Example sentences of "well [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 2 | The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools . |
| 3 | From his present position , Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup . |
| 4 | As Dysart 's employee and Mallender 's daughter , who could be better placed to smell a rat ? ’ |
| 5 | Nothing is better designed to galvanise a people , unify it , strengthen it . |
| 6 | No company , after all , is better equipped to design a jamming device for a particular missile than the company that made the missile in the first place . |
| 7 | " We 'd maybe better try to get a rope on him . " |
| 8 | The architecture leaves you grasping for the Nikon , the local leave you smiling and the atmosphere lifts you — and with the river silently splitting Buda from Pest , what better place to conclude a whistle stop tour along the Danube ? |
| 9 | ‘ As he sat here watching the storms , the crashing waves , the evils of the elements , what better place to plan a tale of dark mystery and murder ? |
| 10 | What better place to sample a slice of moist tangy apple cake and to raise a glass of good sparkling apple wine than in the shade of an apple tree . |
| 11 | " I suppose we 'd better start having a look along the banks soon , although I must say I 'm in no particular hurry . |
| 12 | ( The trouble with that was that so many All Blacks and Springboks and older British Internationals were at the University he would be better advised to wait a year or two . ) |
| 13 | Nobody could have been better qualified to construct a consensus , even if it had to be temporary , from the new and angular alternatives that were now being proposed for the future of secondary schooling . |
| 14 | In such cases , if what is being transferred is a part only of the business , the employee may well prefer to assert a claim to continue employment with the transferor in the retained parts of the business this was the stance of the employees in Katsikas . |
| 15 | Ah 'm bloody well goin' to have a look at Chanchán . ’ |
| 16 | I suggest the King 's Fund would be well placed to undertake a monitoring exercise to evaluate the success of programmes of positive action to date . |
| 17 | Similarly , contextual support and existing levels of shared understanding about routines mean that the adult is well placed to endow a child 's utterance with meanings which extend or elaborate on those expressed . |
| 18 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 19 | The Women 's Environmental Network , a non-political pressure group , said women — who were responsible for three-quarters of all decisions about shopping — were well placed to make a stand against companies which overwrap , adding to both bills and rubbish . |
| 20 | Initially Kidd had intended returning Down Under , but an attractive offer from Division Two side Sundays Well has prompted a change of heart . |
| 21 | For some teachers , " database creation " might well bring to mind a class of using microcomputers as an efficient means of collating , storing and retrieving information about the local enviroment , about 19th century village life or about the class itself . |
| 22 | Well played Whitlow a lot of ball back to Lewis as er a bit half and half . |
| 23 | I 've done it now , and I 'm damn well going to make a success of it , Mr Hunter . |
| 24 | I well remember asking a conference of 150 heads of residential schools for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties ( EBD ) for research suggestions . |
| 25 | Harold was becoming more and more irritable with his wife 's bouncing in and out of bed and he declared that if the mice saw the kitten they might well decide to make a meal of it . |
| 26 | As the new group begins to develop a clear idea of its own aims and objectives they might well decide to produce a video film of their own to explain their story . |
| 27 | The man was in civilian clothes , yet , in this city thronged with soldiers , he had a confidence that suggested he might well have worn a uniform in his time . |
| 28 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 29 | The er the honourable gentleman might well have seen a copy of the er the provisional report which has been prepared but that provisional report is er the same basis as the report er which was presented to er Westminster city council er and then we were n't talking er a difficulty of er two million pounds created , created as a direct result of government under funding of the police authority there , we were talking about the expropriation of millions of pounds to line the pockets and to further the political interests of his party and I did notice the honourable gentleman er vociferous in his condemnation of Westminster city council or any of the other tory controlled city councils . |
| 30 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |