Example sentences of "well [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 2 | Is it not better off as a hidden surprise to be discovered by the interested tourist ? |
| 3 | They include Another Coral , 8lb better off for the seven lengths he was beaten by Tipping Tim in the Mackeson , Martin Pipe 's Milford Quay , the progressive Sacre d'Or and the 1989 Champion Hurdler Beech Road . |
| 4 | If red meat is really what you want , you would be even better off with a well-trimmed steak . |
| 5 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 6 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
| 7 | Equally , from the tenant 's point of view the interest granted him under a tenancy at will is so precarious that he would almost always be better off with a fixed term to which the 1954 Act did not apply . |
| 8 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
| 9 | If the latter , we 're a lot better off with a restrained government than with a rampant one . |
| 10 | It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly . |
| 11 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 12 | Do n't you think you 'd be better off with a soft drink ? |
| 13 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |
| 14 | But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all . |
| 15 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 16 | YOU 'RE MILES BETTER OFF WITH THE DAILY MIRROR |
| 17 | You 'd be better off with the English one . ’ |
| 18 | If you have to eat a cold chip , you 're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one . |
| 19 | The Government 's claim that those on low incomes will be better off under the new scheme , or at least see their financial position protected , is unlikely to be borne out by events . |
| 20 | The existence in the benefit system to which they have access of a generous £10 weekly disregard on income from a top-up loan means that many students in those vulnerable groups will be better off under the new arrangements . |
| 21 | The better off within the working class have often been referred to as a labour aristocracy , though the term has been used differently by various social scientists . |
| 22 | Cardinals need a temperature between 73–79°F ( 23–26°C ) , and would be better off in a warmer tank of their own . |
| 23 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 24 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 25 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 26 | Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year . |
| 27 | They will then see what the man or woman has got left in disposable income each week ; if it 's two pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two pounds , if it 's two hundred pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two hundred pounds to hit the better off in the same proportion as the people at the bottom of the income level . |
| 28 | No other African became a bishop until well on into the twentieth century ! " |
| 29 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 30 | Jadeite , highly prized in modern China , did not appear there until well on in the eighteenth century . |