Example sentences of "not [adv] well [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 .
2 But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's .
3 A placebo controlled study has , however , been carried out in active distal ulcerative colitis by Angus et al , and showed that the drug was not significantly better than placebo .
4 Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel .
5 For those who 've taken the decision to turn their lives around prevention is n't always better than cure .
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