Example sentences of "[be] not well [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they have been very , very bad and are not well connected inside the Church , the man with the wart gobs all over them , people chuck potato peelings at them and then they are turned out into Strathclyde Road in their underpants . |
| 2 | Whereas very many Empiricks and unskilful and ignorant Men … do abide in our City of London … which are not well instructed in the Art of Mystery of Apothecaries , but … do make and compound many unwholesome , hurtful , deceiptful , corrupt and dangerous medicines and the same do sell … and daily transmit … to the great peril and daily hazard of the lives of our subjects … |
| 3 | Books and articles about language are not well represented in the bibliography . |
| 4 | The views of Luria , and the findings of more recent work by Ferreiro on South American children , are not well supported by the outcomes of Jones 's Edinburgh study , where the developmental picture that emerges is less neat and tidy than Ferreiro 's work would lead one to expect . |
| 5 | The ‘ Thorneycroft Proposals ’ were not well received by the Americans , but they were prepared to consider them . |
| 6 | Mark 's quarterly reports which highlighted the plant problems were not well received by the Chairman — according to his personal staff . |
| 7 | Such images , it may be surmised , were not well received by the nobility , who continued to commission portraits of conventionally austere appearance . |
| 8 | Yet even his findings were not well received by the financial community . |
| 9 | The majority of interviewees were not well informed about the services provided by the CSSU , and , partly as a consequence , the services were considered to be inadequate . |
| 10 | An important clue was his reading of Malthus on population , which allowed him to see that the ‘ struggle for existence ’ caused by population pressure would act within the species , killing off any individuals who were not well adapted to the conditions and allowing only the ‘ fittest ’ ( i.e. best-adapted ) individuals to survive and breed . |
| 11 | Although in retrospect it might seem a vain hope to disguise ourselves as a motor yacht , we were not well known in the area and there were , after all , quite a few converted HDML 's about in those days , so we removed a few obvious identification marks from the ship including our uniforms , flew the red ensign and settled down to wait . |
| 12 | The details of his work were not well known within the US embassy in Rabat . |
| 13 | As women make up over 60 per cent of these categories their position in the labour market is not well represented by the wage structure data . |
| 14 | Poor readers have a tendency to produce spelling errors which are non-phonological in that the sound structure of the intended word is not well represented in the error ( see Camp and Dolcourt , 1977 ; Frith , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | But this aspect of their playing is best heard in the first-movement cadenza , for elsewhere their individual and ensemble skill is not well favoured by a fairly reverberant , high-dynamic recording in which the balance allows them to be overshadowed by the orchestra . |
| 16 | According to Hanan ( 1969 ) , a venture team is characterized by being relatively small , by being composed of members from various functional areas working full-time on the project , by being willing to take risks , by having a broad objective that is not well defined at the start , by having sufficient resources , by being segregated from the permanent organization , and by having great freedom with a minimum of corporate rules and regulations . |
| 17 | I think the most important thing is to try and find that gap in the market that is not well trodden by a lot of other people — to find something which you can do which is different from all the rest of them . |
| 18 | Although indentation testing as a measure of elastic modulus is not well known as a laboratory test method it is the basis of many hardness tests used in industry particularly for softer materials such as rubbers , where the indentation made under a standard load is large enough to be easily measurable . |
| 19 | The salesperson should open with a smile , a handshake and , in situations where he or she is not well known to the buyer , introduce himself and the company he represents . |
| 20 | may be delayed when dementia sufferer lives alone , or is not well known in the community ( eg crowded city areas ; living in multi-storey blocks , or has recently moved to a new area ) . |
| 21 | In contrast the drug appears to dissociate much faster from sites 6-8 , although this region is not well resolved on the gel . |
| 22 | The common law is not well adapted to the use of standard terms because their use is inconsistent with a freely negotiated bargain . |
| 23 | This species is not well suited to the heated aquarium . |
| 24 | Well , Mrs Goreng had a pretty good grasp of English-and her French was improving , too — but she was not well versed in the nuances of behaviour . |
| 25 | Collectively , however , the service was not well regarded in the schools since it was seen to be enact many of the tendencies referred to earlier . |
| 26 | Whilst AIDS was not well included as an issue in the campaign , it was clearly at the back of every civil servant 's mind as the details of the Clause were worked out . |