Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 2 | It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option . |
| 3 | Since it is battery-powered , it can be used on location shoots as well as in the studio . |
| 4 | Ramazzini described the symptoms of poisoning from the lead which was regularly used by house painters , plumbers , glaziers and potters as well as by the extremely short-lived wretches actually employed in lead works : " First their hands become palsied , then they become paralytic , spenetic , lethargic , cachectic and toothless , so that one rarely sees a potter whose face is not cadaverous and the colour of lead . " |
| 5 | But Indian manager Amrit Mathur claimed he had no objections , saying : ‘ There is no evidence that a team plays any better if everyone is in bed by 8pm . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No man practises so well as he writes . |
| 7 | With cooler air , more cloud , and so less sunshine , even grass grows less well than on the lowlands . |
| 8 | As Miller puts it : ‘ Education is a source of economic growth if it is anti-traditional to the extent that it liberates and stimulates as well as informs the individual and teaches him how and why to make demands upon himself . ’ |
| 9 | They can be tailored to cater for differing retirement ages as well as for varying contribution levels , which explains why some organisations are able to offer early retirement on very attractive terms . |
| 10 | I guess the machine blows as well as sucks . |
| 11 | Copes reasonably well when stressed , but can be rather sensitive at times . |
| 12 | It was used for making vessels based on bronze forms as well as for ornaments . |
| 13 | The study explores the priority Heads of Government have attached to publicity , and their attitudes to official secrecy and leaks as well as to the political accountability of news media . |
| 14 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it fits as well as it ever will . |
| 16 | In fact , Yorkshire have some good players and if Tendulkar plays as well as he can , he will provide extra runs at a lively tempo , so giving Martyn Moxon more chances to be in control of the game . |
| 17 | If you are nervous , console yourself with the thought that the initially nervous speaker often performs far better than the stolid chap with no nerves . |
| 18 | The information is needed for the compilation of trade figures as well as for VAT calculations . |
| 19 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 20 | ‘ I told Jim to believe that he competes significantly better than most players . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 22 | Nobody speaks as well as you do . ’ |
| 23 | The research is concerned with both the trappings of formal organisation structures as well as with the substance of how these are actually managed to achieve specific results . |
| 24 | If the focus is that the school is a good place for all , that it gives as well as takes , then it can gain a great deal of positive publicity . |
| 25 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 26 | Even if this classification scheme could be improved upon , it clearly serves far better than the traditional indicators in identifying those areas most in need of extra resources , in order to compensate for poverty and deprivation , through educational and personal social service provision . |
| 27 | This is undoubtedly a specialization which developed from the condition where there are many separate branchial openings as seen , for instance , in lampreys , anaspids , cephalaspids , galeaspids and thelodonts as well as in cephalochordates ( one likely sister group of craniates ) . |
| 28 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 29 | He works much better when he has plenty of space around him , and when his name is , metaphorically or literally , the only one above the title . |
| 30 | NIGEL Clough knows perhaps better than anyone how England are flirting with a losing game that can become a terminal habit . |