Example sentences of "not [verb] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pensioners have not fared better than other groups and targetting has led to massive poverty traps ’ . |
| 2 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 3 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 4 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |
| 5 | Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted . |
| 6 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
| 7 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 8 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 9 | If Anselm with so many claims to respect could not do better than this , there could be no hope except in forgery : this was to be the next step . |
| 10 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |
| 11 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 12 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 13 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 14 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 15 | Water lilies do not grow well if water is falling onto their leaves . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side ! |
| 18 | retained direct control of the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ might not work well if the new lines had to be separated administratively from the Corporation system , so they decided to set up a subsidiary company as they had done in other areas . |
| 19 | Some of the textured pavement and warning tiles did not function well and some caused difficulties for the non-handicapped , as when snagging high heels . |
| 20 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 21 | Small cetaceans would probably not fare better than birds after exposure to excessive quantities of organochlorines. indeed dolphins and porpoises may be particularly vulnerable because they apparently have a lower capacity for PCB degradation than birds . |
| 22 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 23 | ( Experimental farming on Michel 's persuasion and advice ; it 's not doing well and the brother is taking fright . ) |
| 24 | 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 — ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The original price to subscribers was four guineas unbound , but it did not sell well and was remaindered at 36s. a copy . |
| 28 | The fact is that the song did not sell well because , let's face it , it was a bloody awful record … ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mary became worried Alex was not progressing well and took him for tests . |