Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] well as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite stiff for the grade , with several moves that leave you wondering if you are climbing as well as you thought ! |
| 2 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 3 | Not that that would stop the terrorists from acting pretty well as they pleased . |
| 4 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 5 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 6 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 7 | Corydon , speaking as well as he can in Mira 's defence , observes : |
| 8 | But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’ |
| 9 | But f***ing Newcastle … we did n't get this much parise our first season back … and I think we were doing as well as they are . |
| 10 | The two eldest kids are doing as well as they can and are bearing up as best as can be expected , ’ she said ‘ But my youngest boy has n't left my side since it happened . |
| 11 | Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended . |
| 12 | Mcallister does seem to be overshadowed by him when he is on the pitch , looking for him to take the lead , provide the inspiration etc which strach is no longer doing as well as he once did . |
| 13 | cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected |
| 14 | They are n't renowned for becoming millionaires after their footie days are over , so I suppose it 's a case of doing as well as you can while you can . |
| 15 | Are your investments performing as well as they could be ? |
| 16 | Are your investments performing as well as they could be ? |
| 17 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal . |
| 19 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 20 | Ever since Cuntona joined scum , all of a sudden he s a class player — despite still not playing as well as he did for Leeds . |
| 21 | At the moment Ian is playing as well as he has ever played in my time at Carrow Road . ’ |
| 22 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 23 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 24 | If you have experienced adverse symptoms this week , you may not be feeling as well as you did at the end of last week . |
| 25 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 26 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |