Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] well as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed . |
| 8 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Bet it does n't work as well as in real life , ’ he replied . |
| 14 | Her agent , Cleveland County Coun Alan Sykes , told The Northern : ‘ Things do n't look as well as they might be . ’ |
| 15 | Did n't sell as well as it ought to have , that book . |
| 16 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Actually they do do n't play as well as they used to . |