Example sentences of "well [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commission chairman , P.K. Iyengar , claims that such work is labour intensive , and hence India will be better placed to offer an economical service than more developed nations . |
| 2 | But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election . |
| 3 | And if Jardines sought to sell out of Hongkong Land , it would be better placed to demand a hefty premium for offering effective control without the need to buy out smaller shareholders . |
| 4 | He will thus be better equipped to give an informed opinion than under the present procedure when the papers are returned to him some months later through the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 5 | Sport does tend to thrust the begging bowl at politicians , when it would be better employed preparing an unanswerable case for substantial state aid . |
| 6 | In all such cases , the buyer is far better advised to include an express statement of the purpose for which the goods are intended , and an express warranty as to their suitability for it . |
| 7 | Surely he would be better advised to start a new series with Bus Pass Wish One . |
| 8 | Maybe she would be better advised to try a different approach . |
| 9 | As we said in the last chapter , the Church is well placed to give a positive message at this time , to speak of how mortality is understood and how it fits in with the Christian message of salvation . |
| 10 | Steering the RCN through the gravest provocation and confrontations — over industrial action , inadequacy of resources , management reorganisations , and the latest debacle over the implementation of a new clinical grading structure — he is strategically well placed to voice a considered opinion on the future of the profession in Britain as we enter the next decade . |
| 11 | With the two sides more or less equally matched in numbers , and Wightman 's horse unable to deploy effectively , Tullibardine was well placed to achieve a modest victory . |
| 12 | But the employers who were in fact well placed to have a statistical view of the matter , were not inclined to draw attention to the inconvenient figures . |
| 13 | On a daily basis the objectives are to ‘ make sure that the investments or companies are progressing according to plan and are well placed to survive a prolonged recession ’ and , he adds , ‘ dare I say it , to benefit from the upturn when it comes ’ . |
| 14 | Manson is well placed to complete a Scottish double on the Safari Tour , Eyemouth 's Craig Maltman having won last week 's Kenya Open in Nairobi . |
| 15 | When World War I broke out in 1914 , Malcolm was well placed to play an important role in the British Expeditionary Force . |
| 16 | TES president sees this as an important step forward in their drive to expand their overseas market : ‘ With the strength and resources of the Wood Group behind us , TES is well positioned to become a dominant player in all the markets we serve ’ . |
| 17 | In general , the items appear to be well selected to reflect a broad range of grammatical abilities . |
| 18 | For all of this , you might well expect to pay a premium price , but with a recommended price of £149 , which is very likely to be discounted to under the £100 mark , DesignWorks lies in the ‘ affordable ’ bracket . |
| 19 | Graduates in the Social Sciences are well equipped to enter a large variety of occupations on leaving the University . |
| 20 | I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party , minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake . |
| 21 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 22 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 23 | Increase in annual temperature range on the continents as a consequence of regression of epicontinental seas might well have played a significant role in the mass extinctions of large reptiles at the end of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic . |
| 24 | Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished . |
| 25 | The individual teacher may well have made a significant development in his or her own understanding , but that is not a sufficient condition of securing publication ( thesis three ) . |
| 26 | But such institutions could well have exercised a restraining influence on some groups of workers . |
| 27 | In both cases , their separate experience may well have created a special atmosphere , although my informants all stressed that they got on perfectly well with the men at work . |
| 28 | To have intervened on either occasion might well have started a Third World War , and each time Dulles withdrew from the brink . |
| 29 | Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser . |
| 30 | Borg had enjoyed what he may well have considered an unrepeatable run of success ; perhaps he thought it was all downhill from there . |