Example sentences of "[vb infin] well [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hegemonal class may be more or less ingenious at furthering its political interest while maintaining its position in the power bloc ; the working class may make better or worse use of a revolutionary situation . |
| 2 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |
| 3 | If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species . |
| 4 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 5 | Suburban and rural areas will recruit well but inner cities and council estates are short of volunteers . |
| 6 | Using more than is necessary will not make the plants grow better and might even damage them as well as the rest of the environment . |
| 7 | The new generation of women will do better but that 's not the full answer . |
| 8 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 9 | Yes we can do better and yes we are getting better , but all that 's gon na cost money . |
| 10 | I do n't care how different he is underneath , ’ she cut through Davide 's protests , ‘ how much bluster it is , blusterers make poor husbands , never could make a woman happy for more than five minutes , and anyway , Caterina can do better and I 'll see to it that Rosalba does better too . |
| 11 | I 've got no specific figures or names in mind , but I think there will be a further growth , particularly in the number of people who supply existing credit cards , and that 's important because they may do better and different deals with the retailers over how much they charge for the processing . |
| 12 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 13 | What did you do well and what were your weaknesses ? |
| 14 | if they 've got a job or something they 're frightened they 're not gon na do well and |
| 15 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 16 | Its director , Eric Appleby , said of the plan : ‘ Before such a step is taken pubs must become better and safer places — places suitable for children . ’ |
| 17 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 18 | ‘ The elevators in the main auditorium for scene changing do n't work well and they have to work well . |
| 19 | It 's not that ‘ they 're saying , ‘ We 've got these things that do n't work well and we 'll dump them on unsuspecting countries . ’ ’ |
| 20 | We have a tremendous skill base at doing good due diligence work when all said and done due diligence work is really just a focussed audit approach and if we 've good auditors , we should jolly well and good er new diligence er provides and we to react to new diligence opportunities rather than seek out new diligence opportunities . |
| 21 | He had a choice of two shots and he played the most difficult one — the one that would make his ball stop better and hold . |
| 22 | if you 'd of gone to them for advice and say which is the better buy , which will was wash better and why , you know , I want I want |
| 23 | Some of the textured pavement and warning tiles did not function well and some caused difficulties for the non-handicapped , as when snagging high heels . |
| 24 | I did n't sleep well and … ’ |
| 25 | Hopefully he 'll recover well and be back to normal . |
| 26 | He says as a champion I must perform well and give the public value for money . |
| 27 | That 's , that 's , yeah that 's the special edition which is the one er just , you know , to try and help you sell better and that 's the , that 's the other possibility , the |
| 28 | If India 's government is persuaded that warming will produce better and more reliable monsoons , then it might decide that the interests of its burgeoning population would be better served by global warming than by attempts to hold it in check . |
| 29 | Rachaela knew she could read well but was virtually innumerate . |
| 30 | The original price to subscribers was four guineas unbound , but it did not sell well and was remaindered at 36s. a copy . |