Example sentences of "well [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 2 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 3 | In a series of meetings with employees he explained : ‘ A slimmed down , more agile Wedgwood Group will be much better placed to take advantage of worldwide recovery when it comes and to fight off our increasingly aggressive overseas competitors . |
| 4 | ‘ There were experienced rescuers at the resort but doctors from the hospital were probably better placed to deal with the victims . ’ |
| 5 | Once your health is restored , you 'll be better placed to assess your feelings . |
| 6 | In 1986 , J. Hillis Miller , than whom no one is better placed to judge , told the Modern Language Association of America that by the mid-1980s critical theory had shifted from invoking ‘ language ’ as a prime foundational term to a cluster of words which included ‘ history ’ , ‘ politics ’ , ‘ society ’ , and ‘ culture ’ . |
| 7 | Yes , they do , in the opinion of John Lyall , the manager of Ipswich and an expert better placed to judge than most . |
| 8 | Hour by hour , they were of course sizing things up : nobody was better placed to judge the feeling in the House . |
| 9 | In any social formation there is at least one class which , by virtue of its various determinations , is dominant in the sense that it is better placed to realise its interests than its rivals . |
| 10 | The new centralised system will also be better placed to improve the quality of the figures , which seems to have deteriorated sharply in recent years . |
| 11 | The directory will then be made available to students , trainees , and researchers who are better placed to carry out the studies . |
| 12 | The division of the YJ Lovell group says the move leaves it better placed to cash in on work it is currently bringing in from South Yorkshire . |
| 13 | Information is vital to politics and the well off are better placed to acquire and use it . |
| 14 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 15 | Internal structures modelled on the " organismic " organisation , ( Burns and Stalker 1961 ) with flexible project-based teams , are better placed to respond rapidly to change than fixed hierarchies . |
| 16 | The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools . |
| 17 | Well , er , equity accounting , James is better placed to answer that question than me . |
| 18 | Kingfisher 's 700-plus Woolworth outlets and the Superdrug chain are better placed to weather the slowdown . |
| 19 | Equally it is often used to explain why national leaders are better placed to mobilize collective effort in the national interest such as in the response to the second oil crisis in 1979 . |
| 20 | The big companies will also be better placed to finance the development of new technologies , turning this traditionally low-tech industry into something closer to chemical engineering . |
| 21 | In the promotion of rapid industrialization , the Japanese state fostered the growth of large organizations which would be better placed to resist the intense competition of Western companies . |
| 22 | From his present position , Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup . |
| 23 | The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility . |
| 24 | Nobody is better placed to understand the pain and loneliness of the stand-up comic better than Steve Martin . |
| 25 | It is probably true , its probably the case that every single person in the room is better placed to write this procedure then Jenny . |
| 26 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 27 | A man better placed to gain the support of the Visigoths was Avitus , praetorian prefect of Gaul from 439 . |
| 28 | Nor is it obvious that today 's generation is better placed to bear higher taxes than tomorrow 's generation — continuing economic growth would indeed argue the other way round . |
| 29 | Commission chairman , P.K. Iyengar , claims that such work is labour intensive , and hence India will be better placed to offer an economical service than more developed nations . |
| 30 | But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election . |