Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] well [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Around the titles is built a mystique that implies that this quite ordinary product is somehow different and better than anything else on the market .
2 So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important .
3 All forest weavers were relatively unsociable as well as being monogamous and eating insects .
4 However , this recognition is not in order to freeze into cynical inaction , in the words of John Huddleston , but rather to ensure that our thinking about the future is practical and down-to-earth as well as visionary ( Huddleston , 1991 ) .
5 From the contemplation of these copies he distilled " the spirit of Greek art " , which became , for him and his successors , not only the characteristic of all Greek art ( poetic as well as visual ) , but also the criterion of aesthetic value judgements in general .
6 Although crustal collisions may involve intra-oceanic as well as continental-margin island arcs , it is the convergence and eventual collision of continental crust that gives rise to intercontinental collision orogens ( Fig. 3.15 ) .
7 ‘ An electric sports car whose exciting styling , 80mph top speed and 6secs 0–60mph time prove that battery power can be exciting as well as green ’
8 For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud .
9 The prospect of real freedom after so many years of oppression is exciting as well as daunting .
10 In some languages , such as Arabic , gender distinctions apply to the second- as well as third-person pronouns .
11 The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy .
12 French Basques seem happy to go on being French as well as Basque .
13 In Belgrade ( the Serbian as well as the federal capital ) tens of thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins held a vigil on Jan. 30-31 outside the Federal Assembly building to demand that the Army be sent into Kosovo and to protest against the stance of the Slovene and Croatian leaderships .
14 I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite .
15 Highly entertaining as well as informative .
16 Jurisdiction must involve the power to make a wrong as well as a correct decision .
17 The first is the normal one that both manager and employees are effort- as well as risk-averse .
18 Try to assess the general state of repair — look for signs of damp as well as cracks in walls and ceilings .
19 However , the Census is a diachronic as well as a synchronic dataset .
20 The gifts offered no doubt included the alms of the faithful as well as bread and wine .
21 Such arguments show that the instrumental as well as the non-instrumental validations of consent depend on its being freely given .
22 The reading of English poetry would be accompanied by a consideration of historical as well as current theories of poetry .
23 The interpretation of the courts advanced in the second chapter of this book accepts many of the arguments put forth by these scholars , but provides a fuller model of judicial behaviour which is historical as well as functional .
24 Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries .
25 Empirical studies of older cultural institutions , drawing on historical as well as sociological procedures , include Collins ( 1928 ) , Beljame ( 1948 ) , Altick ( 1957 ) , Williams ( 1961 ) and Escarpit ( 1966 ) .
26 For Warr , however , the issue is historical as well as moral , the reflection of an age-long struggle for rational laws rooted in ‘ a spirit of understanding big with freedom and having a single respect to people 's rights ’ .
27 In his later years , he was closely associated with Cecil Rhodes so these records might have some historical as well as family interest . ’
28 If it is windy as well as cold , remember particularly to wear gloves , a hat and a scarf .
29 Identifying the specific concrete practice of an occupational group is , of course , a theoretical as well as an empirical task .
30 The return of the Conservative Party to power in 1979 simply accelerated the collapse of regional policies ; they were now seen as unhelpful both in theoretical as well as pragmatic terms .
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