Example sentences of "well [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if these stories are to be believed then Jesus was a walker too , liking nothing better that a hearty stroll in the beautiful Mendip Hills in Somerset . |
| 2 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 3 | And yet this creature who so violates the natural order and traditional gender divisions by dressing as a man also does things better than a man : ‘ I should draw first and prove the quicker man ’ , she says ( iv . |
| 4 | But she still laboured under the apprehension that she had to prove herself better than a famous opponent who has been more successful than any other English singles player of the decade . |
| 5 | You better than a sleepin' pill . ’ |
| 6 | Better than a poky little office in a characterless building on the South Bank — and meeting after meaningless meeting ! ’ |
| 7 | Better than a view of cardboard panes and the next-door privies . |
| 8 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |
| 9 | If this looks likely , you have to be absolutely certain they 're going to achieve your objectives better than a human being ! |
| 10 | ‘ Better than a funeral . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 12 | He was led to believe that he would receive better than a university education with Mr. Wickstead as his personal tutor . |
| 13 | ‘ Hey , there 's nothing I like better than a slow cruise off the Spanish Main , a cool drink , and a little hot music . |
| 14 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 15 | A forty-year-old today looks a lot better than a forty-year-old of twenty years ago . ’ . |
| 16 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 17 | Better than a turntable ? |
| 18 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 19 | Tighter , sweeter , better than a woman any day — that was what they said . |
| 20 | A man 's voice will be heard better than a woman 's voice . |
| 21 | Much better than a line-out with them throwing-in on half-way . |
| 22 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 23 | That will be to you better than a light and safer than a known way ’ . |
| 24 | The dishes below are filling and delicious , while at the same time ‘ good for you ’ — far better than a chocolate bar or sweet biscuits . |
| 25 | So far in this chapter , I have described some of the plainer basic shapes , for often it is the less complicated shapes that work better than a contrived design . |
| 26 | ‘ Better than a Sunday dinner , that was . ’ |
| 27 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
| 28 | I can only stress that when we return to our dingy little squats after a hard day baiting rock gods and ignoring letters from readers , there 's nothing we like better than a long listen to Pink Floyd 's ‘ Animals ’ or Mr Oldfield 's ‘ Ommadawn ’ while soaking our horny feet in a scalding bowl of mushroom chow mein . |
| 29 | Better than a bull fight . |
| 30 | Indeed , the ILEA , precisely because its schools operate in such widely differing circumstances , has published a ‘ league table ’ of 16-plus examination results adjusted for intake factors , which shows that schools with a disadvantaged intake can do relatively better than a school with an advantaged intake . |