Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief Supt Baker added : ‘ The carnival is too big for Handsworth now and there are more suitable parks , big and accessible enough to cope better than the cramped Victorian streets of Handsworth . |
| 2 | Now you 're obviously I mean most people are but you can obviously understand better think better if they 're more practical |
| 3 | ‘ She only sleeps well when I 'm in there with her . |
| 4 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 5 | But if you only listen well and make little contribution yourself , you risk suppressing your own needs and leaving the other party feeling cheated and exposed at the end of the conversation . |
| 6 | It was felt by the Royal Commission on Police Powers that criminal prosecution and investigation could only work well if the general public felt confident in the role played by the police . |
| 7 | But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans . |
| 8 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 9 | Colin Howes , Branson 's lawyer , perhaps recognised better than most that Branson was in a period of significant transition . |
| 10 | ‘ We are all doing well but so is Kylie . ’ |
| 11 | It was an order , a decree that had to be obeyed , and the woman obviously knew better than to argue . |
| 12 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 13 | Hospice administrator Deidre Shaw said : ‘ Our shop is a most essential source of income and can only operate well if it is given support by the public . |
| 14 | I mean you obviously did well because you 've realized you 've forgotten it and you know you 've got ta , the ideal two worst steps over to , the person who 's sitting here is not gon na say , hold on , where 's the buyer 's guide , |
| 15 | I E th there , there is no guarantee within the May the fourth directive that , that the poor do significantly a as a group all do well because th th they , they , they , there 's nothing to guarantee that they all share properly in the fruits of struggle . |
| 16 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 17 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 18 | It has thus fared better than a small party could expect , maintaining a PS almost equal to its PV and even on occasion slightly in excess of it . |
| 19 | What do we already do well that the National Curriculum planners have neglected — remembering that if we think we do something well we need to be able to look closely , give reasons , describe in detail . |
| 20 | I should think you 'd have easy done better than |
| 21 | KMT mavericks ( the so-called " non-mainstream " faction ) contested seats without official party endorsement and generally performed better than their " mainstream " counterparts , attacking alleged corruption within the " mainstream " ranks . |
| 22 | Consumer products , especially cosmetics and detergents , generally performed better than industrial and professional markets , both for detergents and food . |
| 23 | You know just getting well cos as you know you do n't know who you 're gon na talk to . |
| 24 | The pattern of sex differences was that girls generally scored better than the boys on the money and number pattern items and boys on the measures . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , there was an important distinction to be made between cases where the complainant claimed to recognise the assailant as a person he already knew well and those where the complainant had never seen the assailant before . |
| 26 | The group has nevertheless resisted well and its brands have maintained or increased market share . |
| 27 | The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services has shown , for example , that long stay and ‘ new long stay ’ patients ( those who have been in hospital between one and five years ) generally do well when they are discharged into the community . |
| 28 | When you substitute infinity in , just think well if it was about a million , what could we ignore ? |
| 29 | I lost the knack of starting last year with all the other pressures but I always qualified well and I was quick on the track . |
| 30 | The crews were still rowing well but as Cambridge 's bend began to end , Oxford drew level again . |