Example sentences of "[noun pl] as well as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies .
2 An electronic set of tricks simulates the real life timetable so that the operators receive and send all of the necessary signals as well as operating the appropriate signals .
3 Earlier Frankish successions from the sixth century onwards had divided the heartlands , the patrimony , between royal brothers as well as assigning whatever acquired regna were available : the 806 and 817 projects , by contrast , gave the first-born son the patrimony entire , leaving the younger brothers only acquired regna .
4 Her passenger , let us say , observed that she braked suddenly to avoid some pigeons and then carefully negotiated some roadworks as well as stopping at several sets of traffic lights .
5 The driver was hit a number of times on the head and back , either with fists or with an implement , and suffered injuries to the face and eyes as well as bruising .
6 Hanley scored a hat-trick of tries and Great Britain skipper Schofield kicked five goals as well as having a hand in many of Leeds ' eight touchdowns .
7 The department has well-equipped laboratory facilities and houses the most advanced parallel computers as well as conducting research at national and international institutions .
8 How it kept the roof over their heads as well as helping the community .
9 This was to be the sixth show organised by the Priestfields & Ormesby Knitting Club and this year they were hoping to use the proceeds to boost club funds as well as make a donation to Kirkleatham Special School in Redcar .
10 Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs .
11 But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them .
12 Also , manufacturers have upgraded the specification of diesel cars as well as making greater use of turbo-chargers to improve performance .
13 The Angel Project provides free dental dams as well as offering advice and information for people with drug related problems .
14 Since , however , local authorities were enabled to subsidize established voluntary grammar schools as well as to found their own secondary schools , social divisions in secondary education were reinforced .
15 The third team was put in the charge of Billie Balmer , a former Everton full-back , while Jack Foster , a former Sunderland and Huddersfield centre-forward , was given the running of the reserves as well as acting as scout .
16 It is hoped to develop and refine the approach by examining specific corporate behaviour and relationships as well as to contribute to analysis in these industrial sectors for major and selected minor European and US firms .
17 But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft .
18 So whenever you are shooting action sequences like this one , make use of them as a means of smoothing the flow of the pictures as well as providing additional visual interest .
19 Laptop computers have been acquired for calculation work both in the office and in the field , and the output from our new electro-static colour plotter is impressive , providing many work opportunities as well as enhancing the presentation of our drawings .
20 It might , for example , be helpful to offer several rival designs as well as siting alternatives for public discussion — as well , of course , as offering a " not at all " option .
21 In two cases where he executed designs by Hawksmoor , the Clarendon Building ( 1712–15 ) and the north quadrangle of All Souls ( 1716–35 ) , he had submitted alternative proposals himself ; and at Christ Church library ( 1717–38 ) he acted as Clarke 's architectural amanuensis , drawing out his designs as well as executing them .
22 A learner therefore has to adjust to many different environments as well as learning about a particular specialty .
23 The programme did n't work particularly well , it was pretentious and chaotic , and the audience was so noisy you could n't hear the performers or the presenters , but it did try to get away from conventional gender roles as well as subvert the arts programme format .
24 I believe that continuing to hear the language of books as well as to see it gives developing readers a valuable resource in this domain .
25 Of the extant ‘ megafauna ’ , the smallest of the five living species of rhinoceros , the Sumatran rhinoceros , Dicerorhinus sumatrensis , eats wild mangoes and other fruits as well as browsing many gap species .
26 The first agreement of its kind to be concluded by the CIS with a former Warsaw Pact country , it provided for the sale of real estate belonging to the former Soviet army in Czechoslovakia and for the use of the proceeds to make good the environmental damage done on those sites as well as to pay for the housing of returning soldiers in Russia .
27 Substitute care was seen as supporting parents as well as providing for children 's needs , and practical assistance as preserving the family unit .
28 The two companies assert that the system avoids reading errors as well as avoiding the need to have inspectors tramping round trying to read meters in empty houses whose occupants are all at work .
29 My earnings now had to pay the mortgage and household bills as well as subsidise the café .
30 He introduced VAT on domestic fuel and power bills as well as hiking National Insurance contributions by one per cent to avoid estimated Government borrowings of £50 million next year .
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