Example sentences of "well by " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Hoped to have something better by the evening . |
| 2 | 61 BETTER BY DESIGN |
| 3 | better by design |
| 4 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 5 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 6 | She might have made her point a lot better by picking up Mouse and dumping him in the garbage can — instead she responded with violence that was really out of proportion to Mouse 's attack . |
| 7 | No , better by far to restrict the creative work to two examples of ‘ Sequin Art ’ made by my two elder daughters , aged eleven and nine . |
| 8 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 9 | Eric of Mallion , which forms a connection between those early pathfinders and the dogs we know better by virtue of their being crowned as champions . |
| 10 | When Danny returned from the States Sean was well into ultra stalled hand plants assisted by 2 or 3 platform spectators so in a doubles act with Mark Abrook , Danny had to go one better by actually making a hand plant on Mark 's back whilst Mark was doing a backside grind . |
| 11 | Both cooperating ( pulling each other 's ticks off ) is pretty good , but there is still a temptation to do even better by refusing to pay the costs of reciprocating . |
| 12 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 13 | Better by far to invest while the going is good , to guarantee yourself an income , rather than rely on an uncertain future . |
| 14 | Many individuals stand to do better by leaving SERPS and entering a private pension arrangement into which part of their National Insurance contributions and those of the employer are invested . |
| 15 | Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp . |
| 16 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 17 | Hope I feel a bit better by then . ’ |
| 18 | For instance , an extra demand at home or abroad for goods made either cheaper or better by electronics will add to employment . |
| 19 | ‘ You could do better by telling what you know . |
| 20 | I would like you to get to know your body better by looking in the mirror and seeing the improvements in your shape as each day goes by . |
| 21 | Pain has to be faced , to be gone through , you ca n't make it better by getting into bed with me . ’ |
| 22 | ALTHOUGH I agree that many industries are run better by private enterprise than by the state , I think there should only be one bank . |
| 23 | There may be aspects of your business that are performed much better by non-competitors . |
| 24 | But he would be befriending him , and all others here , better by going than by staying . |
| 25 | The Eclipse is designed to help make your cooking better by making the process easier . |
| 26 | I should know better by this time , because not only do these things then happen , but my machines do something even worse . |
| 27 | The Government would serve us better by keeping the mines open , even if they are making a loss . |
| 28 | One of the members went one better by telling us she had made a shadow pleated skirt which , by mistake , was put into the ‘ whites ’ wash and finished up a quarter of its original size , ruined beyond restoration — so everyone though . |
| 29 | Get to know Steffi , or Stefan , Gabriela , or Boris , Andre , or Arantxa a little better by subscribing to a Tennis World fan club service for one year — you know it makes sense … |
| 30 | Channel four : ‘ better by design' |