Example sentences of "were [adv] well [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were extremely well looked after by Per Sorum , a sprightly 70-plus year old who had a beautiful house in Aasen . |
| 2 | The figures also demonstrate how well matched are the action and control samples : that in both places they were well matched on age , proportion with an involved relative/ friend , proportion in owner-occupied housing , and on OBS score ; they were less well matched on gender and on proportion without an inside lavatory ( though the difference was not great ) , and least well matched on marital status and on proportion living alone , with the Ipswich control sample and the Newham action sample being more likely to be married and ( therefore ) not living alone . |
| 3 | The Liverpool West Indian and African traders were especially well organised through a committee which instructed Liverpool delegates giving evidence before parliamentary and Privy Council committees , dominated the common council and mayor 's office in Liverpool and , by means of local government , funded propaganda and maintained a stream of pro-slave trade petitions . |
| 4 | The waiters , who were obviously well accustomed to their elderly clientèle moved at a brisk trot . |
| 5 | The 1984 Kirklees Report showed that ethnic minority clients were not well represented among CAB clients at the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The ‘ Thorneycroft Proposals ’ were not well received by the Americans , but they were prepared to consider them . |
| 8 | Mark 's quarterly reports which highlighted the plant problems were not well received by the Chairman — according to his personal staff . |
| 9 | Such images , it may be surmised , were not well received by the nobility , who continued to commission portraits of conventionally austere appearance . |
| 10 | Yet even his findings were not well received by the financial community . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Consumers , the report found , were not well informed regarding risks to health , and the mounting practice of eating raw fish was described as " disturbing " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The details of his work were not well known within the US embassy in Rabat . |
| 16 | Many plants were in fact native , such as Red Campion , Silene dioica , aquilegia and violets , and because they were already well adjusted to our climate , found no difficulty in springing up from every square inch of the ground . |
| 17 | Small arms have been a speciality of Birmingham since the seventeenth century , when gunsmiths were already well established in the town , and in 1813 an Act of Parliament gave Birmingham the right to have its own proofing authority . |
| 18 | In Britain it came from the craft unions which , due to the early date of industrialisation , were already well established in the workplace . |
| 19 | Their study showed that the Anglo Saxon groups who were already well established in the area ( and whose parents came from similar backgrounds ) indulged in French and Traditional American furniture and ornate wall mirrors . |
| 20 | The Mortons were already well established in textiles and had invented a power loom which his own family company , ‘ Alexander Morton & Co ’ were unable to develop . |
| 21 | There were traces of the same fine-boned look about him , but his features were already well masked by what was likely in the course of time to become a solid layer of self-indulgent fat . |
| 22 | Gassendi 's empiricist views on the derivation of our ideas from sense-experience , on natural philosophy and its foundation in carefully considered observation , and his stress on the explanatory value of Epicurean atomism , were already well known to Hobbes and others when they were formally introduced into England via the publication , in 1654 , of Walter Charleton 's Physiologia Epicuro-gassendo-Charltonia : a Fabrick of Science Natural upon the Hypothesis of Atoms , Founded by Epicurus , Repaired by Petrus Gassendus , Augmented by Walter Charleton . |
| 23 | Most of them dealt with love and passion and violent death , and the subjects were already well known to the crowds from newspaper reports . |
| 24 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 25 | The foot and ankle were also well supported inside the boot . |
| 26 | They were also well known for cricketing flannels and white doeskins , as well as more usual products . |
| 27 | The other group consisted of horse and cattle-herding peoples of the steppes and mountain pastures of the southern margin of Siberia who , while wearing animal-skin garments in winter , were also well acquainted with textiles . |
| 28 | In terms of land , the early Merovingian kings were probably well endowed with estates and palaces , many of them perhaps originally part of the imperial fisc . |
| 29 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 30 | We do not know how far these findings are generalisable at a national level , but we are reasonably confident that the study practices were representative of the totality of fundholding practices in the Oxford region and that the fundholding and control practices were fairly well matched on those variables , such as distance from provider units , which might have affected referral patterns . |