Example sentences of "[was/were] well [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such an institution , he felt , there was bound to be a number of aged people of unsound mind simply because of age ; they were better kept at the workhouse with a special attendant , and in a ground floor ward . |
| 2 | Monteverdi 's Vespers were of course quite exceptional , yet common Venetian and North Italian practices were better adapted to the expression of human emotion than of transcendental faith . |
| 3 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 4 | The musketry was not the huge eruptions of platoon fire , but rather the smaller sporadic snapping of skirmishers which betrayed that the French Voltigeurs were closing on the Dutch light troops , but both sets of skirmishers were well hidden from the Prince and his staff by the tall crops . |
| 5 | Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage . |
| 6 | Having noticed the hills were well defended to the north , this in itself became something of a challenge , and on my Groats End Walk , having met a friend off the train at Achanalt , we followed the only practical tracks south from there , which skirted out peaks on their east flanks . |
| 7 | Catches were well documented at the time and proceeds from sales were distributed to the poor of Doncaster . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's trade figures were well received in the City . |
| 9 | Sandys ' ‘ Articles of Religion ’ were well received by the majority in both major political parties in the House of Commons , and in the country at large . |
| 10 | There were no controls from non-malignant cases , but all specimens were well separated from the tumour , were normal on microscopy , and by all histological criteria were representative of normal gastric mucosa . |
| 11 | These two groups were well represented among the postgraduate registration . |
| 12 | Convocation committee were well represented in the procession which preceded the new Chancellor . |
| 13 | John Kornjaca and Bryn Kerr , restored to the No 8 and scrum-half positions respectively , both had sound games and were well supported in the back row by Edmonds and Bisdee , the latter moving back to his preferred position on the blind side . |
| 14 | The cable survey operations had another busy year and contracts were well executed across the world . |
| 15 | Their application to such industries as spinning and weaving in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often resulted in inventions suited to the circumstances of petty producers : The new machines required little capital and a family-sized labor force , and hence were well suited to the perpetuation of cottage industry . |
| 16 | They were well known at the Jade Cockatoo , for the seniors at Pinehurst were allowed to have tea in the town now and then . |
| 17 | The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor , who saw them regularly in the winter months . |
| 18 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 19 | The steam events were well reported in the Press and it would be difficult to add to those reports in matters of detail . |
| 20 | The Scottish arrangements were well established by the end of the nineteenth century ; in Wales the pattern has evolved since the 1950s . |
| 21 | He was better placed in a university than in a school , and enjoyed more than he could have done in any other society the life of that great college , which was to be his home for the remainder of his life . |
| 22 | And surely Isaiah Berlin was better seen as a liberal of the old school , a classic Millian , while Karl Popper arguably opened the way , via Lakatos , to Thomas Kuhn ? |
| 23 | In some ways , however , Alexander was better prepared for the throne than either of his immediate predecessors . |
| 24 | The mission attracted further media coverage when the flight commander , Anatoly Artsebarsky , stated in a pre-launch interview that he believed Sharman 's male back-up , Maj. Timothy Mace , was better qualified for the trip and that it was " not a woman 's business to fly into space " . |
| 25 | Sometimes appearing as a beautiful horse , saddled ready to ride , Lutin was better known as a hearth sprite . |
| 26 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 27 | After all SHE was the newcomer , and HE had starred alongside Michael J Fox in Bright Lights , Big City , and was better known in the movie-world . |
| 28 | In rats with chronic pancreatic fistula , the basal pancreatic protein secretion was well sustained at a level of about 10 mg/30 minutes throughout the seven hour experiment ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 29 | Hereford are only two off the bottom of the third division now after slipping up at Gillingham … their defence was well beaten by the opening goal from Arnott … |
| 30 | The importance of Stonyditch Point as the end of the spit for a long period is emphasised by the position of Orford , which was well situated as a port when the Ness ended at Stonyditch Point and not in its present position some miles to the south . |