Example sentences of "[was/were] not well [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1984 Kirklees Report showed that ethnic minority clients were not well represented among CAB clients at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The ‘ Thorneycroft Proposals ’ were not well received by the Americans , but they were prepared to consider them . |
| 4 | Mark 's quarterly reports which highlighted the plant problems were not well received by the Chairman — according to his personal staff . |
| 5 | Such images , it may be surmised , were not well received by the nobility , who continued to commission portraits of conventionally austere appearance . |
| 6 | Yet even his findings were not well received by the financial community . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Consumers , the report found , were not well informed regarding risks to health , and the mounting practice of eating raw fish was described as " disturbing " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The details of his work were not well known within the US embassy in Rabat . |
| 12 | The weak nuclear force was not well understood until 1967 , when Abdus Salam at Imperial College , London , and Steven Weinberg at Harvard both proposed theories that unified this interaction with the electromagnetic force , just as Maxwell had unified electricity and magnetism about a hundred years earlier . |
| 13 | Well , Mrs Goreng had a pretty good grasp of English-and her French was improving , too — but she was not well versed in the nuances of behaviour . |
| 14 | ‘ It was not well done to be caught without my bow , ’ Allen objected . |
| 15 | The label ‘ Hunting junkies ’ was not well received by his friend , the ‘ Trainee King ’ . |
| 16 | The Kingman Report was not well received by right-wing Conservatives because they wanted a return to the traditional teaching of Latinate grammar , and the Report came out firmly against this . |
| 17 | The decision was not well received by those Americans who believed that their allies should concentrate on the provision of conventional forces . |
| 18 | Collectively , however , the service was not well regarded in the schools since it was seen to be enact many of the tendencies referred to earlier . |
| 19 | Ballet was not well established in South Africa at that time . |
| 20 | Whilst AIDS was not well included as an issue in the campaign , it was clearly at the back of every civil servant 's mind as the details of the Clause were worked out . |
| 21 | This passage was written , incidentally , at a time when he was not well informed about Klee 's own ideas . |
| 22 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities the mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
| 23 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities their mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |