Example sentences of "[adv] well [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 Guns were only a small part of the Sussex output , and much better known were the ornamental cast-iron firebacks much in demand for the more sophisticated housing of the middling and upper ranks .
2 Especially well known is Willis 's Learning to Labour , a study of cultures which working class children construct for themselves at school .
3 The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group .
4 I said no , I , I would hate to offend him because it 's all so well meant being a mother in law you have to watch it .
5 Benjamin Franklin s contribution to the identification of electricity in the form of lightning is well known , but not so well appreciated are the subtlety and simplicity of his apparatus and experiments .
6 The only consolation and the reason why Mrs Brodowitz was so well informed was that the man had been spotted by the military police and was now in prison .
7 Not so well known is a thirty-ninth folly , also paid for by Lord Cobham of Stowe , in the centre of nearby Buckingham .
8 So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ .
9 So well known were the acquisitive instincts of Roger-Bernard III , count of Foix , by 1300 that the treason charges made by Philip the Fair 's proctors against Bernard Saisset , bishop of Pamiers , included allegations that Saisset had promised to make Foix lord of the comté of Toulouse in 1295–7 , so that his power would then be feared from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees .
10 So well known were Dr Hannes Kaufmann 's left-of-centre views that when the Nazis seized power he immediately lost his job as a civil law court judge in Hamburg — because , as Hitler said : ‘ The Liberals are more dangerous than the Communists : they can think ! ’
11 So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years .
12 The results were beneficent , but less well handled were the reverse migration procedures ordered by Pomgol on 15 March 1922 .
13 Very much less well understood is how the genes control embryonic development .
14 Slightly less well appointed is the DSP-A500 ( £499.5 ) and DSP-E200 ( £349.95 ) , the latter having only three built-in power amplifier stages .
15 A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article .
16 While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level .
17 Less well known is the Journal ( Babington , 1897 ) which provides some detail of the 1841 journey , incorporating descriptive passages , anecdotal material and some botanical information .
18 The Don , Dee 's near neighbour can also produce superb sport with salmon ; but less well known is the fact that the Don is perhaps the finest trout stream in the world .
19 Less well known is that the Act also gives enforcement officers powers to deal with food premises and with equipment which is unhygienic and unsatisfactory within the context of the legislation .
20 Less well known are the various groups of explicitly anti-Darwinian evolutionists who developed alternative theories in the later part of the century .
21 At the memorial service at Blessington , Sir Nicholas Fenn , the British Ambassador , unveiled a plaque ; also well represented were RAFA Branches , the British Legion and the Irish Army Air Corps .
22 This odd looking engine named Ant ended its days at Hutch Bank Quarry but may also well have been the Ant that worked on the Brooks Quarries lines about Cloughfield .
23 In addition much of the associated housing has also been removed and replaced by dwellings which although sometimes materially better appointed are not always aesthetically or socially better .
24 On the other hand , if Coridon and Mopsa had originally been written in F major , for a soprano , it could perfectly well have been left in that key for Pate to sing ( an octave lower , of course ) , because it would go no lower than f .
25 I finally said the only thing I damn well wanted was for them to leave so I could get to the hospital .
26 The most well known is Tabasco sauce Pepper , types of p50 Pesto Alla Genovese p23/ A sauce of basil , garlic , Parmesan , olive oil and pine nuts for pasta Pilaf , Chicken p57 Pizza p25 Pork & Olive Casserole p45 Pot Roasted Beef with Mushroom & Cream Sauce p109 Prunes p61 Pulse vegetables p38/ Dried peas and beans , used extensively in vegetarian and wholefood cookery Pulse vegetables , varieties of p38
27 Possibly the most well known is HEARSAY II [ Lesser et al , 1977 ] .
28 There are , however , a small number of predatory species perhaps the most well known being the Crown of Thorns Starfish ( Acanthaster planci ) which has caused massive damage to many of the world 's reefs .
29 Nevertheless there are a number of DBMS , possibly the most well known being IDMS , which are of this type .
30 George Allison has already been mentioned , but even better known were Howard Marshall , the Test match commentator , Freddie Grisewood , later to chair ‘ Any Questions ’ , and Colonel Wakeham on rugby .
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