Example sentences of "[vb infin] well [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he know better than doctors , nurses and the other health service staff whose life work has been delivering the service ? |
| 2 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 3 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
| 4 | If people can choose their ‘ partners ’ freely , and if honest types can spot each other in advance , co-operators will be able to interact selectively with each other — and will therefore do better than cheats . |
| 5 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
| 6 | Water lilies do not grow well if water is falling onto their leaves . |
| 7 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 8 | That offer is still open and I think it could work well if people could be bothered . |
| 9 | McGregor supported the ideas of Maslow about man 's hierarchy of needs , and suggested that a Theory X approach will work well where man is concerned with his physiological and safety needs . |
| 10 | Overall , a random sample of females will consistently perform better than males on tests of verbal ability , while males invariably outperform women on tests of mathematical reasoning and spatial relationships . |
| 11 | Small cetaceans would probably not fare better than birds after exposure to excessive quantities of organochlorines. indeed dolphins and porpoises may be particularly vulnerable because they apparently have a lower capacity for PCB degradation than birds . |
| 12 | Solitary confinement is recognized to be one of the most psychologically damaging punishments that can be imposed upon any individual and if , like Robinson Crusoe , we are subjected to an enforced exile , whilst some people will no doubt cope better than others , few will willingly choose isolation or loneliness as a favoured way of life . |
| 13 | ( For Bottome herself says : ‘ No one could write better than Ezra when he was not trying to score off T.S . |
| 14 | I bet Zeneca will prove better than BT long-term . |
| 15 | Perhaps Daaé can sing better than La Carlotta . |