Example sentences of "[v-ing] as well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 2 | Marie originally did most of the cooking , and subsequently continued to supervise menu planning and food purchasing as well as handling the accounting aspects . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 4 | He was dying as well as the man at the airport . |
| 5 | As so often with convergent evolution , the differences are revealing as well as the similarities . |
| 6 | One of Dublin 's funniest comedians Carl McDermott will be appearing as well as Scotland 's answer to Paul Daniels — Kevin Kopfstein , a magician/ comic . |
| 7 | The Voces Quartet , consisting of four professors from the conservatory in Iaşi ( Moldavia ) , is a most accomplished ensemble whose playing shows understanding as well as outstanding technical assurance : the rather edgy 1980 recording does not flatter it , but its quality is nevertheless evident . |
| 8 | And we saw in 1.2 and again in 5.4 that the strongest sceptical arguments attack understanding as well as knowledge . |
| 9 | Local centre events were often challenging as well as rewarding and perhaps none more so than South Cumbria 's ‘ Operation Isolate ’ . |
| 10 | This form of acquired dyslexia is sometimes called pure alexia or alexia without agraphia , the reason being that , as a rule , these patients have no impairment of writing or spelling , and so they contrast with patients having other kinds of acquired dyslexia , all of whom have had impaired writing and spelling as well as impaired reading . |
| 11 | According to the estate this is running at around £30,000 per annum and in addition to this , a survey that would take into account climbing as well as safety interests would cost a further £10,500 . |
| 12 | Eliza is portrayed as the most emotionally-balanced member of her family : she is loving as well as reasonable ( hence the original title of the book — ‘ Love and Reason ’ ) . |
| 13 | Although Hoccleve believes in the sacrament he has no wish to prove dark theological matters ( or , probably , to enter on a long psychoanalysis , which , though free , will mean listening as well as talking ) . |
| 14 | It would be encouraging to believe that he was capable of listening as well as jeering . |
| 15 | This fashion for walking was tiring as well as tedious and his leg troubled him . |
| 16 | Neville Cardus gained a devoted following for his lyrical cricket writing as well as his musical reviews for the Manchester Guardian between the wars . |
| 17 | Adult literacy campaigns aim to improve writing as well as reading . |
| 18 | Our recommendations for the National Curriculum emphasise the importance of drafting , the process of writing as well as the final product . |
| 19 | This is not a criticism of the theories in themselves , but if discourse analysis is to incorporate them , and to demonstrate their relevance to the language learner , it will need to test their value in interpreting language which has actually occurred ; to select what is relevant from context rather than invent a few elements of it ; to account for writing as well as speech , and to account for discourse where there is no constant feedback from the receiver who may not even be present . |
| 20 | This newspaper contains many helpful hints on job seeking as well as lots of varied and interesting job vacancies . |
| 21 | The cases below demonstrate that adverse possession usually concerns either existing landowners who gradually add a bit on to their gardens ( " boundary cases " ) or city homeless ( the " threat to law and order " cases ) who resort to squatting as necessary for living as well as , perhaps , for ideological reasons . |
| 22 | In addition , there is the cost of accidents and fires resulting from smoking as well as cleaning and maintenance costs . |
| 23 | Bitterness was enduring as well as destructive . |
| 24 | Platinum support covers mission critical systems , guarantees 99% server uptime , on-site technical reviews , coaching , training as well as extended traditional support . |
| 25 | Platinum support covers mission critical systems , guarantees 99% server uptime , on-site technical reviews , coaching , training as well as extended traditional support . |
| 26 | He was lipreading as well as listening . |
| 27 | Part of an international organisation , with assets of £3.47 billion , the company also has interests in newspapers and publishing as well as travel . |
| 28 | Marcus was with him , his second sense acting as well as ever , warning him of any storm-troopers . |
| 29 | We wanted a jump meeting as well as a flat meeting to demonstrate there is a demand for Sunday racing in this country . |
| 30 | The security force undertakes passenger searching as well as controlling access between airside and landside . |