Example sentences of "well [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they did 5% less well than in 1988 , and their attempts to castigate high spending Labour metropolitan authorities seemed to backfire . |
| 2 | In another premature general election in June 1989 Fianna Fáil performed less well than in 1982 and Haughey was obliged to form a coalition government with the Progressive Democrats [ see pp. 36739 ; 36820-21 ] . |
| 3 | Robbie was terribly tempted to ask how he would describe the glamorous-looking Petula , so perhaps it was just as well that at that moment they came in sight of the first lock . |
| 4 | Well that at any rate would change . |
| 5 | I am by no means inclined to consider Diodorus a mere copyist of his sources , and I know only too well that by stylistic criteria one could prove that Sir Ronald Syme is the author of some of the books written by his pupils . |
| 6 | I know very well that in many cases this is in the mind of the palaeontologist rather than in the rocky facts themselves . |
| 7 | Everything would be going well except for that damn business [ of the lost wallet ] . |
| 8 | Well except for third party , how long |
| 9 | Like I said , I do quite a lot of other stuff as well and for that I use things like little Fender amps , and I 've got a Peavey Profex which I use with a MIDI foot controller . |
| 10 | ‘ At least Farrah is safe and well and for that we are grateful . |
| 11 | The game lasted three days mainly because Sampson batted so well and for five hours , making 81 ( 68 runs with the bat and 13 wides ) . |
| 12 | Nochlin controls this extraordinary range of material well and with great wit . |
| 13 | His father rejoiced to see him , and noted that Jacks was ‘ looking remarkably well and in great form ’ . |
| 14 | The Foreign Office said a British official who visited Paul Ride in prison yesterday found him well and in good heart . |
| 15 | Craig Young of the support team says they 're coping very well and in all they 're cycling 1147 miles … running 30 miles and swimming 8 miles … in Scotland they had to run through five foot snow drifts on Ben Nevis |
| 16 | Michael , of course , had to make periodic visits to the Christie hospital , but he kept very well and in excellent spirits . |
| 17 | However what does seem clear is that non-traditional students are capable of performing at least as well and in some cases better than traditionally qualified students throughout British higher education . |
| 18 | Agriculture was beginning to change dramatically as well and after two hurricanes which almost wiped out the flourishing egg industry many farms built more substantial hen houses out of concrete blocks and the poultry were kept inside all the time in what was known as deep litter houses . |
| 19 | Well cos of that cheque |
| 20 | All went well until about half way through the demonstration when fumes from some hot oil wafted into the smoke detector above the hob and set off the hotel 's fire alarm . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , in both experiments there was a clear tendency for risky exemplars of risky junctions to be recognized well but for risky exemplars of less risky junctions to be recognized badly . |
| 22 | John used to enter very simply , did his class ‘ not very well but with complete concentration , and between exercises , when others would talk , adjust their clothes , or wipe the sweat from their faces , he stood perfectly still and watched closely as the next group went through the exercises ; Margot Fonteyn would do that too . ’ |
| 23 | Recently , fashion has been very safe , but now it 's becoming more aggressive , it 's making more statements , and the French are going to do well because of that , ’ says Guy Tolson . |
| 24 | Well because of past experiences , Chairman , that 's all . |
| 25 | Can I make the point that if you do n't get to the parents of kids kids , before the end of summer term you could be jeopardising the chances of what they 're doing in the SATS because if you get to the parent erm in the beginning of the spring term and say you know , Fred is not doing particularly well because of this the parents are then in a position to do something about it but if you actually tell them once , basically the stable doors closed what can |
| 26 | Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes . |
| 27 | But more than 14 years after the Milwaukee Project started , and long after its spokesman 's claims have been absorbed into the consciousness of editors , politicians , judges , school boards , parents and social theorists , as well as into countless text books and lecturers ' notes , no scientific account has been published . |
| 28 | The vessel was probably made in the East Celtic area during the second or first century B.C. The representations give some insight into the deities imagined at the time as well as into some of the rituals involved in their worship . |
| 29 | Sainsbury launched its Eftpos in November 1987 and now accepts Switch as a debit card at terminals in all 243 of its stores which operate barcode scanning , as well as at all 40 of its petrol stations . |
| 30 | The universe would therefore look roughly the same at all times as well as at all points of space . |