Example sentences of "not [vb infin] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their chaos and squalor did not compare well with the pristine beauty of Jerba and , as a lone male out of season , I was prey to a horde of street hustlers . |
| 2 | Statistics like these do not compare well with the animal world where the male rattlesnake apparently lasts twenty-four hours before letting himself go . |
| 3 | Although those figures are welcome , is the Minister aware that we do not compare well with our European colleagues and that our declining infant mortality rate is not as good as many of their rates ? |
| 4 | On May 11 she was at Camp IV ( 7,900m ) on the north side of the mountain with her companion Carlos Carsolio , where she complained of sickness and did not eat well . |
| 5 | Contrary to what Harney says , the disc margins in this condition need not remain well defined . |
| 6 | Mark ( 1989 ) applies this consideration to the digital line graph , extended ( DLG-E ) model of cartographic representation used by the US Geological Survey mapping programme and comments that the rules and feature classes adopted do not relate well to an image-schema , and hence will be difficult to generalize . |
| 7 | Basil does not transplant well , so seed is sown one or two to a small pot , and then planted out complete , without disturbing the root-hall . |
| 8 | They families say that people with severe learning difficulties do not adapt well to sudden changes of environment . |
| 9 | ‘ Lord , I can not demonstrate well here , but I will try . |
| 10 | The Newbolt — Leavis claim that English was not just one more academic subject does not survive well in this climate . |
| 11 | Some types of marine which do not survive well in an aquarium ie some Butterflies |
| 12 | Owing to poor light conditions , these particular marks did not photograph well . |
| 13 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 14 | The guard posted at the entrance to their quarters is a man she does not know well ; Ariel registers this discrepancy , wonders about it , thinks of Jack Elsey with a moment of affection . |
| 15 | Alternatively it could be that all subjects perform differently on junctions they previously knew well compared to those they did not know well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 18 | October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year . |
| 19 | Yarns with some texture , for example , usually need to be used with simple designs , since complex patterns do not show well . |
| 20 | It has never been de rigueur for academics who rise to high places in English departments , and , conversely , students who possess it may not do well in formal examinations . |
| 21 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 22 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 23 | Labour , like other left parties , does not do well in a recession , but prospers when the economy is booming , unemployment is going down , and redistribution favours me-firstism . |
| 24 | It does not do well in peat or sand alone , though a small quantity of these mixed in the above recommended mixture will be satisfactory . |
| 25 | Black kids go to school ill-equipped to do well and , of course , the majority do not do well academically . |
| 26 | By this reasoning the things which they do not do well become part of the ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 27 | They enlisted the young Joan at art school , but he did not do well there , and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The world 's top resorts — Trois Vallees , Val/Tignes , La Plagne , Portes du Soleil , Dolomiti Superski , Verbier — did not do well . |
| 30 | The plant , robbed of light , did not do well , and eventually David was moved down to Emma 's windows . |