Example sentences of "[noun sg] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 2 | I think in the end the tortoise does better than the hare . |
| 3 | It was France 's inexplicable failure to do better than draw with Cyprus in Limassol that helped Scotland to qualify for Italia '90 ahead of Michel Platini 's team . |
| 4 | As : When the 11+ tests were widely held , every year girls as a group did better than boys as a group on all three tests , including the one for arithmetic . |
| 5 | Speaker 3 appears to be a counter-example to this , in that the black group did better than the white group in guessing her to be black , although the difference was not statistically significant . |
| 6 | Transport does well because of investment in public transport as the plan 's measures to persuade people to leave their cars at home take effect . |
| 7 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 8 | How many Tit for Tats must there be in order for Tit for Tat to do better than Always Defect ? |
| 9 | Or , does the economy do better if they act as gardeners , nourishing the soil , pulling out the weeds , selecting the plants ? |
| 10 | Delighted to see Norwich and the Arse doing well tho' , hope they go all the way . |
| 11 | If , for example , we find that the flowers in one corner of the garden do better than those in another corner , we make various comparisons between the two sites , and perhaps reach the conclusion that it is the lack of sunshine on the second site that is causing those flowers to do so badly . |
| 12 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 13 | The report confirms that younger academics appointed under the UGC 's ‘ new blood ’ scheme do better than average in obtaining research funds . |
| 14 | The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted . |