Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Elf warrior who fell was well nigh irreplaceable . |
| 2 | In those 11 patients who had been well enough to undergo radionuclide ventriculography , the mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 11.7% ( range 6–20% ) . |
| 3 | There have been well over 300 scrutinies carried out since 1979 The scrutiny approach involves selecting targets for examination , typically over a 90-day time-scale . |
| 4 | In 1896 it had been well over half a century since Parliament had made specific grants to build parish churches and if Church schools got grants they did so as voluntary , not as Church schools : Roman Catholic , Methodist and ‘ British ’ schools were equally entitled to the grants . |
| 5 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 6 | The King was only just over seventy , and he had been well enough to make one of his ‘ bluff Englishman 's ’ jokes about the Hoare debacle , to spend his usual Christmas and New Year in the Norfolk countryside , and to deliver his Christmas broadcast from there . |
| 7 | That he had been well over the limit , both speed and booze limits , following a blazing row with her mother , she had kept to herself . |