Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 2 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 3 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 4 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 5 | Because of the recession , there is a prospect that more of that money will flow back out of Washington afterwards in refunds to taxpayers who did not do as well as in the past . |
| 6 | Roger did not do as well as hoped in his ‘ A ’ levels , but will probably go to Birmingham to do a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This bearish tactic does not work as well as in a stock market , for art works are widely dispersed , and decisions to buy or sell may be thoroughly unpredictable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Users who have commented that , " It should look for phrases " or " Why does it do it word by word ? " can only be answered by saying that phrase searching often does not work very well because many books are not described in the catalogue by the phrases which searchers use . |
| 11 | Compute-bound packages that require the Unix engine to emulate Intel 's floating point will not run as well as on an Intel/MS-DOS platform . |
| 12 | Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed . |
| 13 | In any event , in colonial Vietnam reformists did not fare much better than revolutionaries . |
| 14 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 15 | Branson was warned by another member of the party that this would not go down well and , sure enough , was told by the butler the following morning that he was no longer welcome . |
| 16 | This did not go down well and I was nearly ejected from the cab . |
| 17 | Pc Kelly told the jury he could not breathe very well and tried to make himself comfortable . |
| 18 | I 'll , I 'll ask this other girl who I do n't know so well but I 'm sure if she 's going that way , she , you know , she 's in that area anyway . |
| 19 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | erm When we 've last played Oxford erm we did n't do very well and we were still in the sort of infancy if you like , under sort of Clive 's leadership . |
| 26 | I mean I 'm gon na try and give , the first two guys and er Mike who came in , they did n't do very well cos they did n't actually mention that bit and it did n't flow from then on , you 've got ta make the point , you know , did you find that er well not did you , that 's bad phraseology , I 'm sure you found this beneficial which of the areas of the five tonight actually interest you the most do that bit and then go in with the fact that you actually mentioned earlier on that you do work on a recommendation basis . |
| 27 | You ca n't do any better than this ? |
| 28 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 29 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 30 | ‘ Bet it does n't work as well as in real life , ’ he replied . |