Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh adv] well [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , at least is the assumption , but there have been disagreements about how well it works . |
| 2 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 3 | If " Creole " is a second dialect rather than a second language , delaying its acquisition until adolescence will still have a limiting effect on how well it can be learned . |
| 4 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 5 | It was a measure of how well they had done that he even considered such an awful thing . |
| 6 | The idea is to compare a store 's performance not just with its historical record , but with some more objective measure of how well it should be doing . |
| 7 | It is a necessity because it provides the opportunity for reflection on how well you have carried out various tasks and whether there are better ways of doing things . |
| 8 | A ratchet is a mechanism by which investors provide management with an incentive , in the form of equity enhanced in proportion to how well they perform . |
| 9 | Items in the tests are not selected on the basis of how well they discriminate among students , i.e. they are not norm-referenced . |
| 10 | sort of try two or three styles then sort of how well you got ta think about your headdress and that first , have n't you ? |
| 11 | Once you have decided your policy and put it in place , keep an eye on how well it 's working . |
| 12 | The survival of the 1947 constitution without major change since the US occupation ended , is taken as evidence of how well it fits with the attitudes and expectations of contemporary Japan . |
| 13 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 14 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 15 | The secret of survival and success at college can be very largely defined in terms of how well you organize your time . |
| 16 | Subjects were then asked to give a written rating to each of the junctions of how well they previously knew it . |
| 17 | The environment you choose to learn in plays a crucial role in how well you progress . |
| 18 | Pensioners are warned to take care , but there 's a limit to how well they can protect themselves |
| 19 | The insularity of managers is also sharply criticised : " Businessmen have a keen sense of how well they are looking after their customers . |
| 20 | Smith 's application of Smelser 's model is forced to rely on an assortment of different examples and there is little sense of how well it applies to separate case studies . |
| 21 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 22 | These are not positive issues about how the economy works but normative issues about how well it works . |
| 23 | ‘ After we lost in Moscow , I ushered the team back into the locker room and locked the door before any administrators could get in and give them a load of bull about how well we had done to run the mighty red machine so close . |
| 24 | And I heard a lot about how well it worked last time . ’ |
| 25 | In these sorts of circumstances , the teacher 's predominant practical concern is not with the learning experiences of individual students , but with the overall ‘ instructional flow ’ of the lesson with how well it is proceeding to its intended conclusion and maintaining order as it does so . |
| 26 | If the skirting is painted in a different colour to the walls , do n't forget to stick a smaller sample of the skirting colour next to the wall colour so you have an idea of how well they work together . |
| 27 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |
| 28 | There is not , as we might have expected , a simple decline in how well it remembers as time passes . |