Example sentences of "well as [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recognise that it may also be tinged with a note of bias , for I passionately believe with the project organisers that school and community are parallel and co-operative agencies in the education of young children , and that to establish understanding , as well as to promote real creativity , children should begin reading and learning in the language they speak at home . |
| 2 | Universities can now apply for funds to found postgraduate departments as well as to create academic research institutes linking universities with the industrial and business world . |
| 3 | The state bureaucracy , it was claimed , could be reduced to save money and time , as well as to allow direct contact between the Party and the people . |
| 4 | Deprived of prey , the tiger naturally encroached on farm land to feed on the deer attracted by the crops as well as to kill domestic stock . |
| 5 | A Medau Group was formed in Sidcup and met monthly in members ' houses for discussions , as well as to enjoy social and fund-raising activities . |
| 6 | A democratic society needs people who have the linguistic abilities which will enable them to discuss , evaluate and make sense of what they are told , as well as to take effective action on the basis of their understanding . |
| 7 | The Kingman Report emphasised the need for such abilities when it stated : ‘ A democratic society needs people who have the linguistic abilities which will enable them to discuss , evaluate and make sense of what they are told , as well as to take effective action on the basis of their understanding … |
| 8 | The move came , he said , as part of an effort to reduce the USA 's defence costs as well as to ease global tensions in the light of improving relations with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 9 | British fascism was to contain extremes from both political right and left as well as to incorporate large numbers with no previous political background . |
| 10 | EPCC is an interdisciplinary centre , with people from backgrounds such as computer science , physics and engineering coming together to aid in the dissemination of this new technology , as well as to perform fundamental research into the correct way to build and use parallel computers . |
| 11 | In Italy , where tougher immigration legislation laws had been approved in 1990 [ see p. 37507-08 ] , the government sought to repatriate thousands of Albanian refugees during 1991 as well as to provide economic assistance to Albania to reduce the influx [ see p. 38105-06 ; 38400 ] . |
| 12 | Additional social workers were employed using the MISG in Barnet ‘ to assist the introduction of the care programme approach for people leaving hospital ’ as well as to provide other services . |
| 13 | In selecting the two period styles most notoriously prone to camp life-style confections and pastiches , Steven Parissien sets out to educate through entertainment as well as to provide sound practical advice . |
| 14 | Funding would also be provided for programmes to familiarize senior black leaders with British institutions of democratic government as well as to assist those involved in the signing of the peace accord . |
| 15 | The JCS were already on record that the US should assume ‘ positive and proper leadership ’ among the Western powers in Southeast Asia in order , as they put it , with no excessive modesty , ‘ to retrieve the losses resulting from previous mistakes on the part of the British and the French , as well as to preclude such mistakes in the future . ’ |
| 16 | The religious work centred on evangelism : George Cadbury supported ‘ Free Church parishes ’ in order better to coordinate as well as to encourage evangelistic effort . |
| 17 | It is in each individual 's interest to defend its place in the ‘ peck order ’ vigorously , as well as to challenge those higher up — hence the almost continual challenging that goes on in goat society . |
| 18 | These users want access to tools to extend the spatial database as well as to make spatial analyses . |
| 19 | All assets or groups of assets will be judged according to two new financial tests , based on return on average capital employed ( ROACE ) and capital expenditure cover — that is , the ability to pay a dividend to the shareholder as well as to make enough to re-invest in the business . |
| 20 | It should give the country the capability to design and build the next generation of Australian communications satellites as well as to win lucrative overseas contracts . |
| 21 | While denying the importance of industrial training as the ‘ principal ’ remedy for unemployment , he looked to technical education to raise the general level of skill ‘ from which men start ’ , as well as to divert juvenile labour ( which he described as ‘ adaptable ’ ) into new and growing trades . |
| 22 | In Germany a large working class had to fight simultaneously to achieve or maintain trade union and economic rights , as well as to secure full citizenship and political rights . |
| 23 | Babysave is suitable for babies from three months on and is endorsed by the Portia Trust , a charity which was specially set up to prevent baby-snatching as well as to advise any distraught parent whose child has tragically been snatched . |
| 24 | Because of the potential importance of the association , as well as to overcome methodological limitations of the original study , we analysed data from a prospective study that allowed us to assess the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 25 | In most cases I was allowed to read the case file as well as to observe solicitor-client encounters and to attend court . |
| 26 | They are well placed to see the changes of behaviour that may indicate abuse , as well as to observe any physical evidence . |
| 27 | The Financial Services Act of 1986 aimed to fulfil this need , as well as to abolish some of the inconsistencies which had crept into the existing regulatory system for the financial services industry . |
| 28 | It 's quite nice because the people at the classes come to hear the music as well as to keep fit . |
| 29 | This is for your own safely as well as to protect other people 's property . |
| 30 | The House proved willing to amend or reject legislation put before it as well as to remove individual ministers and on the occasion the government itself . |