Example sentences of "[noun] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council . |
| 2 | Candidates endorsed by the republic 's nationalist Popular Front-style organization Adradzhenne did better than expected , despite alleged official harassment during the campaign , but compared with the other two Slav republics there were no spectacular upsets . |
| 3 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 4 | And er that puts some obligation on Notts next week and then er in December to do well when they 're in Italy erm also an obligation to do well now , but bu get back to the point I 'm trying make . |
| 5 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 6 | I think in the end the tortoise does better than the hare . |
| 7 | It was France 's inexplicable failure to do better than draw with Cyprus in Limassol that helped Scotland to qualify for Italia '90 ahead of Michel Platini 's team . |
| 8 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 9 | So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them . |
| 10 | As : When the 11+ tests were widely held , every year girls as a group did better than boys as a group on all three tests , including the one for arithmetic . |
| 11 | Speaker 3 appears to be a counter-example to this , in that the black group did better than the white group in guessing her to be black , although the difference was not statistically significant . |
| 12 | Even the right hon. Member for Finchley did better than that . |
| 13 | Transport does well because of investment in public transport as the plan 's measures to persuade people to leave their cars at home take effect . |
| 14 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 15 | How many Tit for Tats must there be in order for Tit for Tat to do better than Always Defect ? |
| 16 | The survey , surprisingly , shows that high-rise flats do better than average , with the main offenders being terraced houses . |
| 17 | WHETHER today 's Greeks do better than poor Sisyphus and Tantalus will be decided chiefly by the success or failure of the attempt to stop them being tax-dodgers . |
| 18 | But even in a bad market some firms do better than others . |
| 19 | Or , does the economy do better if they act as gardeners , nourishing the soil , pulling out the weeds , selecting the plants ? |
| 20 | However , a substantial proportion of patients do well as outpatients — eg , those whose emaciation is not severe ( body mass index >17 ) , who have no serious medical complications , who are motivated for change , and who have supportive friends and relatives . |
| 21 | Professor Madeley said : ‘ There is no doubt that patients with a strong network of friends do better than those without . ’ |
| 22 | Cabs carrying Sherlock Holmes did better than that , and you could n't grow roses using Armstrong 's exhaust . |
| 23 | Yeah , Jacqueline did better than what she did . |
| 24 | Hobbs did better than his soccer counterpart , Dixie Dean , whose goal-scoring achievements were so famous for a decade from 1927 . |
| 25 | Delighted to see Norwich and the Arse doing well tho' , hope they go all the way . |
| 26 | When it comes to Guinness , can UK prosecutors do better than their American counterparts in putting Boesky 's tipoffs to good use ? |
| 27 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 28 | ‘ There are some things I always feel men do better than women . ’ |
| 29 | If , for example , we find that the flowers in one corner of the garden do better than those in another corner , we make various comparisons between the two sites , and perhaps reach the conclusion that it is the lack of sunshine on the second site that is causing those flowers to do so badly . |
| 30 | Foster did well as nightwatchman but otherwise only Gooch , in one of his slowest innings , stood firm ; he batted over seven hours with the ball moving around awkwardly and had 84 to his name when he was last out , having seen the total to 202 . |