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

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1 Words presented visually or auditorily are less well recalled when they are similar sounding than when they are different sounding .
2 While the human eye is extraordinarily good at doing this , the process by which it does so is not well understood and hence can be only imperfectly imitated .
3 However , because of their desire to promote the idea of history as a scientific discipline , the Annales school have not been equally well disposed to all aspects of the past .
4 Also , previous versions of OS/2 have not been that well received either by the press of users — it was , to say the least , memory and disk hungry , and came in a number of flavours so that it was difficult to know quite which one you needed .
5 I know that some folk have had cases from America which have not been too well done , and , in fact , felt that they were over-embalmed and no make-up .
6 But the rate of loss of forest threatens to outstrip any of this basic work , and practical plans are hampered by the fact that until recently the birds have simply not been very well studied : not much is known about them .
7 Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say .
8 Though there has been a clear public responsibility for the long-term residents of mental hospitals , public responsibility for those discharged has not been so well established .
9 Preclinical staff usually have busy schedules and may not be particularly well oriented to clinical matters .
10 The majority of domains , however , do not share these characteristics and may not be so well represented within the LOB corpus .
11 The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion .
12 Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy .
13 Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’
14 One wonders whether he would still be so well remembered had he lived his monastic life in the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire in Roussillon .
15 So perhaps Mill 's claim is that the pleasurableness of life is all that matters but that this can not always be so well promoted by increasing the quantity of low level pleasure as by obtaining lesser amounts of high quality pleasure .
16 Erm we have produced a study pack which has been extremely well used within the church erm and is still being extremely well used .
17 Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets .
18 It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character .
19 Mind you , it wo n't be so well done . ’
20 It 's particularly important because I , I think that these er strategic plans are n't being terribly well received in the D O E and they will only succeed if there is er solid agreement to present .
21 The book has then been very well illustrated with well designed coloured graphics and good photographic selections to provide a book that can either be dipped into or read with satisfaction from cover to cover .
22 So the suburban districts then were very well served with the old tramcars .
23 So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited .
24 Walter Bagehot 's The English Constitution , published in 1867 , constituted a classic description of a Constitution that had not previously been so well sketched , yet a Constitution that was to undergo significant modifications as a result of the passage that very year of the Second Reform Act .
25 The worrying point is that the England squad had never been so well prepared generally , but were specifically ill-prepared to counter the decisive factor — spin .
26 The office had never been so well run .
27 Time had never been so well watched over .
28 I had never been very well coordinated physically as a child .
29 Despite the best intent of the Air Services Regulations , each airline will therefore be extremely well placed to ‘ fight off ’ any intrusive and unwelcome competition .
30 ‘ He is fine at present , ’ said Balding , who is running the gelding as an eight-year-old , being of the opinion that he will never be so well treated in the National by the handicapper again .
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