Example sentences of "well [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I better explain that symbiosis is popularly defined as a relationship between two differing life forms for their mutual benefit . |
| 2 | Bernard , if we have any time to spare , better to stand and gaze at the name of the very street we live in , ‘ Mafeking ’ , and contemplate its significance . |
| 3 | DONs are mainly for big cities , and those are not an ideal locale for every enterprise ; manufacturing plants , for example , are clearly better sited where land is more plentiful . |
| 4 | He would be better employed as beadle , or as taskmaster in the Saxburgh Union . ’ |
| 5 | The physical mechanism underlying the proposed link between solar output and cycle length must be better understood before cycle length can be used with confidence as a proxy for irradiance changes . |
| 6 | Many of these factors appear in spoken language interpreting , but they are better understood and training aims to overcome the weaknesses of the individual interpreter . |
| 7 | The person or creature — one of your sub-personalities — starts to argue with you , telling you all the reasons why you are wrong , and why you would do much better to believe that life is full of suffering ! |
| 8 | Turnpikes were not always better kept than parish roads . |
| 9 | We were sitting watchin' the news , the world 's in a mess The poor and the hungry , a world of distress Herpes , Aids , the Middle East at full throttle Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle . |
| 10 | For every Cardinal Newman there are hundreds for whom such words might be better described as egotism or pig-headedness . |
| 11 | I should n't think Edouard wants any further investment just now — but if he did , darling , if you have , you know , a little pin money , then , you could n't be better advised than to- ’ |
| 12 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 13 | Unfortunately personality testing is much less well developed than intelligence testing . |
| 14 | Although the art of painting was not as well developed as architecture and sculpture , there were , nevertheless , a number of Slav artists from the Adriatic coastlands who displayed considerable talent and whose works are to be found in church frescoes and other paintings on both the Italian and eastern shores . |
| 15 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 16 | At the key Harrogate carpet fair this month , our new ranges were well received and order intake has improved . |
| 17 | In newly constructed areas application of the Woonerf principle had become well proven and routine by the early 1980's . |
| 18 | In neural therapy , the importance of scars as blocks to the flow of energy is well recognized and injection of a scar with local anaesthetic is an alternative to electro-acupuncture . |
| 19 | The report stressed the need for a safety culture , saying that , the danger exists that an organisation 's safety policy , plans and monitoring arrangements which appear , on paper , to be well considered and comprehensive may create an aura of respectability … |
| 20 | Meanwhile I am exploring the edges of a continent where most of its people are clustered and , except in city and suburb , well scattered where settlement is at the mercy of geography , as indeed is the peroipatetic topographer , constantly on the lookout for some assembly of landscape elements that can be turned into pictures and — because of indoctrination by a European culture — pictures of a particular sort . |
| 21 | To the east , well fenced and warning hung , a sheer drop of two hundred feet fell down to the golf course . |
| 22 | It was built er It has to be It had to be very well built and firm , because then , when it was used for the cow for the er sheep , usually , that best hay was left for the sheep . |
| 23 | Keep aster plants well watered and control mildew |
| 24 | These are potentially valuable rights for many senior executives , but you will do well to remember that litigation is apt to be an uncertain , protracted and depressing business . |
| 25 | Best quality potatoes look clean , well shaped and firm , free from cuts , blemishes , greening and rots . |
| 26 | This was a well researched and market estimated project : for the reasons given above it ended with the sale of EMI to another company . |
| 27 | Outside , the day was already well advanced and sunlight glimmered on the waters of the canal below , the towpath already thronging with people . |
| 28 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 29 | The misguided teacher might well believe that self-expression was all that was needed ! |
| 30 | I well remember that night , as I tossed and turned , unable to sleep ; for try as I could , that length of wall refused to fit into my jigsaw . |