Example sentences of "well a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 2 | I ca n't just ring up and say hi two of my , well a friend and an acquaintance |
| 3 | That well a part |
| 4 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 5 | Although the judgment of how well a film shows what normally happens at a junction was used differently in Study 3 and in Groeger and Chapman ( 1992 , in preparation a ) there was no evidence in either case that this was related to recognition sensitivity . |
| 6 | Moreover , measures such as the Gini coefficient treat inequalities at different points in the income distribution as equivalent , whereas many development economists have argued that the goal of economic aid should be to meet the basic needs of all the citizens in any country ; this usually involves focusing on how well a society is doing by its poorest members . |
| 7 | There are very pressured days , says Jackie , when she has several visits as well a clinic , when she goes up every front path praying both mum and babe will be problem-free . |
| 8 | It does , it measures exactly how well a machine performs the Landmark tests . |
| 9 | What is needed is a performance measure that gives some idea of how well a machine performs on non-maths applications ( such as text editing ) and on maths intensive applications ( Spreadsheets etc . ) |
| 10 | And then you have a de , well a devil woman cos , cos German 's wo n't play it . |
| 11 | There 's this bloke his well a chum of his actually got his statement and said this ca n't be blinking right ! |
| 12 | Some are veritable campuses where students can learn about logarithms as well as lobs , fine arts as well a s fitness training . |
| 13 | This opportunity provided a welcome break from the purely botanical work to which I was accustomed , as well a s a chance to make the most of my botany/zoology background . |
| 14 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 15 | This may be important in assessing how well a writer illustrates an argument . |
| 16 | Won a national competition — well a competition in a national magazine — by imagining how to put together three exceptional outfits for three occasions : a job interview , meeting a partner 's parents for the first time , and addressing a conference . |
| 17 | Well a return of 3 points from the 3 games played was disappointing , despite gritty performances at Newcastle and Scum . |
| 18 | Clarissa enquired from her bed if the gentleman had a black shirt on , and Charles was in the middle of telling her that it was n't a man at all , but a woman , well a girl , and quite a pretty one too if treasonable , when the record , a 78 of course , ended . |
| 19 | Even silver for the major World Fairs , which did extremely well a couple of years ago , was weak . |
| 20 | Well a couple of times . |
| 21 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
| 22 | when I got there , several times he used to scruffle into the er packing room and come out with those two , three of those well a couple of those large sheets of brown paper that they pack , yeah , pack the few boxes in |
| 23 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |
| 24 | So I said well a couple approached my wife here on on Saturday . |
| 25 | Well a voucher 's cash |
| 26 | Well a word processor is much much better to use because it 's so easy to you 've got ta change everything that follows , whereas you know , with a with a word processor you can add paragraphs about words in change words . |
| 27 | Well a word about next Friday 's match then , that 's the big one , the one that everyone 's waiting for against Kings Lynn . |
| 28 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 29 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 30 | Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit , to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation . |