Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme , the pure choice end of the spectrum , are explicit statements of choice , preference , approval , or disapproval : which party people think is best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , or for the unemployed ; their evaluations of how well each party has handled issues like unemployment , inflation , defence , health , education , and social services ; how warm they feel towards parties and their leaders ; whether the parties should change their leaders or their policies , or both ; and , last but not least , voting preferences . |
| 2 | They may instead become increasingly determined to gain access to a school in a nearby LEA with a ‘ better class ’ of pupil , irrespective of how well that school is doing for its intake . |
| 3 | ‘ a management tool comprising a systematic , documented , periodic and objective evaluation of how well environmental organisation , management and equipment are performing with the aim of helping to safeguard the environment by : ( i ) facilitating management control of environmental practices ; and ( ii ) assessing compliance with company policies , which would include meeting regulatory requirements ’ . |
| 4 | It is now open to the public as a prize example of how well organic farming can function . |
| 5 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 6 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 7 | Of course , the real crux of the matter is the question of how well people are able to balance against one another several different sets of figures relating to credit cost . |
| 8 | We have little idea of how well other old people cope without the help of the formal sector , though it is not unreasonable to suppose that many struggle in a considerable degree of discomfort and risk . |
| 9 | Assessment would be no more than a subjective judgement of how well the student could perform specific DTP tasks . |
| 10 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |
| 11 | This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts . |
| 12 | On the other hand , a study of how well deprived children fare as parents 20 or 30 years later would require not only individual interviews but careful measures of parental competence . |
| 13 | The idea is to compare a store 's performance not just with its historical record , but with some more objective measure of how well it should be doing . |
| 14 | An estimate of how well the non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is conserved has been made by applying an exact fivefold rotation for a given atom and determining the r.m.s.d. from the observed positions . |
| 15 | The survival of the 1947 constitution without major change since the US occupation ended , is taken as evidence of how well it fits with the attitudes and expectations of contemporary Japan . |
| 16 | If the skirting is painted in a different colour to the walls , do n't forget to stick a smaller sample of the skirting colour next to the wall colour so you have an idea of how well they work together . |
| 17 | The mean percentage correct cloze score ( i.e. , the percentage of deleted words correctly replaced by the reader ) appeared to give an indication of how well a passage was understood . |
| 18 | For much of our time we used to churn out local boy stories , happy accounts , accompanied by beaming faces , of how well the young soldiers were getting on far away from home . |
| 19 | The secret of survival and success at college can be very largely defined in terms of how well you organize your time . |
| 20 | Items in the tests are not selected on the basis of how well they discriminate among students , i.e. they are not norm-referenced . |
| 21 | If you ca n't hear me at the back because my voice drops from time to time then shout away because I 'm not always aware of how well it carries . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe that the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organisation brings out the great energies and talents of its people . |
| 23 | Smith 's application of Smelser 's model is forced to rely on an assortment of different examples and there is little sense of how well it applies to separate case studies . |
| 24 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |
| 25 | ( This is not , of course , a direct measure of how well the passage had been understood and , as we will see later , subsequent experiments have used more sophisticated measures of recall . ) |
| 26 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 27 | Since returns are still anticipated from most of the remaining 15 courses , the response rate has to be regarded as a preliminary indication of how well the survey worked using course organisers as distributors and collectors . |
| 28 | It was a measure of how well they had done that he even considered such an awful thing . |
| 29 | This seems to be effectively true in practice , and the success of a charge-based calculation is a reflection of how well the actual differences in charge are reproduced [ 2 ] . |
| 30 | Benchmark tests are commonly used to give the reader some idea of how well a PC performs — is it fast , slow , or average , is its video performance up to scratch , what sort of speed does the hard disk go at , and that kind of thing . |