Example sentences of "do [conj] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 2 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 3 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 4 | Mr Andrew Cammish , representing Shaun Williams , had told them : ‘ Justice must be seen to be done as well as be done and it is my duty to bring any particular irregularity to the court 's attention . |
| 5 | The allocation of labour to particular activities in the contract programme is a skilled task which requires both a knowledge of what is to be done as well as the likely outputs of the people employed . |
| 6 | In many spheres of public life justice should be seen to be done as well as be done , and officials should not only be impartial but be seen to be above reproach . |
| 7 | Mr Edmond Alphandery , a spokesman for the centre-right , says these firms would have done as well or better in private hands . |
| 8 | Solid boards would do as well but would make a much heavier bellows . |
| 9 | ‘ Hence , when money wages are rising , workers may , rightly or wrongly , credit such rises to unions and hope that by beginning or continuing to support them they will do as well or even better in the future ’ ( Bain and Elsheikh , 1976 , p. 64 ) . |
| 10 | A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women . |
| 11 | He did n't do as well as Gene Sarazen in the first round at the postage Stamp , though . |
| 12 | Now it is true that , as we have seen , the GCSE is intended to test what a candidate can do as well as what he knows and understands ; it is intended , therefore , that the oral part of the examination in languages , including English , shall have a more central importance . |
| 13 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 14 | You can only do as well as your knowledge and experience allow which is just the same as the rest of us . |
| 15 | But Searle does not show why the computer would not do as well as the Westerner , in conditions where he or it can learn meanings . |
| 16 | If the real interest of all team members is pastoral and relational , they wo n't do as well as the group which contains a variety of gifts . |
| 17 | ‘ The only thing that glass does n't do as well as metal is that metal generates some sound simply by moving up the string , and I really like that kind of character . |
| 18 | The Weavers ' Company would do as well as any other in the circumstances , especially since his cousins , as silk weavers , were already members of it . |
| 19 | This may be a craft you can do as well as machine knitting and if not , a quiet afternoon or evening teaching yourself to crochet will be time well spent . |
| 20 | Sociologists had long been interested in why many working-class pupils did not do as well as middle-class children at school . |
| 21 | The crux of the argument — the impetus of the Girls into Science and Technology ( GIST ) , Women into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) and INSIGHT schemes — is that more girls must take up science subjects ; girls must do as well as boys . |
| 22 | Would n't they do as well as the friends we made |
| 23 | ‘ If it comes to it , ’ he said , ‘ a sand-filled sock would do as well as anything . |
| 24 | Now Mill concedes that the guardian , the despots might manage the affairs of the state tolerably well that there 's no reason of principle why a very enlightened despot could n't do fairly well , although Mill claims that no despot could do as well as a good democracy . |
| 25 | We all wan na do as well as the next person sitting next to us do n't we ? |
| 26 | Mr Dinkins said he wished ‘ that we could do as well as Tokyo does ’ in keeping crime low and hoped to learn how Tokyo has largely avoided New York 's problems of high crime , drugs and unemployment . |
| 27 | Then of course there 's this insurance thing to do as well when David 's er free and sorted out |
| 28 | As a TO one wants to do as well as one can , and the paradox is that the better one does in a sense the worse it is for the voluntary movement , who should be persuaded to do the maximum rather than the minimum . |
| 29 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 30 | There was an enormous amount of planning to do as well as writing the various protocols and policies which would enable me to function as an ENP . |