Example sentences of "[noun pl] do well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may also be changes in performance , with some schools doing better and others less well than in the past . |
| 2 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
| 3 | Air and ground crews did well and it is quite clear that the OCU effort was in no way inferior to that of the operational Canberra PR squadrons . ’ |
| 4 | The managing director , Roger Spence , said : ‘ It has been a different sort of recession as traditionally the view is that theatre and leisure areas do better than others , but that has not been the case . |
| 5 | So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them . |
| 6 | The survey , surprisingly , shows that high-rise flats do better than average , with the main offenders being terraced houses . |
| 7 | The South-West circuit is where few visiting teams do well and Boro had to rely too heavily on their new captain , Steve Regeling , and his fellow Australian Dave Cheshire . |
| 8 | WHETHER today 's Greeks do better than poor Sisyphus and Tantalus will be decided chiefly by the success or failure of the attempt to stop them being tax-dodgers . |
| 9 | But even in a bad market some firms do better than others . |
| 10 | However , a substantial proportion of patients do well as outpatients — eg , those whose emaciation is not severe ( body mass index >17 ) , who have no serious medical complications , who are motivated for change , and who have supportive friends and relatives . |
| 11 | Beneath the bare result was the familiar curate 's egg pattern of some bits doing well and some less well . |
| 12 | There were five countries ( of the twenty involved in the study ) where there was no difference between girls and boys , five where girls did better and ten where boys did better . |
| 13 | Professor Madeley said : ‘ There is no doubt that patients with a strong network of friends do better than those without . ’ |
| 14 | When it comes to Guinness , can UK prosecutors do better than their American counterparts in putting Boesky 's tipoffs to good use ? |
| 15 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 16 | ‘ There are some things I always feel men do better than women . ’ |
| 17 | On most of these the boys did better than the girls , especially on drawing and visualization items . |
| 18 | It is only in certain subjects — notably mathematics , technical subjects and physics — that boys do better than girls . |
| 19 | Barristers do better than solicitors , but both do better than lawyers in private practice . |
| 20 | While Sears ( 1983 ) study of university students reported that mature students are less likely to be more successful than their younger counterparts in the areas of science , engineering and medicine , Brennan and McGeevor ( 1985 ) , in their study of CNAA graduates , report that mature students do better than younger students in all areas of study except those relating to engineering subjects . |
| 21 | It would appear that older students do better than younger students ( under the age of 21 at entry ) in arts and social sciences , whereas this is less likely in disciplines such as science , engineering , health studies and medicine . |