Example sentences of "[vb -s] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live out their business lives well , never become millionaires but they are solid citizens . ’ |
| 2 | She could receive more if she lives well into old age . |
| 3 | The smoke analogy holds well for flying brents too . |
| 4 | Something vulnerable in her manner brings out an element of sadism in the way the long final act teases her endurance ; but it also makes the denouement extremely touching , and the part lies well for a voice that has managed Janacek 's Capture as well as Verdi 's Violetta . |
| 5 | The upper arm lies well against the body , but not too tightly . |
| 6 | This lovely country house lies well secluded off the road between Forres and Elgin in the magnificent countryside of Morayshire ( which has one of the highest sunshine levels in the UK ) . |
| 7 | I know this lies well within your capabilities , Richard . |
| 8 | At the same time the western tip of the Isle of Wight was also almost isolated from the main mass of the island by the flooding of the valley of the western Yar which at present lies well below 15 m ( 50 ft ) OD and extends north-south across the island three miles from its western extremity . |
| 9 | The area of suggested centuriation lies well to the north of the town on Cliffe Marshes , and Nightingale even claimed that a plot measuring 2 by I actus ( =1 iugerum ) , which features on the 1840 tithe map and is still in the possession of a single owner , was a survivor of the Roman survey . |
| 10 | Thus , in the present study we induced secretion in the test segment which lies well within the range of secretion observed with naturally occurring cholera . |
| 11 | For example , how should policy makers react if , having been persuaded that the larger part of observed unemployment is Keynesian , they are also persuaded that NAIRU lies well within the range BC in Figure 8.8 ? |
| 12 | Before leaving philosophical treatments of indexicals , we should just point to a subject of deep theoretical importance which lies well beyond the scope of this book — namely , the connection of indexical reference to the fundamentals of reference in general . |
| 13 | The wellspring of the river lies well to the west , at Tyndrum , and tumbles through gorge , glen and loch into the beginnings of the rich Perthshire farmland and the start of the spawning grounds for the Tay salmon . |
| 14 | This example illustrates well that one has to be aware of the range of possible treatments and restorations to which even perfectly genuine objects could have been subjected . |
| 15 | An extract from a speech to the Reichstag in April 1939 illustrates well the personalized claims Hitler made for ‘ his ’ great ‘ achievements , and how far these rested on ‘ national ’ rather than specifically Nazi ideals and aspirations . |
| 16 | The daughter 's second interview unfortunately did not take place until shortly after her mother had been admitted to long-stay care but it illustrates well the mixture of feelings which can be expressed . |
| 17 | The catalytic cycle ( Figure 1 ) illustrates well how a modern inorganic chemist thinks . |
| 18 | In our situation we had an incident — trivial by comparison with Peter 's — which illustrates well what may happen when someone has a teachable spirit . |
| 19 | Sussex 's most remarkable Saxon church , Sompting , illustrates well the process of extension and adaptation which went on over several centuries , and particularly as South Saxon society reached its peak before Norman infiltration . |
| 20 | The case below illustrates well what is involved . |
| 21 | For it illustrates well how literacy co-exists with arcane mystical practices and how such practices co-exist with and even help to account for scientific progress . |
| 22 | Sexuality lies emblazoned across the surface of pop culture in the careless whispers of countless love songs , yet this apparent confirmation of dominant sex codes — heterosexual , same-age , monogamous relationships — cloaks a far more ambiguous relationship to sex and gender that illustrates well the ambiguous standing that pop culture has within our society . |
| 23 | This example illustrates well the difficulty of being a realist in the philosophy of science , for what we regard as reality is conditioned by the theory to which we subscribe . |
| 24 | Accordingly it became normal to try to survey erosion terraces and their associated features in the field and this type of investigation illustrates well the desirability of fitting the punishment to the crime , or more prosaically reaching a compromise between accuracy and amount of data . |
| 25 | The range of views put forward in a small sample of recent works on the subject ( see Abbott , 1987 ; Berardi , 1985 ; George , 1985 ; Tullis and Hollist , 1986 ) , illustrates well the complexities of the issues and the difficulty of solving them . |
| 26 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 27 | Only if the complex also shows carbonyl bands well above 1900 cm -1 can one be confident that such electronic effects are absent , and safely assign low-frequency CO stretches to bridging ligands . |
| 28 | Inula magnifica also grows and looks well by water , but is equally happy in the deep rich soil of a border or bed . |
| 29 | Every inch looks well used , whether by a girl foraging grass for oxen or by people resting at the side of the road . |
| 30 | It produces a very turbulent stream of air compared to similar airstones , and looks well worth investigating . |