Example sentences of "[adv] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact you never really train a war boar , you just learn to hang on better while the creature goes crazy , goring and stamping , twisting and biting , and generally causing as much damage as it can . |
| 2 | And I broke it off , I thought I 've got a I 've got that clip that old piece , the other piece put it on better and underneath it there was a a hyacinth , and with it being sheltered |
| 3 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 4 | I have seen cross-breed exotic Goldfish that are cute , but rarely better than the original parents . |
| 5 | The ultimate strength of capitalist global hegemony is that it continually works , and works very hard , to persuade people that the system is natural , fair and fundamentally better than any realistic alternative . |
| 6 | Half an hour later , she felt a little better although she had n't decided what to do . |
| 7 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 8 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 9 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 11 | She does it a little better than most , that 's all . |
| 12 | There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training . |
| 13 | We can do a little better than ‘ chance ’ . |
| 14 | Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 . |
| 15 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 16 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 17 | When we begin to take the law into our own hands we become little better than those individuals who vandalise our homes and mug old ladies . |
| 18 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 19 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 20 | Thirty-nine per cent of men rate their sexual performance as ‘ average ’ ; 29% say they do n't know ; 17% think it 's a little better than most . |
| 21 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 22 | A coin dealer later offered me £100.00 for my find , which he described as ‘ a common type in a little better than F-grade . ’ |
| 23 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 24 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 25 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 26 | This means that a 50MHz 486 performs only a little better than a 16MHz 286 if you are only doing simple word-processing . |
| 27 | ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’ |
| 28 | How dare you , miss , turn the Feathers into little better than a bawdy-house ? |
| 29 | ‘ I thank you , Mr Aycliffe , ’ Theda said drily , ‘ but I know him a little better than that ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |