Example sentences of "[adv] well [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only contraception that was on offer ( though sporadically ) was for use by men , whose interests were arguably better served by the birth of another son than by their wives ' good health . |
| 2 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 3 | Now the weaknesses in the American economy , so well hidden by the prosperity of the 1920s , became only too clear . |
| 4 | Given the mobility constraints , is the cooperation of labour not better explained by the fact that employees have little alternative ? |
| 5 | After studying in Vienna with Hummel and with Simon Sechter ( whose other pupils included Schubert , in the last days of his life , and Bruckner , half-way through his ) , Thalberg 's career as one of the leading virtuosi of his days was already well established by the time he moved to Paris . |
| 6 | As women make up over 60 per cent of these categories their position in the labour market is not well represented by the wage structure data . |
| 7 | Such images , it may be surmised , were not well received by the nobility , who continued to commission portraits of conventionally austere appearance . |
| 8 | Mark 's quarterly reports which highlighted the plant problems were not well received by the Chairman — according to his personal staff . |
| 9 | Cycling is easy and cheap in the area and also well served by the railway . |
| 10 | The control of Parliament is perhaps even better illustrated by the fact that few pieces of legislation have been lost in the Commons in the ten years since Mrs Thatcher became prime minister — the Shops Bill comes to mind , but there is talk of its reintroduction in a future session . |
| 11 | In 1627 a settlement was made on Barbados , which had two additional attractions : it was uninhabited , so the dangers of warfare with the Caribs did not arise , and it was so far to the east of the island chain that it was even better protected by the trade winds than any of the other islands . |
| 12 | There is no hard evidence for this opinion — no phenomena have been described that are not equally well explained by the action of selection . |
| 13 | The three diets were isocaloric and equally well accepted by the Sprague-Dawley rats . |
| 14 | Her colour transparencies of the Grand Canyon were particularly well received by the gathering . |
| 15 | Her colour transparencies of the Grand Canyon were particularly well received by the gathering . |
| 16 | Well , the non recurrence of Gulf War in the first half is pretty well balanced by the recession that is taking place at the moment and is er , showing as we all know , little signs of lifting . |
| 17 | The recording balance too leaves something to be desired with the clarinet melody in the recapitulation of the first movement being pretty well obliterated by the piano 's arpeggios . |
| 18 | ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’ |
| 19 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 20 | ‘ Our services have been very well received by the public , ’ says Sharelink chief executive David Jones . |
| 21 | One excellent example of the failure of a religion has been very well provided by the history of Judaism . |
| 22 | He was obviously not very well educated by the way he spoke , and he seemed very troubled and disgruntled by what had happened to him . |