Example sentences of "[adj] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Brien uses the phrase ‘ perverse incentives ’ to explain how a garage that performs poorly is likely to do better than one that performs well . |
| 2 | But educational theorists do at least know that it is possible to do better than this . |
| 3 | And there is room for them all to do better than each other . |
| 4 | The realisation of this aim has remained elusive ; in all societies the children of the powerful do better than those of the powerless . |
| 5 | We are sure that , as now , many hospitals will be able to do better than this . |
| 6 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 7 | The leader takes account of these responses in choosing its output and is able to do better than it would under Cournot reactions there is a ‘ first mover ’ or precommitment advantage . |
| 8 | ‘ I may be able to do better than that , ’ said Tracey . |
| 9 | But because of the bureaucratic necessity to generalize and disregard distinctions too fine for large-scale enforcement and administration , some people are able to do better if they refuse to acknowledge the authority of this law . |
| 10 | Even plants which were well grown , and vigorous to start with , are unlikely to do well after such treatment , and unfortunately the mail-order nurseries have no control over postal treatment or delays . |
| 11 | Evidence also shows that mature students in general do better than younger students in all areas of study except those relating to Engineering subjects . |