Example sentences of "[adv] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 2 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 3 | I mean you obviously did well because you 've realized you 've forgotten it and you know you 've got ta , the ideal two worst steps over to , the person who 's sitting here is not gon na say , hold on , where 's the buyer 's guide , |
| 4 | I E th there , there is no guarantee within the May the fourth directive that , that the poor do significantly a as a group all do well because th th they , they , they , there 's nothing to guarantee that they all share properly in the fruits of struggle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I should think you 'd have easy done better than |
| 14 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 15 | She felt that he was not doing well because he was not trying hard enough , and that his teachers were not making him try hard enough . |
| 16 | The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services has shown , for example , that long stay and ‘ new long stay ’ patients ( those who have been in hospital between one and five years ) generally do well when they are discharged into the community . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Chinese restaurants and McDonald 's are still doing well because they have concentrated on the product . |
| 20 | LLOYD 'S is still doing better than the corporate insurers said David Coleridge , chairman of Lloyd 's . |
| 21 | But the paradox is that if both sides were to disarm , they would both do better than by both arming , because each prefers mutual disarmament ( 3 , 3 ) to the arms race ( 2 , 2 ) . |
| 22 | I have had good catches before the moon rises and have also done well after it has set , but periods when the moon is bright at night are best ignored . |
| 23 | Erm I personally feel although some members of me team do n't agree er with the with the heavy a advertising expenditure we 've got , we can probably do better than two and a half the first year certainly erm and maybe ten percent of the market in the end of the at the end of the day . |
| 24 | Mother and baby are both doing well although dad was a bit tired ! |
| 25 | Anyway Si , probably do better than me . |
| 26 | The main opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) and the Unification National Party ( UNP — formed in January 1992 ) both did better than had been expected . |
| 27 | Barristers do better than solicitors , but both do better than lawyers in private practice . |
| 28 | They also do better than most in soilless composts . |
| 29 | The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard . |
| 30 | The important characteristic of an evolutionarily stable strategy , you will remember from earlier chapters , is that it carries on doing well when it is already numerous in the population of strategies . |