Example sentences of "well for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Boro battled well for a hard-earned point in a poor game and they remain six points behind Cambridge but with four games in hand .
2 Paul Merson is playing with a maturity which augers well for a rich future to an England career that started so well in Czechoslovakia last month .
3 When Bernard came out of hospital he did not walk very well for a good long time .
4 All of this does not mitigate well for a prospective owner to take on the airframe in an easily-delivered and/or operational manner .
5 He finished fourth to Baies and The Thinker at Haydock last week , running well for a long way .
6 Supertop ran well for a long way in the season 's opener at Doncaster .
7 I prefer the consistent VIKING ROCKET , who ran well for a long way behind Captain Dibble in the Scottish National at Ayr .
8 Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus .
9 ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’
10 This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’
11 ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’
12 Moving off , before moving off always use your mirrors , but look round as well for a final check , signal as necessary before moving out , move off only when you can do so safely without making the road user change speed or direction right
13 Hood : a well-shaped hood which closes down well for a snug fit .
14 The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans .
15 All went well for a short while , but then his childhood respiratory problems returned .
16 Cost control will serve us well for a single year but it wo n't give us a company that will survive into the next century .
17 ‘ If he is n't , he can swear pretty well for a dead person , ’ said Sacco , sagging to the floor .
18 they can , however , opt to receive Chartered Builder as well for an annual subscription of £5.00 .
19 More company accountants are aware that the City needs better information on R&D — which augurs well for an improved dialogue between industry and the City
20 The war was going well for the galactic empire .
21 He wrote : ‘ It is just as well for the future historian to know how the Club , which in time may become famous , was really started ’ .
22 This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population .
23 While there are instances of seemingly unnecessarily high pricing , some at least probably arise more from inefficiencies than from exploitation — which of course does not bode well for the long-term survival of those establishments .
24 An important product , Retardmac , is coming under increasing pressure due to the Government 's desire for permanent re-instatement of roads after patching and this does not bode well for the long-term future of the product .
25 The company 's Paris division is reputedly achieving similar levels of success , which bodes well for the new outlets due to open in Frankfurt and Madrid by the end of the year .
26 He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there .
27 Now fully recovered from a hairline crack of the shin , Robson spoke to the England manager , Bobby Robson , this morning to tell him that he had suffered no reaction from the Portsmouth game and was fit and well for the Polish trip .
28 The half-backs , James Pinnington ( scrum-half ) and his partner Matthew Coe were , as they were last season , most impressive and the excellence of the pack augurs well for the coming winter .
29 If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration .
30 Things did n't bode too well for the four-set clause in my contract .
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