Example sentences of "well as [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1974 , visiting the northern region of the Maramureş , one of the districts richest in the everyday survival of peasant customs and dress , Ceauşescu told a group of folk-artists that adhering to traditions was one way of developing a communist country : ‘ I appreciate … these true works of popular art as an expression of your commitment to maintain the dress and customs of [ your ] ancestors , as well as to weave them tightly with that which is new , … because only in this way will we build a strong socialist society . ’ |
| 2 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Volvo built its Kalmar car assembly plant to enable the company to recruit Swedish workers in the first place , as well as to retain them ( Gyllenhammer , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | The temptation was that the churches ' social work , begun as a way to win the unchurched as well as to help them physically , would cease being the means and instead become the end . |
| 6 | This was a time of real communion , and it was not long before his parishioners began to think of him , as well as to address him , as Father Brendan rather than as Father McGiff , and he began to look on them as his family , and on Cork , their city , as his only home . |