Example sentences of "doing [adv] well [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Pitman , which is the U K leading er , business book publisher increased sales by sixteen percent and Alhambra after the er , reorganization is doing rather well and the first book we 've published on the new Spanish educational curriculum is forty percent ahead of er , budget .
2 But he s doing remarkably well considering he is a natural right winger .
3 There were marvellous areas of growth , like Caribbean cruising with the fantastic prices and quality incidental to the impact of all the extra tonnage , and the ferries were doing so well that it would be a good idea to discourage people from turning up in hordes at Dover unticketed .
4 Bulmers is doing so well that it 's going to need an extra two hundred tons of apples a day from local growers …
5 He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it .
6 Said Robson : ‘ I 'm delighted they are doing so well and , like many people , have been surprised by their great position .
7 ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted .
8 And there , lots of people and and lots of them actually they came from Abbotsbury and that all their kids were doing so well and then this period of a year , nothing !
9 But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’
10 Asked to explain why his chain should be doing so well when so many others are going to the wall , Mr Myers points to stringent management .
11 Similarly , the West Midlands , except Coventry , still seems to be an area where Labour is doing less well than it should all other things being equal .
12 You know , nobody 's expecting three or four sides , right , you 've got quarter of an hour , not erm , you know , if , if you can write a side a half you , you 'll be doing much better than most people , alright , so you 're just thinking about a side really , depending on how big your handwriting is .
13 ‘ For 20 years the Childrens ’ Hearing system has progressed very positively and we are doing much better than our brethren south of the Border in looking after the interests of children in Scotland . ’
14 According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , Rover is doing slightly better than many competitors .
15 Apparently they 're holding their own — and , in fact , doing slightly better than anyone expected . ’
16 ‘ A further complication is that some products are doing exceptionally well while others are in decline . ’
17 And those with larger amounts to invest — attracting even higher rates of interest — are doing substantially better than that .
18 Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended .
19 A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms .
20 One group holds those who read at low levels but who are ‘ doing as well as can be expected ’ .
21 Mcallister does seem to be overshadowed by him when he is on the pitch , looking for him to take the lead , provide the inspiration etc which strach is no longer doing as well as he once did .
22 They are n't renowned for becoming millionaires after their footie days are over , so I suppose it 's a case of doing as well as you can while you can .
23 But f***ing Newcastle … we did n't get this much parise our first season back … and I think we were doing as well as they are .
24 cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected
25 I think they 're doing as well as can be expected .
26 The 10-month-old Italians were said to be ‘ stable and doing as well as can be expected ’ at London 's Great Ormond Street children 's hospital .
27 The two eldest kids are doing as well as they can and are bearing up as best as can be expected , ’ she said ‘ But my youngest boy has n't left my side since it happened .
28 cos at the weekend I did really well cos I got a couple done at youth club and a couple done at work I thought , yeah , I was doing really well but Monday I forgot to bring the spare batteries which was a bit divvy of me and I was gon na record it all during sewing Tuesday I went to placement
29 I was doing really well and I 'm really
30 We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now .
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