Example sentences of "[adv] well [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd be much better off in the dining-room , ’ Alexandra said to the mice . |
| 3 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 4 | SOCIAL Security Secretary Peter Lilley was under fire last night for claiming the Government had protected the less well off through the recession . |
| 5 | But I said to him look Josh is n't exactly well off at the moment , he needs the money or what he bought so |
| 6 | so they 're probably better off in the sweat shop any way |
| 7 | Yeah probably so yeah , and at this time of year they 're fetching so ridiculous in low money anyway , probably better off in the summer when the lads want to go out , out and about , well they 're not bothered now nobody wants to go anywhere do they ? |
| 8 | They argued that , at least with respect to earnings , ‘ male clerks and shopworkers are now firmly among the broad mass of ordinary labour ; and indeed often well down towards the bottom of the pile ’ . |
| 9 | So what if it is somewhere well out of the way of your day-to-day life , you 're paying , are n't you ? |
| 10 | He wrestled to control himself , but the faint hope of convincing Mr Graham propelled the words irrepressibly from his lips : ‘ Actually , ’ he said as his boss opened the door , ‘ our banks have done rather well out of the debt crisis … ’ |
| 11 | THERE is a degree of planetary turmoil to contend with in November although , because much of it is focused in a sign entirely compatible with your own , you may do rather well out of the situation . |
| 12 | Certainly , it is no secret that , in proportional terms , Scotland has done rather well out of the arrangements . |
| 13 | erm A loyal friend , as well as an extremely amusing one , he seems to me to have lived remarkably well up to the standards that he set himself . |
| 14 | ‘ Though after last night … ’ his glance raked her face ‘ … maybe you 'd have done quite well out of the deal if you 'd bothered to follow through . ’ |
| 15 | It was a big undertaking , this farm , with hired hands on a permanent basis , so they were pretty well off by the standards of Baldersdale . |