Example sentences of "well [conj] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are thin and lean may fare less well than their plump counterparts at times of shortage . |
| 2 | Intermediates could see even less well than their imperfect ancestors , and it is no consolation that they are building better eyesight for their remote descendants ! |
| 3 | Of course there 's no one more supportive when the chips are down , and no one is prouder of you when you 've done well than your old mum … . |
| 4 | Ironically , he was shot for doing his job well , so well that his acute observation almost certainly saved lives . |
| 5 | Razzle , Zephyr 's mother , came along as well and her outgoing nature provided the balance . |
| 6 | My granny could speak it well and my great granny she could speak it and read it . |
| 7 | Richard Harden , who batted particularly well until his fractured hand , is the vice-captain and must be a strong contender . |
| 8 | As well as its unparalleled choice of about 70 different champagnes , Oddbins now boasts around 50 tempting imitators . |
| 9 | As well as its unparalleled accuracy , Illustrator handles type exceptionally well , has a built-in graphing function , and comes with Adobe TypeAlign , Type Manager , Separator and Streamline utilities . |
| 10 | The depot and its locomotives have a high place in the Southern enthusiasts ' hearts and Boocock has brought together a collection of pictures that illustrated the life in and around the depot as well as its varied locomotive stud out and about on the system 's metals . |
| 11 | While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels . |
| 12 | Following the Harmel Report members agreed that NATO should have a political role , negotiating for détente with the eastern bloc , as well as its traditional defence role . |
| 13 | He was sovereign , and he was the leader of the whole Christian outreach as well as its energising power . |
| 14 | As well as its new LaserJet network printers and network boards launched at the beginning of the month , Hewlett-Packard Co added four new high-end production-capacity printers , the HP 5000 series . |
| 15 | Fenna is the dark force of the imagination as well as its golden dancing ; Fenna is chaos as well as order , and brings , on fiery dragon breath , the full danger of the chasm . |
| 16 | Early the following year , the Hopewell was loaded once more with harvests of cotton and indigo as well as its principal cargo , 9,500 pounds of tobacco , and she set sail from the harbour with her sails reefed against the season 's squalls and a small crew on board , under James Lariot as captain . |
| 17 | The latency of the response to cholera toxin as well as its prolonged effect depend on its mode of action as mentioned above . |
| 18 | As well as its general indications in anxiety , depression , and problems with relationships , counselling has been advocated for smoking cessation , modification of diet , alcohol misuse , postnatal depression , addiction to tranquillisers , and high risk sexual behaviour . |
| 19 | As well as its anti-microbial activities , an anti-proliferative function has recently been shown for L1 and tentatively ascribed to its inhibition of casein kinase II . |
| 20 | As well as its apparent willingness to take on board proven independent software technologies , the company is also making its own products available on other platforms . |
| 21 | She uses an isolating varnish to ensure that the paint she applies can be removed without trouble at some later date — when , for example , the fashion might be to display the historical vicissitudes of the painting as well as its aesthetic freight . |
| 22 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 23 | Seligman and Yellen take the theory further , in mapping the psychological reality of dreaming on to contemporary neurophysiological evidence of brain functioning during sleep , accounting for the emotional quality of dreaming as well as its visual content . |
| 24 | It now seems resigned to abandoning further developments on the proprietary Quatro range and 680X0-based Targon systems it inherited from the Nixdorf side of the business , as well as its mid-range Intel-based MX line , in favour of the Mips-based RM Unix products . |
| 25 | It rims the experimental sites at Winfrith in Dorset and Dounreay in Scotland as well as its central laboratories at Harwell . |
| 26 | The papacy had been born in the ancient world and owed many of its traditions , as well as its administrative functions , to late imperial Rome . |
| 27 | By 1960 , Sisson was a top Civil Servant ( 'civil to everyone , and servant to the devil' ) and had published a treatise called The Spirit of British Administration , memorable for its irony as well as its broad view of the subject . |
| 28 | It is a scene of national psychopathology that has its humorous moments as well as its deplorable aspects . |
| 29 | Stanfords map and travel bookshop in Covent Garden , London , has installed a computer system to manage its day-to-day sales and stock as well as its worldwide mail order operation and catalogue production . |
| 30 | His Zoonomia must ever be cherished for its poetic delights as well as its remarkable meditations on the origins of things . |