Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] well as [pron] " in BNC.

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1 You should know as well as I do the public can be a very difficult master ! ’
2 There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules .
3 It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause .
4 One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves .
5 We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year .
6 We 've got ta do as well as we can and we 've got ta try and get promotion this year .
7 ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort .
8 ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner .
9 She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one .
10 Third , you have to believe that they can do as well as you .
11 " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics .
12 The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said .
13 Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball .
14 ‘ Oh , you will do very well as you are , child , ’ she replied .
15 Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can .
16 Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision .
17 Her agent , Cleveland County Coun Alan Sykes , told The Northern : ‘ Things do n't look as well as they might be . ’
18 Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed .
19 And I will willingly show the place tomorrow , and if he has any question to ask me now , I will answer as well as I may .
20 Did n't sell as well as it ought to have , that book .
21 And oh , when we do something else , and my hands say to my feet , ha hang on , you can walk as well as they can , let's try it .
22 I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet .
23 What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ .
24 Actually they do do n't play as well as they used to .
25 erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football .
26 What I 've told the players is we 've got to go up and play as well as we can to beat a team like Blackburn .
27 If Jason Peake can regularly play as well as he did on his debut on loan from Filbert Street on Saturday , Pool need to sign him quickly .
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