Example sentences of "[adv] well as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’ |
| 2 | Worried people do not concentrate , hear or understand so well as usual . |
| 3 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 4 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 5 | They do n't like it so well as London . |
| 6 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 7 | VISITING LADY : Well , Mistress Pamela , I ca n't say I like you so well as this lady does for I should never care , if you were my servant , to have you and your master in the same house together . |
| 8 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 9 | ‘ No man practises so well as he writes . |
| 10 | Without their dedicated service , the prison would not be run so well as it is . |
| 11 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 12 | It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar . |
| 13 | Everything works so well as it is . |
| 14 | No one can present that point to the King so well as you . |
| 15 | Turkle ( 1984 ) , for example , analyses how computers provide female-as well as male-identified cognitive experiences . |
| 16 | In many of these ( 233 cases ) it turned out that a person was recognized perfectly well as being familiar but the subjects reported a difficulty in recalling other details , such as the person 's name . |
| 17 | Some bisexual relationships work perfectly well as long as everyone knows the score . |
| 18 | Local government has seen the growth of intra-as well as inter-party politics , and has been used by both major parties to promote ‘ radical ’ policies . |
| 19 | This bearish tactic does not work as well as in a stock market , for art works are widely dispersed , and decisions to buy or sell may be thoroughly unpredictable . |
| 20 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 21 | No ’ — he forestalled Cameron 's objection — ‘ you know as well as I do , Angus , the Duke is daft but he is clever , and he has an entry to every house from Atholl to Dunkeld . |
| 22 | When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names . |
| 23 | This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility . |
| 24 | Everything focuses on the fact that he is always struggling with his desire for love and power as well as for an end to all his problems . |
| 25 | The General has frequent contact with Winnie Mandela — and through her indirectly with her husband - as well as with the ANC leadership . |
| 26 | The agreement , reached at a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg , will barely affect BBC and ITV programming but has more sweeping implications for nascent commercial companies as well as for the poorer public channels in southern Europe . |
| 27 | The programme scrupulously refused to attribute full maturity to either faction , dwelling on the bestial acts committed by animal rights terrorists — the Bristol University bombing and so on — as well as on the vile surgical mutilations which had provoked them , and Ian Breach 's presentation script was both deft and literate ; a model guide through these complex issues . |
| 28 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 29 | Decisions about data collection should be determined by the need for an informed society as well as for the concerns of government ; 2 . |
| 30 | He maintains he did not want to shoot her , but that he was angry with her and was also agitated by a huge bar bill , and as well as by being put in a particularly smokey corner of the night club . |