Example sentences of "well as [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
| 2 | The Modern Art Fund , first founded in 1989 , provides essential financial support for museums and galleries in the purchasing of 20th century contemporary art , as well as aiming to stimulate a greater interest in modern art in Britain . |
| 3 | As well as aiming to achieve greater efficiency in manufacturing , the capital investment programme is targeted towards greater flexibility in product planning and processing . |
| 4 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 5 | Laczko and Phillipson do not suggest following the course taken by the United States and introducing an Age Discrimination in Employment Act , but they are convinced that it is important to press for legislation as well as seeking to improve the attitudes of employers . |
| 6 | In other denominations , as well as seeking to meet the social needs of those who are disadvantaged , there have been experiments with weekly joint services with the Asian community . |
| 7 | The white boys admire the cheek of the black lad who nicks their Kentucky'n'chips , as well as wanting to beat him up for it , just as many of them secretly envy and try to emulate the black street style which at another level they experience as so invasive . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Catham is apparently introducing him around because Mr Massingham , as well as wanting to meet all heads of department , wanted to see where every departmental office is situated . ’ |
| 9 | The social standing of deaf people may also have in no small way been aided by the Princess of Wales ( later Queen Alexandra ) who was stone deaf and who used fingerspelling as well as lipreading to communicate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As well as trying to solve members ' problems and holding workshops , the society also takes part in various festivals around the country . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The procedure is to spend a few hours ( as much as you feel you need ) studying the NZ Visual Flight Guide ( an officially-produced , loose-leaf sort of Flyer VFR Organiser or Pooley 's Guide equivalent ) and getting to know the various local vagaries of VFR , as well as learning to read an interpret the New Zealand half-million charts . |
| 22 | Her two year old is the youngest of nine children , and as well as struggling to bring up her own family she 's set up a health project in her community . |
| 23 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 24 | He had taken part in the search that morning for a while , talked to some of the children from the school , as well as helping to organize the house-to-house . |
| 25 | This would be good in itself as well as helping to decrease sexism in mathematics classroom materials . |
| 26 | As well as helping to save the rainforests , you 'll also be helping the environment close to home . |
| 27 | In India he developed his work among students , and founded the first Christian hostel for students at the University of Poona , as well as helping to build the ashram at Poona . |
| 28 | Calcium helps strengthen growing bones and teeth as well as helping to keep them healthy . |
| 29 | When considering the long-term effects of the social debate on evacuation , therefore , we must recognise that , as well as helping to construct an ideological climate favourable to welfare legislation , it also boosted a conservative , behaviouristic analysis of poverty that viewed the root cause of the children 's condition as family failure , poor parenting and general social inadequacy . |
| 30 | If you are in arrears they can tell you the best way of tackling the problem as well as helping to work out your budget . |