Example sentences of "well [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 2 | Well change is fine as long as it 's done sympathetically and actually has some purpose . |
| 3 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 4 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 5 | A long term test of the Tempa Rossa 2 well has been successfully completed and good production rates were achieved from a sidetrack to the original discovery well . |
| 6 | I said well I thought well has been up there been up there er I thought had been up there a had been up there ? |
| 7 | She was very genteel , softly spoken and , although poor , kept standards high — her gloves , although well mended were always beautifully white . |
| 8 | How well designed is the Habitat Improvement Scheme ? |
| 9 | How well targeted are the Moorland and Set-Aside schemes ? |
| 10 | Er the er of course it is more or less Welsh district than they 're they 're very well attended is the Welsh churches . |
| 11 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 12 | One is inclined to ask here just how well argued is the frequent claim that ‘ the unit of communication is the sentence ’ ( Armstrong 1971 : 428 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He pulls one of those ‘ I-am-about-to-explode-in-front-of-your-very-eyes ’ faces , which we might as well assume is actually a crazy cover-up for the fact that he really means what he says . |
| 15 | Are existing professional forms able to meet the danger of managerialism and how well prepared are they to do so in the future ? |
| 16 | That other people think the job has been well done is far more important to him , he says , than the fact that it was done by him . |
| 17 | He 's quite well done is n't he ? |
| 18 | Oh there 's a lot of that well done was n't there ? |
| 19 | In my opinion , working to ensure that your family is well fed is good religion but I remember how careful Dad was about his Good Friday movements . |
| 20 | This well stirred is then taken all as one dose or only half is taken if ‘ special care is necessary ’ The stock bottle is shaken as suggested in the method above . |
| 21 | It 's very well made is n't it ? |
| 22 | well ferret 's a wild animal |
| 23 | A person who is illegitimate may very well resent being called a bastard , although it happens literally to be true . |
| 24 | Very much less well understood is how the genes control embryonic development . |
| 25 | Once the code is mastered it is relatively easy to transfer the skill to another language ; but to learn to read in a language where the spoken word is not well understood is to invite pseudoliteracy of the kind so painfully apparent in many countries . |
| 26 | What is not perhaps as well understood is the art of keeping a range of invertebrates together without such conflicts . |
| 27 | I well remember being very ‘ taken ’ with a punchcard which resembled the ‘ Feather and fan ’ pattern much favoured by hand knitters many years ago . |
| 28 | We have a , an unemployment rate officially of twelve thousand , probably the real figure as you well know is up probably sixteen thousand in a city of less than two hundred thousand . |
| 29 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 30 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |