Example sentences of "[vb pp] as well [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment .
2 Kossen also says that these characteristics can be learned and developed , thereby suggesting that leaders may be made as well as born .
3 This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility .
4 Needless to say , on recordings which have a substantial musical output below 50Hz — the organ perhaps the prime example — the effect is felt as well as heard since the 103/4 can move a great deal of air .
5 They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future .
6 Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them .
7 Saints who should be seen as well as heard about
8 The saints or ‘ holy ones ’ should be seen as well as heard about .
9 If you want to be seen as well as heard , search out the VZ303 .
10 The earliest authenticated cuckoo was for years a literal early bird seen as well as heard on March 27 , 1936 , in Kent , but one was reportedly heard and seen on March 2 , 1972 , in Berkshire .
11 The house had been cleaned as well as was possible .
12 The vihuela tablatures contained villancicos and romances — with the melody in red figures– as in Luis Milan 's El Maestro ( Valencia , 1535 or 6 ) , so that it could easily be sung as well as played .
13 He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer .
14 Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped .
15 Some are old , familiar ditties with new words , some nice little rhyming couplets , some just plain filthy and some printable here : every little bean must be heard as well as seen .
16 This means that leaks can be pin-pointed as well as identified .
17 There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it .
18 From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores .
19 Dysart nodded , considered the point for a moment then said : ‘ Some might say it was a sign she had n't recovered as well as we 'd hoped . ’
20 His driving apparently is still not all it might be , but his short game and putting are very good and that is where scores are salvaged as well as made .
21 Disability arts , on the other hand , where , for example , sculpture is designed to be touched as well as seen , and songs are written about the world as we see it , can redress the balance and engage a lot of people in questioning assumptions that their exclusion from society is a fact of life .
22 ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’
23 In that sense medicine and disability are inextricably linked , yet the approaches of physicians and surgeons to disabled people are criticised as well as praised .
24 ‘ I will have regard to how vigorous competition with the tunnel can be best assured as well as with how well the current competitive arrangments have operated , ’ he said .
25 I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral .
26 Aonach Mor has rapidly gained popularity and routes are being repeated as well as created .
27 This makes sense : war and politics were perceived by lay participants as subject to supernatural interventions that could be magically invoked as well as interpreted — hence the important role of churchmen and their rituals in these areas of public contestation and conflict , for instance in not just the retrospective presentation but the preliminary " staging " of battles as Judgements of God .
28 ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home .
29 This preference , no doubt imposed by how people are paid as well as induced by their own wishes and experience , would on its own direct some people to the weekly-payment types of credit .
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