Example sentences of "do well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 32 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 33 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 34 | I think I 'll get done better as well . |
| 35 | I concede that the Chemical Industries Association could have done better and am grateful for the extra publicity ( Chem . |
| 36 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 37 | Even with the problems , he still believed the team should have done better and was disappointed with the standard of performance , although he conceded home advantage was telling . |
| 38 | They have their ways of doing things — you might think some of these could be done better or in a different way . |
| 39 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 40 | Sky may do better than most people think , but it will not turn into another Fox , breaking even in its second year . |
| 41 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 42 | If there is any range of activities in which those who possess great power clearly can do better than most people it is in co-ordinating the activities of many people . |
| 43 | ‘ I do n't think you can do better than follow the great masters , even if you ca n't hope to emulate them . |
| 44 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
| 45 | Fourteen strategies were submitted For good measure Axelrod added a fifteenth , called Random , which simply played COOPERATE and DEFECT randomly , and served as a kind of baseline ‘ non-strategy ’ : if a strategy ca n't do better than Random , it must be pretty bad . |
| 46 | You can do better than that . ’ |
| 47 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
| 48 | As far as the grades allotted to the candidates are concerned , a conscientious and uninterested student may very well do better than one who is imaginative and perhaps wayward . |
| 49 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 50 | We can do better than taking simple means of three , however . |
| 51 | We really could do better than that and began rehearsing the ‘ Messiah . ’ |
| 52 | To understand the importance of these procedural developments , we can hardly do better than conclude with a comparison : Blackstone 's graphic and dismaying picture of the damage being done in England by entails . |
| 53 | But the paradox is that if both sides were to disarm , they would both do better than by both arming , because each prefers mutual disarmament ( 3 , 3 ) to the arms race ( 2 , 2 ) . |
| 54 | If having encountered , say , the Rite , Petrushka , and Firebird , you wish to make further inroads into Stravinsky 's compositional genius , you could hardly do better than invest in this splendid disc . |
| 55 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 56 | If you want special dishes with a difference that still have a sense of occasion and which are both tasty and good for you , then you could n't do better than choosing Tilda Basmati rice . |
| 57 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 58 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 59 | So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse . |
| 60 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |