Example sentences of "[vb infin] well [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know well if it , there 's gas fire that , well all it means is they 've had it in but the gas is n't connected to the you probably have n't got a boiler .
2 Suburban and rural areas will recruit well but inner cities and council estates are short of volunteers .
3 ‘ Billy told me to use my hook I can hook well as well as jab and found Jason could n't take them . ’
4 What do we already do well that the National Curriculum planners have neglected — remembering that if we think we do something well we need to be able to look closely , give reasons , describe in detail .
5 As Brumfit observes , ‘ Being a good teacher is never exactly the same thing as understanding teaching ; there are many things we can do well that we can not fully understand . ’
6 What did you do well and what were your weaknesses ?
7 if they 've got a job or something they 're frightened they 're not gon na do well and
8 Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each .
9 If you sell farm butter and cheese instead of whole milk you can do well if you have the right market .
10 In addition , the team will do well if the Holy Spirit is manifested through wisdom , knowledge , faith , healing , miracles , discernment of spirits , prophecy , tongues and interpretation ( 1 Corinthians 12 : 8–12 ) .
11 The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’
12 Consequently , as most lecturers will be assessed at both extremes of a general rating scale , any lecturer will do well if he pleases half the audience .
13 Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted .
14 I think they would do well if playing with O'leary or Faircoulgh .
15 Both were loaded with works which , as Heinz Berggruen says , ‘ Did n't do well because they were n't any good ’ .
16 Water lilies do not grow well if water is falling onto their leaves .
17 This is a good species which will grow well provided the illumination is correct .
18 At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care .
19 The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well .
20 Although this set-up can work well as it stands , a useful refinement is to add a means by which the level of the dub can be controlled manually .
21 ‘ The elevators in the main auditorium for scene changing do n't work well and they have to work well .
22 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 . ’ ’
23 This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side !
24 That offer is still open and I think it could work well if people could be bothered .
25 retained direct control of the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ might not work well if the new lines had to be separated administratively from the Corporation system , so they decided to set up a subsidiary company as they had done in other areas .
26 I thought this idea might work well if transposed to pressed flowers .
27 It was felt by the Royal Commission on Police Powers that criminal prosecution and investigation could only work well if the general public felt confident in the role played by the police .
28 But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans .
29 McGregor supported the ideas of Maslow about man 's hierarchy of needs , and suggested that a Theory X approach will work well where man is concerned with his physiological and safety needs .
30 The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram .
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