Example sentences of "[be] not well [verb] [prep] " 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 | Another French-based hotelier , Stephen Sharp , proprietor of Les Hirondelles , added : ‘ They are not well received in France . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | Ribose ring puckers are not well defined at this resolution , and were not specifically restrained during refinement , but deviate little from their original C2'- endo conformation in the initial model . |
| 5 | They are not well developed in terms of a national framework , compared with social workers and occupational therapists . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If you are not well cared for , it is the fault of the master of your household , ’ she said primly . |
| 7 | The piano works of Igor Stravinsky are not well represented on CD , so the re-issue of Michel Béroff 's recordings is to be welcomed with open arms . |
| 8 | Books and articles about language are not well represented in the bibliography . |
| 9 | In addition to their role as refuse removers , these crustaceans also provide a valuable food source for some fish , particularly Mandarins , which are next to impossible to maintain for long periods in aquaria which are not well stocked with inverts and living rock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some authorities provide hostels for older children who need some care but not the full care of a family group home , but on the whole the needs of young workers and older school children are not well catered for . |
| 12 | The characteristic that courses for career women , courses reclaiming the curriculum on behalf of women 's history and culture , and courses providing useful knowledge and skills for women reconstituting their traditional roles have in common is the recognition that some women at least have expectations , aspirations and preoccupations which are not well catered for in the mainstream provision of adult education . |
| 13 | People who refuse to care for themselves , people who are a danger to themselves or others , and people who have no insight into the fact that they are seriously ill are not well catered for by a system which is focused on needs-led services where the consumer 's view is taken seriously in assessment and in provision . |
| 14 | History knows a cynical law : that in all lands politicians dislike ecclesiastics who interfere and therefore , when influencing who is to be a new bishop , prefer not to have bishops too practical and too effective ; and a respectable way of having ineffective bishops , the only respectable way , is to have otherworldly bishops , who live to God and spend much time in prayer and are not well informed on matters of this world . |
| 15 | Miscue analysis entails a systematic record and evaluation of children 's ‘ errors ’ when reading aloud from texts which are not well known to them and which are not at their reading frustration level . |
| 16 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 17 | Chimps , whose vocal chords are not well adapted to human speech , have discovered how to communicate using deaf-and-dumb language ; again , this is an incredible achievement . |
| 18 | Regrettably , most overseas hotels are not well equipped for disabled holidaymakers . |
| 19 | The 1984 Kirklees Report showed that ethnic minority clients were not well represented among CAB clients at the time . |
| 20 | Clegg has examined the reasons for this in the early 1930s and suggested that employers were not well organized at this time and that there were fewer jobs being lost in the early 1930s than in the early 1920s . |
| 21 | The ‘ Thorneycroft Proposals ’ were not well received by the Americans , but they were prepared to consider them . |
| 22 | Mark 's quarterly reports which highlighted the plant problems were not well received by the Chairman — according to his personal staff . |
| 23 | Such images , it may be surmised , were not well received by the nobility , who continued to commission portraits of conventionally austere appearance . |
| 24 | Yet even his findings were not well received by the financial community . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Consumers , the report found , were not well informed regarding risks to health , and the mounting practice of eating raw fish was described as " disturbing " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The details of his work were not well known within the US embassy in Rabat . |
| 30 | 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 . |