Example sentences of "well [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rescheduling was deemed better than default . |
| 2 | Recording will begin shortly for a second title , Better Than Life , which is due in the autumn . |
| 3 | There 's plenty of room for cars in the yard — much better than parking in the village street . |
| 4 | This month , strategy will serve you far better than brute force . |
| 5 | A placebo controlled study has , however , been carried out in active distal ulcerative colitis by Angus et al , and showed that the drug was not significantly better than placebo . |
| 6 | The group pioneered the use of Hidden Markov Model techniques and were able to demonstrate performances far better than HARPY ( Bahl et al , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | But of course , better than treatment we have prevention do n't we ? |
| 8 | It was delicate pink coral and enhanced her maroon dress better than gold . |
| 9 | But perhaps more importantly , other countries found dollars not just as good as gold , but better than gold , since they could earn interest on their dollar holdings . |
| 10 | Everything had gone better than expectation . |
| 11 | However in other circumstances , especially when the seller has a degree of power through being able to meet buyer requirements better than competition , the seller may be able to trade concessions from the buyer . |
| 12 | Productivity : Benchmark what we do do and aim for a minimum standard of improvement better than inflation ; develop the skills base to tackle productivity problems across the Group ; set aggressive goals , guided by ‘ leading edge , not lunatic fringe ’ ; push harder to transfer best practices , with more involvement from the centre . |
| 13 | A barter economy still prevailed widely in 1922 , so that alcohol was a money substitute that kept and travelled better than grain . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't this better than champagne ? |
| 15 | Unless we do better than IT Year did in conveying what information technology is , who knows what uses the man on the Clapham omnibus will find for new technology . |
| 16 | I know Macca comes in for a lot of stick from certain members but he 's by far the classiest midfielder in the country and a damm sight better than alot of the so called european geniuses . |
| 17 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 18 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |
| 19 | Much better than Maxim 's . |
| 20 | Much better than conversation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
| 23 | Daylight and ordinary tungsten light do not mix together very well photographically ; on the other hand , fluorescent light is often used in kitchens and this mixes with daylight better than tungsten if ‘ daylight ’ tubes are in use , in which case set the camcorder white balance to the ‘ daylight ’ preset if you have the choice . |
| 24 | Probably binds the pitch better than water too . |
| 25 | Gabriel would never understand nor Charley offer an explanation except to say , ‘ Better than sex , Gaby , better than anything except creation . |
| 26 | If there 's any subsidence later on , this make of liner will take up the strain better than Butyl , claims the makers . |
| 27 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 28 | Alkalinity , though tolerated rather better than acidity , increases the toxicity of ammonia and reduces the availability to fish of essential mineral elements such as iron and copper ( in the case of iron a deficiency could produce anaemia ) . |
| 29 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 30 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |