Example sentences of "[adv] well as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’ |
| 2 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 3 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 4 | No one can present that point to the King so well as you . |
| 5 | ‘ No man practises so well as he writes . |
| 6 | Without their dedicated service , the prison would not be run so well as it is . |
| 7 | Everything works so well as it is . |
| 8 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 9 | Brought up well as I was actually born in the village and that 's where I 've come home to roost when I left the army . |
| 10 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 11 | Believing that people were always like we are , they just did n't understand themselves as well as we do , leads to dangerous historical inaccuracies . |
| 12 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 13 | If we are not able to function mentally as well as we normally do , are our minds full of anxious thoughts , emotional fears or business worries ? |
| 14 | We now know the Moon 's surface as well as we know the Earth 's . |
| 15 | Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed . |
| 16 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 17 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 18 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 19 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 20 | So we prepared the ship as well as we could , and waited . |
| 21 | The meaning that word has within these walls the saint knows as well as we . |
| 22 | He knows as well as we do that there is no guarantee that all the purchases will be made by buy-out teams which , as he said , may reasonably not be expected to reduce the quality of their pension schemes . |
| 23 | Dysart nodded , considered the point for a moment then said : ‘ Some might say it was a sign she had n't recovered as well as we 'd hoped . ’ |
| 24 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 25 | We are dealing with it as well as we can in the circumstances and are beginning to have some real effect . |
| 26 | Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products . |
| 27 | You see , it 's not just speaking in other tongues , there is gon na become the evidence of it as well as we grow in him . |
| 28 | The Conservatives in Wales have actually taken this principal much further they do n't only allow overseas voters to participate in Welsh elections , they actually encourage them to become chairmen of our quangos as well as we 've got David Robeddow chairman of Conservatives abroad in Monte Carlo i if the panel out . |
| 29 | Everything will be overshadowed by these events but we intend to go on making the week work as well as we can . |
| 30 | ‘ I will be more than happy if we play as well as we did against Stockport County , providing we get a little luck . |