Example sentences of "[adv] [be] well [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has since been well cared for by Huyton officers . |
| 2 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 3 | Etosha has long been well regarded by her trainer and her belated debut in the John Holdrish Maiden Fillies Stakes was explained by a long-held aversion to starting stalls . |
| 4 | In Sweden , for example , the trade unions have long been well represented in government decision-making and have negotiated pay levels and labour practices much envied by their counterparts in other countries . |
| 5 | Yet the different types found on Jersey and Guernsey had long been well known in England , which had imported Jerseys ( under the Alderney name ) since at least 1789 . |
| 6 | She had obviously been well cared for throughout her illness — but then , Shiona had never for one moment doubted that . |
| 7 | The youngster , who had obviously been well cared for , has said her name is Debbie but is unable to give her surname or address . |
| 8 | Everything has obviously been well prepared both technically and musically ( not the remotest suspicion of a studio run-through ) , and the orchestra sound really fired up , which is more than one can say about a disturbingly large number of recordings which have emerged over the last few years ! |
| 9 | I do not want to make a meal of this , but the point has obviously been well made . |
| 10 | ‘ However , the bass feels pretty good , and it 's obviously been well set up . |
| 11 | They can merely be well expressed thanks , comments in newsletters , public congratulations , even sometimes a small but symbolic gift . |
| 12 | Constructing a false alibi is difficult , and the beginner would perhaps be well advised not to make the whole of a book depend on such a device . |
| 13 | If the 100-μm ridge is associated with the remnant , the latter 's distance could perhaps be better determined by the observation of the ridge at 21cm . |
| 14 | However , they continue : But it may perhaps be better understood as an analytical consequence of the Garfinkelian theory that the fit between organization and phenomena , between rules and their applications , is not determined in advance , but rather is the result of an ad hoc and context-sensitive process , performed by speakers ( by the use of shared " methods " ) , in which the recognition of the social act and the construction of interpretation of sequences of such acts are two sides of the same creative ( but nonetheless organized and accountable ) process . |
| 15 | ‘ She was obviously being well looked after and was really cheerful and smiling . |
| 16 | The type of household lived in is better considered a consequence of the stage they have reached in their life course than of their age per se ( Dale 1987 ) . |
| 17 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 18 | The way in which the Government have brought the north and south together was well spelt out by my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow , Rutherglen ( Mr. McAvoy ) , for Wansbeck ( Mr. Thompson ) and for St. Helens , South ( Mr. Bermingham ) . |
| 19 | Airlines had been used to link parts of empires together , regardless of economic cost , and the principle of the state and state airlines working together was well established . |
| 20 | The long term sequelae of infection on acid secretion have not been well defined but epidemiological evidence suggests that longstanding H pylori infection may result in a reduction of acid secretion through the development of atrophic changes in the gastric mucosa . |
| 21 | Recent studies have examined separately the influence of H pylori and age on both gastric function and histology but the complex inter-relationship between H pylori infection , gastric morphology , gastric secretory function , and ageing have not been well defined . |
| 22 | At one point in Vikram Seth 's novel in verse The Golden Gate ( Faber , 1986 ) , the author interrupts the narrative to tell us that his idea for the book had not been well received when he had mentioned it to a publisher : |
| 23 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 24 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 25 | So how we handle the foal is certainly going to make a difference between whether the mature horse will be friendly or not , and in my experience , horses that have not been well handled as foals are never as friendly , trusting , and confident as those who have . |
| 26 | As we have seen , however , gays have not been well served within this tradition . |
| 27 | There has already been a switch of emphasis away from sheltered housing for the elderly to other groups in special need , and what money has been available has been targetted to those areas which have not been well served in the past ( peripheral housing estates , remote areas and less attractive small towns ) , or to developments offering very special facilities ( eg sheltered housing for the elderly deaf ) . |
| 28 | Darby said the machine had obviously had heavy wear and not been well maintained : the ‘ d ’ , for example , was slightly twisted and the capitals in ‘ MacQuillan ’ did not sit firmly on the line . |
| 29 | The magnitude of complex carbohydrate malabsorption in exocrine pancreatic insufficiency has not been well quantified in the past . |
| 30 | As with other areas of craft practice , 20th century developments in British embroidery have not been well documented . |