Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of our business sectors , notably nitrogen and solvents , are expected to continue to perform well and will be operated to generate cash to help fund growth sectors elsewhere . |
| 2 | The relatively good performances of those with an OU credit or one A-level would reinforce Smithers and Griffin 's and Walker 's evidence that non-traditional students selected on the basis of some evidence of academic achievement can be expected to perform well when compared with traditional students . |
| 3 | It also remains unclear to what extent disabled people working in the health and caring professions have a better understanding of illness and disability than their able-bodied colleagues , although it can be argued that this should not be a central Issue as disabled people should not be expected to perform better than other people in order to be acceptable . |
| 4 | You know what you want to buy better than I do anyway . |
| 5 | As the Young family regularly pits its wits against the Mastermind contenders with spectacular lack of success most Sundays , I was expected to do better than usual . |
| 6 | ‘ Horace always wants to do better than anyone 's done before . ’ |
| 7 | Erm East Midlands erm expect to do well and that continues a reasonably firm trend . |
| 8 | And I want to eat well and I want to be comfortable and I want to stay in good hotel |
| 9 | The client , who generally accepted the traditional process , also accepted the form of contract for what it was : a formal document encapsulating the procedures which seemed to work well and produced few disputes . |
| 10 | But as usual Nan seemed to know better than everyone what to do . |
| 11 | Courses near stations , such as Maidenhead and Beaconsfield , seemed to prosper better than those less accessible , like Huntercombe which struggled , despite being highly regarded . |
| 12 | D had the same complaint about C. B and C also admitted to finding it very difficult to manage their immediate subordinates , C and D respectively , who seemed to do better if treated as colleagues and left alone . |
| 13 | How could anyone , ’ he asked , ‘ hope to get well or remain cheerful in such an environment of decay ? ’ |
| 14 | How could anyone , hope to get well or remain cheerful in such an environment of decay ? ’ |
| 15 | Pelargoniums seem to flower better when rather pot-bound , so keep their roots restricted . |
| 16 | Interestingly , initial offerings that reverse leveraged buy-outs — a fast-growing category , especially in America — seem to perform better than average . |
| 17 | The great majority would like to see better and wider roads which would be less congested and safer . |
| 18 | It was clear that UUUC were going to do well but many people including perhaps some UUUC candidates themselves were surprised at the extent of their success , The relative absence of " Centre " candidates in the Westminster X-vote election of October 1974 was marked and this alone and understandably made realists doubt the validity of the figures as a guide to a single transferable vote election six months later . |
| 19 | Recently , fashion has been very safe , but now it 's becoming more aggressive , it 's making more statements , and the French are going to do well because of that , ’ says Guy Tolson . |
| 20 | You 've really got to do better than this , Clarissa , she told herself . |
| 21 | Any winged craft has got to do better than Mach 5 to get into space . |
| 22 | When the buyer said , ‘ You 've got to do better than that , ’ Harry assumed he had to lower his price in order to close the sale . |
| 23 | Erm , now Barbara , I know you have n't been in the job as long as the other two , but er , really you 've got to do better than this I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | He 's got to do better than that . |
| 25 | Having said that , we would agree that in the past 25 years Oxford has tended to do better than Cambridge on several fronts . |
| 26 | Some patients seem to do well and have a bowel frequency of less than four in 24 hours without any impairment of continence . |
| 27 | Mind you any food in our stomach was going to get well and truly shaken up . |
| 28 | ‘ And we have got to defend better than that . ’ |
| 29 | Obviously , experimentation is going to yield better and better results , but few guitar players would find much trouble extracting a workable sound in a matter of minutes . |
| 30 | Unskilled workers tend to do better than the professionals , enjoying the advantages of a free market for the first time in their lives . |