Example sentences of "[prep] be well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps all three universities in the league were still shell-shocked after being well beaten by the top Pizza clubs last Saturday . |
| 2 | Perhaps all three universities in the league were still shell-shocked after being well beaten by the top Pizza clubs last Saturday . |
| 3 | Near Arken where they cross the border that 's about two hundred miles and then , you know , by the time they 've gone through er er , they 'll sort of be well down into erm sort of Stuttgart way I think that sort of area probably . |
| 4 | This stone built hotel has the reputation of being well run and offers light , spacious rooms . |
| 5 | In spite of being well fed and cared for , some dogs will steal food and scavenge at every opportunity . |
| 6 | This is the disadvantage of being well brought up . |
| 7 | All halyard tails were neatly turned up ; the yacht had an air of being well used , yet she obviously had an owner who kept right on top of the maintenance and defects list . |
| 8 | As quality carpet it still looks as good as ever ( apart from two small areas of wear ) in spite of being well used ( I have five grandsons ) . |
| 9 | So by implication if you c if the new settlement is capable of being well served by public transports , then that is se a a satisfactory situation . |
| 10 | In an area where the costs of being well informed are high compared with the benefits , this is not surprising . |
| 11 | As he ran his moke up and down Vitor 's shoulder , Thomas 's grin said he was delighted to have met him , while Vitor gave every impression of being well used to handling a child . |
| 12 | Their East Midlands opponents , one of the lesser lights of the competition , looked at one stage like being well mauled , but were allowed , like so many teams before them , to stage a late fightback . |
| 13 | oh no , that 's got ta be well out of it |
| 14 | It 's got ta be well it 's ri , what do you reckon , four thousand square feet ? |
| 15 | The aircraft at the club I fly ( train ) from are well maintained and do have silencers — albeit they do point downwards . |
| 16 | A conveyancer is just as much dependent upon being well organised and having a methodical mind as upon his or her knowledge of the law . |
| 17 | Far too many reclaimed sites , far from being well manicured , still present problems of their maintenance in a condition that enables them to be utilised and enjoyed . |
| 18 | Apart from being well written and a pleasure to read the overall feeling of this book is that the Author has a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge about his subject , and it is based on personal experience . |
| 19 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 20 | Clay County had rattled off a sequence of five straight wins last winter , two of them at Kelso , before being well beaten by Deep Sensation at Nottingham in February . |
| 21 | Velocities up to are well out of the range of the rotation velocity ( 250kms -1 ) of the galaxy NGC4258 7 and are much higher than any velocities known for molecular gas in our Galaxy or other galaxies ( for example for H 2 O maser in for CO in the galaxy for OH in the galaxy NGC253 13 ) . |
| 22 | The point of preparation is to be well tuned and at the same time flexible to new interpretations and ideas . |
| 23 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 24 | As yet there is no other body to undertake this task , and even tentative moves to remove the problem from the cell block and into the detoxification centre foundered in the entrepreneurial 1980s ; for there is little immediate profit to be made from reclamation of this kind of scrap material ( although the long-term value of a humanitarian return might be thought to be well worth pursuing in a civilized society ! ) . |
| 25 | His fears seem to be well founded , for a move towards regionalization is now occurring , with a proposal that the forty-three forces disappear into perhaps eight or nine giant regional units . |
| 26 | This has to be well compacted before the 20m gravel is laid — to a depth of about 50mm . |
| 27 | Although a transfer of the ownership of a company is unlikely to be well received by the board , care should be taken before making the decision on how to react ; agreeing to increase national control can be less harmful than ( for instance ) withdrawing from the country altogether . |
| 28 | The last of the winter snow was melting off the steep slopes , but the flatter areas and the passes still seemed to be well covered . |
| 29 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 30 | The advantage of employing a specialist firm is that its tradesmen are more likely to be well trained and experienced in this field of building preservation , with a thorough and successful job being a more certain result . |