Example sentences of "[adj] be well [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The troubles of the nuclear industry in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 are well known : a slowdown or halt to construction of new plants , plus the closedown earlier this year of the nuclear power station near Erevan in Armenia because of safety worries after last December 's earthquake . |
| 2 | Seven of the eight are well known Black communities and the sites read like a civil servant 's check list of those places where the state expected an uprising ( excluding those with Inner City Partnerships already present ) , yet no race specific dimension was added to their brief . |
| 3 | The net effects of all this are well described by the Northern Trade Union Labour Left ( 1984 ) culminating in efforts to establish a ‘ Regional Executive ’ on explicitly corporatist lines . |
| 4 | Of the various neutrophil functions — namely adherence , aggregation , orientation , locomotion , and chemotaxis — few are better defined and understood than the sequence of events when the neurtophil comes into contact with a chemoattractant . |
| 5 | When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals . |
| 6 | Some are well prepared and have taken the trouble to find out how to conduct a selection interview , especially if they are highly trained personnel officers . |
| 7 | Some are well known but new technology brings new problems . |
| 8 | Some are well known to us . |
| 9 | The quality of these troops varies considerably , and although they are all brave some are better equipped than others . |
| 10 | Some of these have been appropriately criticized , but I consider that the characters listed in Box 2 are well established as hominoid synapomorphies shared by Proconsul . |
| 11 | The English were well informed about the manoeuvres that had made him Emperor , and Charles II 's Poet Laureate , John Dryden , wrote a play about the struggle for the succession in Delhi . |
| 12 | Mansell 's few were well armed with placards and banners demanding their hero stay with Williams . |
| 13 | Table 2 shows that this is well documented for Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 14 | This is well recognized by parents who are invariably concerned that their children make friends with the ‘ right group ’ of people . |
| 15 | The impact of all this is well summarised in the DES booklet The National Curriculum , from Policy to Practice . |
| 16 | This is well demonstrated in the 14-year prospective Framingham Study , for individuals younger than 50 years the risk of coronary heart disease increased over 5-fold with increasing serum cholesterol levels from 4.6–8.7 mmol/l ( Kannel et al , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | This is well demonstrated in the chimney pot and flower pot pictures , the slightly toppling cottages and the rollercoaster carriages . |
| 18 | This is well demonstrated by Gumperz ( 1982 : 85 ) in discussing an earlier study of Hindi and Punjabi used by college students in Delhi ( Gumperz 1971 ) : " The two codes here appear indistinguishable phonetically and almost identical in both syntax and lexicon . |
| 19 | This is well exemplified in Fokine 's choreography fur the first Nocturne in Les Sylphides , where it can be said that the corps de ballet are marking the overall rhythm lasting sixteen or thirty-two bars , whilst the three soloists represent the shorter rhythmical phrases lasting four to ) eight bars . |
| 20 | This is well exemplified by the ancient Chinese fang ding vessel , shown in Figure 8.8a . |
| 21 | This is well illustrated by the photographs of its construction preserved in the India Office Library in London . |
| 22 | This is well illustrated by a famous decree made by Barbarossa , in which he ruled that a fire raiser who had taken refuge in a castle must be delivered to justice by those who had sheltered him , but not if he were the lord of the castle-owner , or his vassal , or his kinsman . |
| 23 | This is well illustrated in The Unpopular Patient ( 1972 ) by Felicity Stockwell . |
| 24 | This is well illustrated by Jerrome ( 1981 ) who explained the significance of friendship for middle class women in later life . |
| 25 | This is well illustrated in Singer 's own context of the abortion debate . |
| 26 | This is well illustrated by Willesden High School in North London , which in recent times produced both Phillip DeFreitas and Chris Lewis , but which ceased to play cricket four years ago . |
| 27 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 28 | This is well illustrated by Pappajohn , wherein the Canadian Supreme Court , purporting to apply Morgan , held that the direction on mistake need only be put where there was some evidence beyond the mere ipse dixit of the accused to support it , as indeed there was in Morgan . |
| 29 | This is well illustrated in the above-mentioned award of an excess seat to the CDU in 1987 . |
| 30 | The two groups may also have very different sets of values , and this is well illustrated by Forsythe 's ( 1980 ) study of the Orkney community of Stormay ( a pseudonym ) . |