Example sentences of "not [v-ing] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the order is wrong , or if the plants appear badly dried , shrivelled , broken or in similar bad condition , now is the time to say so , and not weeks later , when they are not growing well or are dead , as so many complainants do ! |
| 2 | ( Experimental farming on Michel 's persuasion and advice ; it 's not doing well and the brother is taking fright . ) |
| 3 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 4 | She felt that he was not doing well because he was not trying hard enough , and that his teachers were not making him try hard enough . |
| 5 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 6 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 7 | Mary became worried Alex was not progressing well and took him for tests . |
| 8 | The therapeutic centre may be used typically to observe and monitor families which are not functioning well and to teach adequate parenting skills where these are lacking . |
| 9 | A referral may be made , for example , where the s8 order is not working well or fulfilling its original purpose . |
| 10 | With a month to put together a programme of events for this ‘ Reading Festival ’ , things were n't going well and the organisers approached London club owner Dave Bilk — yep , Acker 's bro — who put them on to B & H. |