Example sentences of "[vb infin] as well [subord] " in BNC.

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1 You should know as well as I do the public can be a very difficult master ! ’
2 There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules .
3 It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause .
4 Because of the recession , there is a prospect that more of that money will flow back out of Washington afterwards in refunds to taxpayers who did not do as well as in the past .
5 ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort .
6 One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves .
7 Third , you have to believe that they can do as well as you .
8 " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics .
9 ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner .
10 Roger did not do as well as hoped in his ‘ A ’ levels , but will probably go to Birmingham to do a BSc in Computer Engineering .
11 She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one .
12 We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year .
13 We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year .
14 The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said .
15 This bearish tactic does not work as well as in a stock market , for art works are widely dispersed , and decisions to buy or sell may be thoroughly unpredictable .
16 Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can .
17 Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision .
18 ‘ Bet it does n't work as well as in real life , ’ he replied .
19 Compute-bound packages that require the Unix engine to emulate Intel 's floating point will not run as well as on an Intel/MS-DOS platform .
20 The dragonfly has so many ommatidia that it can see as well as some vertebrates .
21 Her agent , Cleveland County Coun Alan Sykes , told The Northern : ‘ Things do n't look as well as they might be . ’
22 Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed .
23 And I will willingly show the place tomorrow , and if he has any question to ask me now , I will answer as well as I may .
24 Did n't sell as well as it ought to have , that book .
25 And oh , when we do something else , and my hands say to my feet , ha hang on , you can walk as well as they can , let's try it .
26 What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ .
27 I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet .
28 If Jason Peake can regularly play as well as he did on his debut on loan from Filbert Street on Saturday , Pool need to sign him quickly .
29 Actually they do do n't play as well as they used to .
30 What I 've told the players is we 've got to go up and play as well as we can to beat a team like Blackburn .
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