Example sentences of "well [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ah 'm bloody well goin' to have a look at Chanchán . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Initially Kidd had intended returning Down Under , but an attractive offer from Division Two side Sundays Well has prompted a change of heart . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well played Whitlow a lot of ball back to Lewis as er a bit half and half . |
| 10 | I 've done it now , and I 'm damn well going to make a success of it , Mr Hunter . |
| 11 | I well remember asking a conference of 150 heads of residential schools for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties ( EBD ) for research suggestions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They might as well have assaulted a wall of blades with their bare hands . |
| 19 | He could well have made a throne for a Medici or a table for the Brighton Pavilion , and he will surely be making pieces in the 1990s that will be starting in their modernity . |
| 20 | Assuming the trustees use the loan to acquire Newco shares which they then distribute to employees ( relying on the Revenue 's press release of 5 December 1990 to ensure the trust does not suffer a capital gains tax charge ) , they will not be able to repay the borrowings , in which case Newco might as well have made a gift of the necessary funds to the trustees at the outset . |
| 21 | He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 . |
| 22 | You know the government may well have given a priority for special needs |
| 23 | The reduction in the nature conservation interest will probably have been slight and reintroduction of light grazing may well have prevented a decline in floristic diversity in some upland , species-rich grasslands traditionally subject to such grazing . |
| 24 | The Smiths may well have attained a state of parody but , amazingly , it did n't matter . |
| 25 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 26 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |
| 27 | He might as well have recited a passage from a Navy field manual . |
| 28 | The strong-bodied American , with his rugged features , had spoken with a quiet simplicity ; and as he 'd watched him and heard him , Morse thought he could well have enjoyed a pint with the fellow . |
| 29 | Erm well it 'll be useful I think for you , I me , assuming that peoples ' timetables may well have changed a bit since er , the beginning of last term it 'll be useful if you |
| 30 | But for those who could receive a smattering of instruction at home , or who had spent a short while at day schools in their infancy , they may well have nourished a plant that might otherwise have ceased to grow , or even withered . |