Example sentences of "as [adv] as try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dancers explain that they have to think about their colleagues when they 're performing as well as trying to give something special to the audience . |
| 2 | Knowing what to choose , assessing one policy against another , weighing up the risk factor as well as trying to estimate what this will mean in terms of your standard of living after you retire could be a bit of a gamble even for a financial expert . |
| 3 | But Joan Fox , head of patient services at Greenbank Hospital said : ‘ As well as trying to look after the psychological and physical care of these long stay elderly patients , we are trying to improve their environment on the wards . |
| 4 | The strains are emotional as much as physical , as the carer tries to keep everyone happy as well as trying to make sure , as far as possible , that no harm befalls the elderly mothers during the hours that they spend on their own . |
| 5 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 6 | As well as trying to avoid the numerous pot-holes along the route , not always successfully , Myeloski was not the most accomplished of drivers , being one of those people who were never quite in tune with their machine . |
| 7 | It has also become apparent that , as well as trying to change teachers ' practices , there must be a determined attempt to make concurrent changes in the school as a whole . |
| 8 | Within the South Wales district the question education can always , as well as trying to help and support carry pe I 've worked in junior churches and many more education churches . |
| 9 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 10 | As well as trying to solve members ' problems and holding workshops , the society also takes part in various festivals around the country . |
| 11 | There was no water-borne sanitation , and every other day Tidey and I had to empty the few sanitary buckets , burying their contents in holes dug in the garden , as well as trying to keep the houses clean and collecting fruit and vegetables . |