Example sentences of "well bring [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Well bring in a picture of him
2 However , these two activites tend to be associated with addictions and personality difficulties in the patient and to require them to give up these things can often be counterproductive , since compliance may well bring on a withdrawal syndrome , and failure can lead to anxiety and guilt .
3 In ‘ The logic of Waco ’ ( April 24th ) you state ‘ If a man has anti-tank weapons , you may as well bring in tanks . ’
4 Noddy 's Playtime is aimed at three to seven year olds , but it might well bring back memories for a few older people too .
5 ‘ Might as well bring out several colours of that cordeeroy , ’ he said .
6 If he had the slightest suspicion of how she really felt , it could well bring out the sympathetic side of his nature .
7 You certainly appear to be experiencing dramatic alterations in the working pattern of your life and the Full Moon on September 5th may well bring about another major change or sizeable upheaval .
8 A mother , after all , does not live in a vacuum , and all sorts of influences — the arrival of another child , new vocational interests , increasing maturity , and so forth — may well bring about subtle yet important changes in her relationship to the child .
9 If the expectation is held strongly then market participant action may well bring about the event that was expected .
10 Being well brought up is often no defence against it .
11 Her gaze lingered on Jazz , but she was too well brought up to let any doubts show .
12 He was a nice , quiet , well brought up lad who would have been welcomed by any girl 's mother as prospective husband material .
13 Nice sensible boys , she thought , well brought up by their mother , hung their clothes up neatly , which made a nice change .
14 ‘ She 's been well brought up , ’ he said .
15 This is the disadvantage of being well brought up .
16 They have been so well brought up , they put the rest of us to shame . ’
17 I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms .
18 Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently .
19 ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , ‘ oh , Havvie , yes , ’ and if , when he kissed her , with the perfect decorum with which a well brought up young peer should treat a single girl — even one who had promised to be his wife — she did not feel quite the surge of passion which she had expected , she put that down to her inexperience , and his tentative handling of her , which would change with time , she knew .
20 The agent was older than her father , but Hyacinth had been well brought up , and at least it was an escape from the national chairman ; prettily she agreed to dance with him .
21 I was too well brought up .
22 Blanche pretends to be so well brought up that she can not go in .
23 The importance of focusing on a manageable instance was well brought out in an American textbook on statistics written many years ago .
24 As is well brought out in a recent paper , the views of Carnap 's which Quine opposed involved the claim that conventionally adopted analytic linguistic frameworks provided criteria of reality , which set up the standards according to which any question that might arise was settlable ( Ricketts 1982 ) .
25 This dimension to progressive thought was well brought out by the school of ‘ New Liberalism ’ which was associated in particular with T. H. Green and L. T. Hobhouse .
26 The speed of change which Professor Hoskins deplored is well brought out here by his remarks about a stopping train through Rutland .
27 It is well brought out in Ephesians 2:14,18 .
28 His elitism is well brought out in his description of the elections of 1705 , where he claimed that " the Principal Gentry , both for Estates and Reputation " , supported the Tory candidates , and " the Refuse and Scum , the Beasts of the People " , supported the Whigs ; he went on to recommend changing the franchise qualification from forty shillings worth of freehold land to " 10 Pounds at least " .
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