Example sentences of "so well as " in BNC.

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1 But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’
2 Worried people do not concentrate , hear or understand so well as usual .
3 Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now .
4 Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir .
5 They do n't like it so well as London .
6 As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper .
7 VISITING LADY : Well , Mistress Pamela , I ca n't say I like you so well as this lady does for I should never care , if you were my servant , to have you and your master in the same house together .
8 We did n't know her so well as we think .
9 ‘ No man practises so well as he writes .
10 Without their dedicated service , the prison would not be run so well as it is .
11 Did n't know her so well as you did .
12 It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar .
13 Everything works so well as it is .
14 No one can present that point to the King so well as you .
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