Example sentences of "[be] [verb] well [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Gloucestershire have not been faring well in the Benson and Hedges Cup .
2 There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place .
3 Skelton Village and the area of D thirty nine and D forty are located well within the general extent of the statutory York greenbelt , as defined by Policy E Eight Four of the North Yorkshire County Structure Plan , approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment .
4 " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place .
5 It says two Darlington pubs the Hole in the Wall and Lascelles Park are operating well under the new leases and that they are a unique way of putting pubs on a proper commercial footing .
6 It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you .
7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's books , for example , are selling well on the street stalls ; so are the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and the poet Osip Mandelstam .
8 ‘ The play is a farce , ’ wrote The Times 's critic , ‘ but it openly exposes the violent hatreds , frustrations , and revenges which in normal farce are buried well beneath the surface .
9 At the same time I think some people are going well over the top in slagging off Wilko .
10 Bulbs are ideal partners , as their flowers are displayed well against the pulmonarias and their dying foliage will be smothered by the expanding leaves .
11 I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked .
12 Team manager of Kazakstan says the weather is hot , but his riders are doing well on the climbs .
13 Burmans are wanting to go into business more — a little group of Burmese businessmen have formed an industrial corporation ; young Burmans are doing well in the petrol and kerosene retail trade .
14 ‘ If teams are doing well in the League , Cups and Europe then they are forced to play so many games .
15 Most individual actors do not rely upon their own judgment of whether they are doing well in the action , but refer to certain members whose real or even fancied reactions are taken as the expression of binding judgments of propriety .
16 Any more raids and you 'll be stepping well over the line .
17 The welfare point is a little complicated , because of course you have to catch up the dogs , and many of those dogs will be killed , but the dogs can be treated well during the time they are held .
18 Carrick 's 1000 Yorkshire wickets were expected to be supplemented well before the end of the summer by 10,000 Yorkshire runs , a double achieved only by five other men in the county 's history : Haigh , Hirst , Illingworth , Wainwright and the incomparable Wilfred Rhodes ( 3597 wickets , 31,098 runs ) .
19 For the predators this timing is just as critical and this can be seen well in the relationships between the piratical Arctic skua , its usual victim the Arctic tern , and the small fish on which they both depend .
20 Baits need to be anchored well on the bottom and left for long periods and leger tactics are more likely to succeed than the float .
21 The paper needs to be packed well into the tin for a smooth edge , and is best used double thickness for greater insulation and easy removal .
22 The sail should be pulled well across the body and swiftly sheeted in .
23 Dalziel grunted and thought that Jacko must be doing well at the moment to be in , for him , so light-hearted a mood .
24 Threats by the Labour party to renationalise privatised firms or to introduce ‘ social ownership ’ dented the share prices of privatised companies , whenever the Labour party appeared to be doing well in the opinion polls prior to the 1987 election .
25 Muhtarram , who finished fourth , looked to be travelling well at the three-furlong marker but had no answer to the first two when the pressure was applied .
26 As the inventor of the ‘ Nicol prism ’ , his name will continue to be remembered well beyond the world of optical physics , but details of his early life are hard to discover .
27 Analysis of the moment-by-moment changes in performance over a ten-minute period has shown that while the sleep-deprived subject may be performing well at the beginning , all responses are slowed towards the end , as well as frank lapses occurring .
28 The north of England , the midlands , Scotland , Wales and Ireland will be served well by the facilities at the new interchange .
29 In the UK we seem to be lagging well behind the USA in the construction of databases on hazardous sites and especially hazard events such as those involving toxic releases .
30 This suggests that any bid would be pitched well above the suspension price .
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