Example sentences of "[adv] well [vb pp] [prep] [art] [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 | For these reasons , Coffin is perhaps better seen as a case in which the Divisional Court , contrary to the evidence , concluded that the situation was such that a breach of the peace was likely , and that the officers were seeking to prevent that at the time when the assault took place . |
| 3 | There are two good examples of this in the British Museum 's Roman sculpture collections : the ‘ Spinario ’ , a boy removing a thorn from his foot , and ‘ Clytie ’ , long taken to be a portrait of the emperor Claudius ' mother , the younger Antonia , but perhaps better identified as a personification of one of the nations defeated by Augustus . |
| 4 | HCIMA has been working closely with ARA Services to see how the standard can apply to catering and John Sharpe FHCIMA , the company 's quality development director , admits that contract caterers , unburdened by the extra difficulties caused by owning premises , are perhaps better suited to the concept than other sectors and will increasingly be asked in tender documents about their approach to BS7750 and its quality assurance forerunner 5750 . |
| 5 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 6 | Their father , Dr. William Shippen ( 1635–1693 ) was a native of Stockport who enjoyed a varied ecclesiastical career , returning to his home town in 1678 to become Rector : his younger brother , Edward , first Mayor of Philadelphia in the then American colonies , is perhaps better remembered as the founder of the wealthy transatlantic branch of the family . |
| 7 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor . |
| 10 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 11 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 12 | The probabilistic approach proved to be much better suited to the task . |
| 13 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |
| 14 | Major Iron Age stronghold , but much better known as the capital of the Ancient Nabataeans , fourth century BC to sixth century AD . |
| 15 | If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine . |
| 16 | It is with meaning , as the publicly accessible and thus objective constituent of texts , that literary criticism must be concerned ; effect , being both variable and private , is much better left outside the field of enquiry . |
| 17 | The yacht is very well equipped and extremely well maintained by a crew of 3 . |
| 18 | Erm we have produced a study pack which has been extremely well used within the church erm and is still being extremely well used . |
| 19 | The Liverpool West Indian and African traders were especially well organised through a committee which instructed Liverpool delegates giving evidence before parliamentary and Privy Council committees , dominated the common council and mayor 's office in Liverpool and , by means of local government , funded propaganda and maintained a stream of pro-slave trade petitions . |
| 20 | It 's so well written for the clarinet , and it certainly does not deserve its comparative neglect . ’ |
| 21 | Shelley wandered round the apartment blocks , in the shade of the abundant trees and shrubs so well arranged about the complex . |
| 22 | The majority of domains , however , do not share these characteristics and may not be so well represented within the LOB corpus . |
| 23 | Now the weaknesses in the American economy , so well hidden by the prosperity of the 1920s , became only too clear . |
| 24 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 25 | Such adaptations grab our attention because the characters seem so well designed for the job they perform . |
| 26 | Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say . |
| 27 | This is not so difficult in the tropical rainforest where the rainfall is so heavy and so well spread throughout the year that the centres of many plants are permanently filled with water . |
| 28 | That 's why it 's so well suited to a bedroom . |
| 29 | In Hong Kong the No. 3 warning is hoisted : a little coloured blip appears at the bottom left of the colony 's television screens , a constant reminder that a typhoon alert may soon be declared and the emergency drills so well practised in the territory brought into force . |
| 30 | In fact , anything of a business , property or joint financial nature is so well starred at the end of this month — only the most disillusioned Aries individual could fail to see that what lies ahead is the stuff that dreams are made of . |