Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiction and drama , when they are done well and provide a convincing , realistic context in which serious crimes occur , can often enable us to imagine ourselves doing things which , in the abstract description , we would consider impossible . |
| 2 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |
| 3 | Some animals are preserved better than others ; groups of animals with long life spans leave fewer fossils than those with short lives ; and seasonal migrations may upset the pattern . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , in both experiments there was a clear tendency for risky exemplars of risky junctions to be recognized well but for risky exemplars of less risky junctions to be recognized badly . |
| 5 | A man 's voice will be heard better than a woman 's voice . |
| 6 | There is no good reason — feminist or other — why cohabiting couples should be treated better than married ones . |
| 7 | Therefore , words will be reported better than single letters , i.e. there will be a word-superiority effect . |
| 8 | The control system appeared to be designed well and was well-regarded by staff . |
| 9 | need a new kitchen , du n no about need a new back door , our kitchen looks totally different to them , oh I know what it is , they 've got their door to the living room in the kitchen , that 's what makes a lot of difference do n't it ? but it could be designed better than that |
| 10 | If there are likely to be difficulties about accommodation for yourself as the daughter at home , after your parent 's death , contact should be made well before this event is imminent with the Housing Manager of the local council for advice , and you might write also to the Housing Corporation Head Office , Maple House , 149 Tottenham Court Road , London W1P 0BN , who will send a free directory of registered Housing Associations and other housing schemes in the area of your choice , so that you can begin forward planning . |
| 11 | And it certainly can be done well and I beleive with these standards it will be done well . |
| 12 | They have their ways of doing things — you might think some of these could be done better or in a different way . |
| 13 | It should be watered well and allowed to drain , and then put into its place in the home , out of the sun for a day or two . |
| 14 | But it can only be performed well if there is a profound democratization of the structure of accountability . |
| 15 | The Board have made four suggestions of ways in which the landscape can be used better and so attract more people : |
| 16 | — After the end of the reaction period , the hair should be rinsed well and in depth before starting on the desired hair-do . |
| 17 | THE CLASS of a locomotive can often be detected well before it appears on the scene simply by the sound of its whistle . |
| 18 | Most of the disputes within the DUP can be understood better if they are seen as ‘ personality ’ clashes rather than if one attempts to find major ideological rifts . |
| 19 | A von Restorff effect ( Wallace , 1965 ) refers to the common finding that a single distinctive item will tend to be remembered better than surrounding ones , a phenomenon which has often been linked with an impairment in memory for immediately preceding and following items in a list ( Brenner , 1973 ; Detterman , 1975 , 1976 ; Erdelyi & Blumenthal , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | The relativist denies that there is a universal , ahistorical standard of rationality with respect to which one theory can be judged better than another . |
| 21 | Others claim that projects will be handled better and result in a net saving . |
| 22 | I would be paid well but I had to keep my mouth shut . ’ |
| 23 | Firstly GpT and GpC are cut better than GpA , though both contain the required guanine . |
| 24 | If we assume that bleomycin cuts best in regions of alternating purine and pyrimidine by virtue of their structure , then this explains why GpT and GpC are cut better than GpA and GpG , and also explains why a 5'-pyrimidine increases the rate of cleavage at these sites . |
| 25 | Indeed , the interests of the capitalist class are served better when the state apparatus is not composed of members of this class than when it is , when the ‘ ruling class ’ is not the ‘ politically governing class ’ . |
| 26 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 27 | So some streets were considered better than others ? |
| 28 | Mm , it is , but it 's still not being done well as |
| 29 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 30 | A moral practice , Oakeshott suggests , is like a language ‘ in being an instrument of understanding and a medium of intercourse , in having a vocabulary and syntax of its own , and in being spoken well or ill ’ . |