Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Users who have commented that , " It should look for phrases " or " Why does it do it word by word ? " can only be answered by saying that phrase searching often does not work very well because many books are not described in the catalogue by the phrases which searchers use . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Many of us do not sleep as well as we might , because we are unable to relax when we go to bed . |
| 10 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 11 | Pc Kelly told the jury he could not breathe very well and tried to make himself comfortable . |