Example sentences of "[adj] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have no effect at all on Aline , who could add two and two faster and get the sum right better than any girl I knew . |
| 2 | When faced with one ‘ old boy type ’ executive' who on meeting her with a view to beginning an assignment declared that there was no place for women in his business , she announced that as he was obviously only looking for someone just like himself , he could do that better than she could . |
| 3 | ‘ You know the answer to that better than I do , ’ replied Rohmer . |
| 4 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 5 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 6 | The Germans do this better than most : Frankfurt airport has a synthetic studded floor which is now widely imitated . |
| 7 | She managed this better than I did , presumably having had practice and certainly having the advantage of knowing in advance that she stuck out about eighteen inches in front of where she ought to have been . |
| 8 | No-one knows this better than Ingres . |
| 9 | You have the privilege of having found a lovely woman , privileged and — you know this better than I do unique . |
| 10 | Old industrial buildings can often do this better than purpose-built ‘ museum ’ architecture because they are closer to the conditions in which work is made today . |
| 11 | If Masklin were here , she thought , he 'd do this better than me . |
| 12 | Children , remarkably , often understand this better than many adults . |
| 13 | ‘ Is n't this better than champagne ? |
| 14 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 15 | I remember this well for I have never seen the like since . |
| 16 | Ake ( 1985 , p.175 ) puts this well when he suggests that indigenization may have ‘ reinforced the division of labour between the Nigerian bourgeoisie ( as specialists in maintaining the political conditions of accumulation ) and foreign capital ( as specialists in production ) ’ . |
| 17 | We 'll , we 'll move it into a position where , you know , maybe we can bring the Sid , Sid on this well as well and say |
| 18 | They are the unfortunate primitives or fools : we know much better than that ! |
| 19 | Children after the age of 2 are often so keen to prove their own independence and ability that they feel they know much better than their parents and so argue or ignore parents ' normal requests . |
| 20 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |
| 21 | Well to be honest well if he he |
| 22 | With Wallace H. Carothers 's nylon ( 1935 ) already promising well if it could be commercialized , Whinfield looked to other classes of polymer , which could be made to yield a textile fibre . |
| 23 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 24 | Consequently share option schemes are a thousand better than profit-sharing schemes . |
| 25 | Another sixteen well or a Sierra with a bigger engine but then it 's getting more expensive is n't it ? |
| 26 | If you have a ham stand , all well and good , otherwise invert a large plate and stand the ham on that ; it will raise the meat sufficiently to allow your carving knife to travel as required during slicing . |
| 27 | We wish them all well and speedy recoveries — both mentally and physically . |
| 28 | If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer . |
| 29 | So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’ |
| 30 | All well and good until he extends his ideas to the god Uranus , which he enthusiastically does . |