Example sentences of "as well [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't give them names , which was just as well because they both had to go to be killed . |
| 2 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 3 | The BBC believe that no one does sport as well as they do — and they may be right . |
| 4 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |
| 5 | The time is fast approaching when a more accurate division of mankind will be between those who are patients , knowing despair as well as they know the lines grooved into their own hands , and those who are psychiatrists , so helplessly and irrecoverably sick that they believe that , serenity can be achieved by swallowing a few polychromatic biochemicals ! |
| 6 | There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’ |
| 7 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 8 | For the first time , things are n't working quite as well as they used to . |
| 9 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 10 | The RCM understood this as well as they understood the realities of keeping up the supply of foster parents . |
| 11 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 12 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |
| 13 | They do n't , and wo n't , know that he talks Greek as well as they do . |
| 14 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 15 | Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can . |
| 16 | We know from years of experience that we are not capable of reading other people 's problems as well as they are . |
| 17 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 18 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 19 | Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision . |
| 20 | I think they 're under a great pressure and you know th I think it 's erm you know , quite amazing really , that people survive as well as they do , given the pressures they 're that they are under . |
| 21 | The phrase ‘ rehabilitation ’ denotes no more than the practice of helping individuals to function as well as they can in all areas of their daily life or , more simply , to be happier and more fulfilled people . |
| 22 | They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion . |
| 23 | No matter — shooting up on the purest essence of Led Zep , The Stones , and the obligatory clutch of the early '70s Yank noisemaster , Thee Hypnotics leap straight outta the museum and into the '90s , resurrecting the spirit as well as they sound of their sonic ancestors . |
| 24 | On 4 July 1638 Alured got into serious trouble with the court for saying of the Scots that ‘ they did well ’ in opposing the king and he hoped ‘ they would reform this land by a parliament as well as they have done theirs already ’ . |
| 25 | Are your investments performing as well as they could be ? |
| 26 | Are your investments performing as well as they could be ? |
| 27 | Many councils have employed too many staff over the years , have been too inefficient , and have not maintained their homes for the elderly and residential care homes as well as they should have done . |
| 28 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 29 | Some clients may feel that no-one can know or therefore write about their company as well as they can . |
| 30 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |