Example sentences of "well [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately personality testing is much less well developed than intelligence testing . |
| 2 | As we have seen , the response in England has been substantial ; in Wales , on the other hand , there has been very little reaction to the reports and teacher training for further education in the Principality is generally less well developed than in England . |
| 3 | The statutes made peasant communes rather than individuals responsible for redemption payments , with the result that an economically successful peasant was prevented from bettering himself quickly by peasants whose entrepreneurial inclinations were less well developed than his own . |
| 4 | This network was so well developed that when Captain Hugh Clapperton ‘ discovered ’ Kano in 1824 he was able to obtain cash from a local merchant in return for a bill of exchange on the British consul at Tripoli . |
| 5 | He was very small , sandy-haired , sharp-featured and with his sense of smell so well developed that it was rumoured that he had sniffed out a suicide in Epping Forest even before the animal predators got to it . |
| 6 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |
| 7 | Either of these faults means that the attacking technique is well developed before you move into it , and so your front barring arm or groin suffer accordingly . |
| 8 | The degree of splitting of the bone suggests equivalence to Behrensmeyer 's stage 2 weathering , but the degree of flaking is less : some flaking occurs , spreading out from breaks and splits in the bone , but it is not as well developed as seen in large mammal bone at weathering stage 2 ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | The human olfactory system , illustrated in Figure 1 , although not as well developed as in many animals , is nevertheless far more sensitive in detecting odours than any known instrumental technique and is capable of discriminating among many thousands of odorous substances , often carrying the memory of a particular odour for life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | O. clavigera can easily be distinguished from O. globifera by the following characters : the plates of the dorsal side are thin not as well developed as in O. globifera ; the spinelets of O. clavigera often have an enlarged rugose tip , those of O. globifera are all of one kind , low and rugose , nearly granuliform ; the apical and oral papillae of O. globifera are shorter and not as rugose as those of O. clavigera ; the oral shield is more regularly rhombic in O. globifera than O. clavigera and the tentacles scales of O. globifera are large rounded while those of O. clavigera are small and spine-like . |
| 12 | The waistline is usually the first area where fat accumulates , and so the presence of well developed and well defined abdominals is an obvious sign of an excellent physical state . |
| 13 | The literature is well developed and offers a wealth of suggestions . |
| 14 | Both testicles must be well developed and clearly visible in the scrotum. 2 . |
| 15 | Although there are still a number of problems to be solved , in contrast to the difficulties of comparing data reported for different spatial units , these aspects of data integration are fairly well developed and understood . |
| 16 | Almost everywhere in Britain the infrastructure is well developed and so new factories , shops and housing estates can spread almost wherever business people and planners choose . |
| 17 | In Hungary , Lake Balaton is larger than Lakes Geneva or Garda and is a well developed and long established holiday region . |
| 18 | By the early 1970s mixed-media tie-ins and marketing of records , TV series and books were well developed and would increase . |
| 19 | It is therefore vital that they are given the right sort of care , so they can grow up to be well developed and strong physically , mentally alert , contented and emotionally stable . |
| 20 | This family is characterised by the disk being ill-defined or constricted with the arms appearing to continue to the centre of the disk in some genera ; the disk may be covered with skin or a dense coating of granules ; the long and narrow radial shields ; the reduced papillae on the jaw with only the apical papillae well developed and the oral papillae small , like enlarged granules ; the genital slits situated vertically on the sides of the disk ; the arms long and covered with skin or granules . |
| 21 | A family with a rounded flat disk covered by small imbricating plates amongst which the centrodorsal and primary plates usually distinct ; the radial shields small , length less than half the radius of the disk , well separated from one another ; the jaw broader or as broad as long ; usually one sometimes two apical papillae flanked by 5–7 oral papillae on each side the distalmost slightly curved and extending beneath the largest oral papilla just proximal to it , it is possible that this distalmost papillae is part of the second oral tentacle pore ; the adoral shields large and wing-like ; the oral shield large , rounded triangular or arrow shaped , usually longer than broad ; the arms long and slender ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates well developed and contiguous at least proximally ; the tentacle pores moderately large each armed with one or two flat leaf-like tentacle scales ; usually three times long , erect arm spines , equal in length to two arm segments . |
| 22 | There was a well developed and long-lived post-Roman pottery industry in the area ( based on St Neots , Stamford and Ipswich ) and this means that , because the area is intensively ploughed , scatters of potsherds are revealed on former settlement sites . |
| 23 | Muscles are well developed and contain MYOGLOBIN ( a pigment which is an oxygen reservoir ) . |
| 24 | United Kingdom law was already well developed and complied with most ( if not all ) of the Directive 's provisions . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , when asked about other aspects of the wind turbines , such as their advantages in terms of pollution reduction and fuel conservation over other energy sources , their attitudes were fairly well developed and they were well informed . |
| 26 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 27 | As will be shown in this chapter , retirement was viewed ambiguously by working people who well realized that it distributes a variety of rewards and penalties , offering , for a minority , a period of welcome leisure in relative comfort , and , for the majority , a sharp drop in living standards with enforced idleness . |
| 28 | It was thus well manured and amply repaid any work spent on it . |
| 29 | In 1806 a well known American preacher , the Reverend Lorenzo Dow , addressed a crowded congregation in the new church at 5.00 am and Wesley records preaching once at Kilmoriarty at the same hour : ‘ the house was well filled and a little after six I cheerfully commended them to the grace of God . ’ |
| 30 | You may well think that it is a dead-end and therefore dig down towards it . |