Example sentences of "be [verb] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |
| 2 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 3 | The band are well past their 150th gig of the tour now and Mark insists that they 're playing better than ever : ‘ Everyone plays great and we all get on really well … ’ |
| 4 | SCHMEICHEL : ‘ We 're playing better than last season ’ |
| 5 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 6 | Some animals are preserved better than others ; groups of animals with long life spans leave fewer fossils than those with short lives ; and seasonal migrations may upset the pattern . |
| 7 | ‘ Things have n't been going well since my England call-up , ’ said Ferdinand , who thought he should have won a late penalty after colliding with Chris Woods . |
| 8 | I 'm glad to say that tickets for the rock and roll evening are going well although there are still a few left for late bookers |
| 9 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 10 | If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests , then major land reform is essential . |
| 11 | Firms within the zones seem to have been doing better than equivalent companies elsewhere . |
| 12 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 13 | and it 's been running well since I just |
| 14 | British Rail have no problems to report and the local buses are running well as well . |
| 15 | ‘ You are doing well where you are , Paul ; I am proud of you . |
| 16 | ‘ You are doing well where you are , Paul ; I am proud of you . |
| 17 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 18 | Furniture and carpet stores are doing better than most , as are grocers , chemists , footwear and leather shops . |
| 19 | 17–20 You are doing better than average , but you need to concentrate on balancing your activity/relaxation quotient . |
| 20 | Consequently the animals are doing better than average . |
| 21 | And there 's been quite a bit of success in in that area both of the newspaper companies er , are doing better than last year and er Longmans for instance expect er expect their operating cash flow erm their working capital rather to be lower this year than last year by by year end . |
| 22 | A man 's voice will be heard better than a woman 's voice . |
| 23 | There is no good reason — feminist or other — why cohabiting couples should be treated better than married ones . |
| 24 | Therefore , words will be reported better than single letters , i.e. there will be a word-superiority effect . |
| 25 | need a new kitchen , du n no about need a new back door , our kitchen looks totally different to them , oh I know what it is , they 've got their door to the living room in the kitchen , that 's what makes a lot of difference do n't it ? but it could be designed better than that |
| 26 | If there are likely to be difficulties about accommodation for yourself as the daughter at home , after your parent 's death , contact should be made well before this event is imminent with the Housing Manager of the local council for advice , and you might write also to the Housing Corporation Head Office , Maple House , 149 Tottenham Court Road , London W1P 0BN , who will send a free directory of registered Housing Associations and other housing schemes in the area of your choice , so that you can begin forward planning . |
| 27 | But it can only be performed well if there is a profound democratization of the structure of accountability . |
| 28 | Everything would be going well except for that damn business [ of the lost wallet ] . |
| 29 | THE CLASS of a locomotive can often be detected well before it appears on the scene simply by the sound of its whistle . |
| 30 | Most of the disputes within the DUP can be understood better if they are seen as ‘ personality ’ clashes rather than if one attempts to find major ideological rifts . |