereby ultimate responsibility for prosecuting as well as investigating in the vast majority of cases rested with the police . |
| 4 | Pupils do ask questions of truth , do seek to establish moral foundations for their lives , do quest for a spirituality which will assuage their own sense of rootlessness and hunger for meaning as well as teach them how to live compassionately and courageously on our fragile planet . |
| 5 | Beech claims that this aids fast readers skimming for meaning as well as helping learners with new words . |
| 6 | In contrast to the administrative procedures operating before 1986 , the Act authorizes warrants to be granted for preventing as well as detecting crime , thereby compromising the important question of principle identified by Dicey that ‘ preventive measures are inconsistent with the pervading principle of English law , that men are to be interfered with or punished , not because they may or will break the law , but only when they have committed some definite assignable legal offence ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 249 ) . |
| 7 | Nobody , he once remarked , believed him when he said it was an attempt to create a world in which a language agreeable to his own private aesthetic might be made to seem real , and even his childhood seems to have been enlivened by inventing as well as learning remote languages . |