Example sentences of "[art] [noun] do well [subord] " in BNC.

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1 The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council .
2 I think in the end the tortoise does better than the hare .
3 Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] .
4 Or , does the economy do better if they act as gardeners , nourishing the soil , pulling out the weeds , selecting the plants ?
5 If , for example , we find that the flowers in one corner of the garden do better than those in another corner , we make various comparisons between the two sites , and perhaps reach the conclusion that it is the lack of sunshine on the second site that is causing those flowers to do so badly .
6 Delighted to see Norwich and the Arse doing well tho' , hope they go all the way .
7 On most of these the boys did better than the girls , especially on drawing and visualization items .
8 As : When the 11+ tests were widely held , every year girls as a group did better than boys as a group on all three tests , including the one for arithmetic .
9 The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted .
10 Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse .
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