Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] well [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The rapid progress of scientific knowledge , he declared , would be ‘ the means under God of extirpating all error and prejudice , and of putting an end to all undue and usurped authority in the business of religion as well as of science . ’
2 Lord Bridge then gave his reasons for acknowledging that the Court of Appeal , of which he had been a member , in De Falco v. Crawley Borough Council was wrong to hold that a challenge to a housing authority 's decision on intentional homelessness could be made by action as well as by judicial review , and continued , at p. 294 :
3 The interactions between calcium , phosphate , fatty acids , and bile acids in the distal small intestine as well as in the colon were studied in detail in the groups with the lowest and the highest concentrations of dietary calcium and phosphate .
4 Reference will be made to manufacturers as well as to auctioneers who also have liabilities ( and rights ) distinct from those of the seller or buyer .
5 Country-wide have 24 guest houses in Britain and operate holidays on the Continent as well as in the UK ( addresses on page 152 ) .
6 England too made a significant contribution to this new Western development and produced four great mystics who quickly attracted a considerable following on the continent as well as in their own country : Richard Rolle of Hampole ( c. 1290–1349 ) , the unknown author of The Cloud of Unknowing , Walter Hilton ( d. 1376 ) and Dame Julian of Norwich ( c. 1342–1416 ) .
7 ‘ A most telling stream of miracles ’ is related , and the King is recorded as having prophesied ‘ the Satanic horror of all those human rebellions against the Crown which were to rise , no longer in the British Isles , but in America and in France from the end of the XVIII century , and to develop on the Continent as well as in Africa and Asia during the XIX and XX centuries ’ .
8 In 1822 he won the competition for rebuilding London Bridge but the result was set aside in favour of the design by John Rennie [ q.v. ] ; and the principal feature of his career , for which he gained notice on the Continent as well as in England , was to be his speciality as a designer of large covered market buildings .
9 His frequent comments on events occurring on the Continent as well as in England show how well informed and absorbed were the lower levels of the ‘ political nation ’ at this period .
10 So eager were the Highlanders to be in action that they charged forward prematurely , to be swept by further fire from the hated artillery as well as by musket shots from the opposing infantry and from a detachment under the 18-year-old [ later Major-General ] James Wolfe , posted on the royal left flank , which took them in enfilade .
11 The two sides , however , were still separated by traditional rivalries extending over several centuries as well as by differing interpretations of Marxism , disputed borders and rivalry in their relations with other countries ; indeed it was perhaps surprising that their earlier association had lasted as long as it did .
12 The Habsburgs , the Wittelsbachs , the Royal Houses of Baden and Württemberg , even the Romanovs , all had direct or tenuous connections with the Bonapartes , while through the descendants of Eugène de Beauharnais they were related to the Royal Houses of Sweden and Portugal as well as to the Emperor of Brazil .
13 The Holy Spirit guides us through discernment as well as by signs .
14 And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence .
15 This practice has the merit of cutting down expense as well as of checking one 's primitive barbaric instincts .
16 Our argument is that this type of politics has a strong basis in instincts and emotion as well as in political economy .
17 Patrick O'Brian 's sardonic Dr Maturin , in conversation with a philosopher deeply interested in the ways of naval life , and perplexed by certain tactics in an engagement just ended , is more obviously explaining , and to O'Brian 's readers as well as to Professor Graham , when he enlarges on the customs of war :
18 Apart from the Sahel-Saharan zone , desertification is a significant problem in China , Southern Africa and Pakistan as well as in many developed nations such as Australia , North America and the USSR ( Fig. 7.1 ) .
19 By May 18 the development ministers of the EC member states agreed that some $5,000,000 of emergency aid would be granted to Somalia , to be channelled through European non-governmental organizations as well as through the UNHCR .
20 Education and social services , for example , were invariably administered from decentralized ‘ area ’ offices as well as from County Hall .
21 And away and above her imagination lie the remote worlds of elegant Petrograd , and of Moscow , the city of the Communist future as well as of her inherited religious past .
22 Therefore , the historian to my mind who is really a lively and stimulating historian is going to be interested in the future as well as in the past .
23 In other species , a proportion of cannibals is present whatever the circumstances , and will prey on minute shrimps and other freshwater animals as well as on their fellow tadpoles .
24 ( It is clear that Burgess in the term ‘ farriery ’ meant to include the treatment of the diseases of farm animals as well as of the horse ) .
25 He added that " at the same time we will send a delegation in the opposite direction , to Kuwait as well as to members of the coalition , the USA and the European Communities " .
26 These forecasts should consider the effects of each option on the revenue as well as on the capital costs of the completed project .
27 James I was determined to restore the Forest system as an important part of his royal prerogative , and as a source of revenue as well as of pleasure in his favourite sport of hunting .
28 Apparently the paint will turn yellow in the dark as well as in daylight ; at the same time it is resistant to any form of solvent , making the restoration almost impossible to reverse without damage to the original .
29 The language used by the ivory and slave traders as well as by European explorers like Burton , Speke , Stanley and Livingstone , it spread along the trade routes : inland from Bagamoyo , Kilwa and Mboamaji to Tabora and then south towards the gap between Takes Tanganyika and Malawi , west to the town of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika , north-west to Karagwe and north to Lake Victoria .
30 The " Paris Club " of creditor countries announced on Oct. 26 , 1989 , that Belgium , France , Italy , Sweden and Switzerland — Guinea-Bissau 's principal creditors — had agreed to recommend an " exceptional reduction " of the country 's debt , saying this was justified both by Guinea-Bissau 's implementation of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) structural adjustment programme as well as by the country 's very low per capita revenue and the burden the debt placed on the economy [ see p. 36331 ] .
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