Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have a nose for money better than any hound for any fox . |
| 2 | It is well equipped , and warrior for warrior better than almost any other . |
| 3 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 4 | Well every , you know erm I can remember the time er when I first went and they used to have silver er plated of course , silver plated water jugs on the counter and silver plated sugar bowls with tongs and loaf sugar for people to use and of course well and when you see the war came along , you see , they were all taken away because , you see , we had troop trains we were up day and night so the troops with tea . |
| 5 | The production of a single cost figure per contract or even a very limited split of , say , labour , materials and expenses , is not particularly helpful to the surveying or management staff , although of course better than nothing . |
| 6 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 7 | A foot of honour better than I was |
| 8 | A foot of honour better than I was , |
| 9 | This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well . |
| 10 | They are confident of doing better than their 6–1 failure against Old Salopians in 1952 . |
| 11 | It has retained the strong legs and good feet of a draught animal , so that it can travel long distances over rough terrain on the range , and it has proved able to withstand the stress of drought better than other Bos taurus breeds . |
| 12 | Productivity : Benchmark what we do do and aim for a minimum standard of improvement better than inflation ; develop the skills base to tackle productivity problems across the Group ; set aggressive goals , guided by ‘ leading edge , not lunatic fringe ’ ; push harder to transfer best practices , with more involvement from the centre . |
| 13 | Groups with a relatively small potential membership , or where some members can bear the costs of organization better than others , are highly mobilized . |
| 14 | A drink of orange well since you were sick . |
| 15 | Nochlin controls this extraordinary range of material well and with great wit . |
| 16 | Mr Crick went on , ‘ But I think bulls like music better than cows . |
| 17 | Daylight and ordinary tungsten light do not mix together very well photographically ; on the other hand , fluorescent light is often used in kitchens and this mixes with daylight better than tungsten if ‘ daylight ’ tubes are in use , in which case set the camcorder white balance to the ‘ daylight ’ preset if you have the choice . |
| 18 | Insurance benefits , being linked through contributions to the level of wages , have until recently kept pace with inflation better than other benefits . |
| 19 | To me , the struggle is between anger and ultrasilence and I actually can deal with anger better than ultra-silence . |
| 20 | Now with summer well and truly upon us , it 's time for the first in a new series looking at some of the region 's loveliest gardens . |
| 21 | If sterling were at higher interest rates than the US$ , then clearly this represents a cost to the bank in that it has foregone a return in sterling better than that available in US$ , so that exchange risk can be hedged in the way described . |
| 22 | The criterion for capitalists to scrap old equipment is not whether the machine is physically serviceable — most machinery is withdrawn from use well before it has worn out — but whether it can any longer be operated profitably And the key factor which renders unprofitable the operation of older vintages of machinery is a rise in wage costs . |
| 23 | Nothing illustrates the blatant inequalities in society better than the fact that Durham County Council is having to close several old people 's homes . |
| 24 | Compact , however , aims to market jobs where levels of pay , working conditions , training and progression are in fact better than young people perceive . |
| 25 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |
| 26 | Inevitably , therefore , even within one category , some patients are more severely ill than others , some have more complications , some respond to treatment better than others , etc , etc . |
| 27 | Fifthly , to introduce something not so far mentioned , the objection may include the idea that if our causal thought did rest on the given conception of a causal circumstance , we should be able to do well at prediction better than in fact we do . |
| 28 | NO ONE knows the pain Princess Diana will feel being separated from her children at Christmas better than Hester Finn . |