Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 're obviously I mean most people are but you can obviously understand better think better if they 're more practical |
| 2 | It was felt by the Royal Commission on Police Powers that criminal prosecution and investigation could only work well if the general public felt confident in the role played by the police . |
| 3 | But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans . |
| 4 | Hospice administrator Deidre Shaw said : ‘ Our shop is a most essential source of income and can only operate well if it is given support by the public . |
| 5 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 6 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 7 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |
| 8 | Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted . |
| 9 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
| 10 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 11 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 12 | If Anselm with so many claims to respect could not do better than this , there could be no hope except in forgery : this was to be the next step . |
| 13 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |
| 14 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 15 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 16 | Water lilies do not grow well if water is falling onto their leaves . |
| 17 | This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side ! |
| 18 | retained direct control of the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ might not work well if the new lines had to be separated administratively from the Corporation system , so they decided to set up a subsidiary company as they had done in other areas . |
| 19 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 20 | Small cetaceans would probably not fare better than birds after exposure to excessive quantities of organochlorines. indeed dolphins and porpoises may be particularly vulnerable because they apparently have a lower capacity for PCB degradation than birds . |
| 21 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 22 | The fact is that the song did not sell well because , let's face it , it was a bloody awful record … ’ |
| 23 | Adhesion requires not only integrin ligands on the endothelium , but also activation signals because T-cell integrins can not bind well until they are activated . |
| 24 | But Sauvignon does not come better than this and to my mind the del Cero Sauvignon has more grace , character and length than the much-vaunted Cloudy Bay Sauvignon from New Zealand , which is comparably priced . |
| 25 | AS anti-climaxes go , they do not come better than this . |
| 26 | He did not write well because he had learned his letters late in life and , though Lucille had made him into a much better reader , he was still clumsy with a pen or pencil . |
| 27 | Even if the actual cost turned out to be quite high , it might still appear better than the other paths for which we have high estimates , estimates which may be considerably greater than their actual cost . |
| 28 | To understand the importance of these procedural developments , we can hardly do better than conclude with a comparison : Blackstone 's graphic and dismaying picture of the damage being done in England by entails . |
| 29 | If having encountered , say , the Rite , Petrushka , and Firebird , you wish to make further inroads into Stravinsky 's compositional genius , you could hardly do better than invest in this splendid disc . |
| 30 | When this is so , a visit will always go well if they are allowed to make the running . |