Example sentences of "well [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When World War I broke out in 1914 , Malcolm was well placed to play an important role in the British Expeditionary Force . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | In general , the items appear to be well selected to reflect a broad range of grammatical abilities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Graduates in the Social Sciences are well equipped to enter a large variety of occupations on leaving the University . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | But such institutions could well have exercised a restraining influence on some groups of workers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To have intervened on either occasion might well have started a Third World War , and each time Dulles withdrew from the brink . |
| 21 | Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser . |
| 22 | Borg had enjoyed what he may well have considered an unrepeatable run of success ; perhaps he thought it was all downhill from there . |
| 23 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |
| 24 | To Henry it may well have seemed a sensible way of killing two birds with one stone — chastising rebels and at the same time providing his warlike second son with useful experience . |
| 25 | This worked as a part of the discourse he was involved in ( the interview ) even if he did use a grammatical construction which might well have got a red line through it if he had written it as part of a school essay . |
| 26 | The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat . |
| 27 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death . |
| 29 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 30 | Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing . |