Example sentences of "well [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they need to be better publicised or at different times/days . |
| 2 | It has been much better publicised and early results have been encouraging . |
| 3 | Anne Dickie , Manager Royline Sales , said regional awards had been introduced so that the efforts and results of branches could be better highlighted and rewarded — and she praised the first three winners . |
| 4 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 5 | Dummett , architect of anti-realism as successor to verificationism , offers the most introductory account I know in Dummett ( 1978 , ch. 10 ) but if you are new to this area you would do better to wait until you have read ch. 9 of the present book before attempting it . |
| 6 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 7 | Clubs were better placed than inexperienced individuals to profit from advertising , which began to expand the commercial potential of sport in the 1930s . |
| 8 | But now , with hopes of success in both Guineas races in two weeks ' time , and the renaissance of Manton under his trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam , the leading British owner-breeder is better placed than at any period in the past decade . |
| 9 | Underpinning government faith in UDCs is the belief that a single-minded agency with limited objectives , using streamlined administrative procedures and free from political ambiguity is better placed than local authorities to turn round a closely defined area ( Adcock , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | As basses gain more strings and bassists push playing horizons further and further apart , Hartke 's technology is better placed than most to take advantage of the situation , especially as they reinforce this tonal definition with their use of smaller drivers . |
| 11 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 12 | As a result he 's probably better placed than most to reflect on the advance of professionalism . |
| 13 | She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan . |
| 14 | The Company 's military officers , if less well paid than their civilian brethren , were yet infinitely better placed than their counterparts in the military service of the crown . |
| 15 | The combination of spiritual , cultural , and economic influence at its disposal made the Russian Church in some ways better placed than its Western counterparts to resist the ambitions of the newly centralized State . |
| 16 | In other words , the fact that we get most of our true beliefs from other people , whom we believe are better placed than we are to get them for themselves , is just a special case of the division of labour : namely , of epistemic labour , the labour of acquiring knowledge . |
| 17 | The district judge in Hong Kong was far better placed than this Board to make such a judgment , as part of his assessment of the situation as a whole . |
| 18 | The high cost of transport meant that areas with access to the sea or to navigable rivers such as the Danube were better placed than inland areas . |
| 19 | The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts . |
| 20 | Even if they had no records and had n't bothered to enquire before they inducted the man , surely they were better placed than she was . |
| 21 | However , English solicitors are best placed to take advantage of the market that the 1992 provision will offer ; the profession is arguably better placed than any other to advise international clients on the legal aspects of doing business in the ‘ global village ’ . |
| 22 | An in-house lawyer is usually better placed than an outside lawyer to give the advice which will most benefit his client ; he should have sufficient knowledge of his employer 's structure , resources and commercial objectives to enable him to give advice geared specifically to his client 's needs , which will not always be the same as the ‘ standard ’ legal advice . |
| 23 | The winner of this year 's Avia Foursomes and the amateur medal at the British Women 's Open at Ferndown , the undeniably gifted Cheshire golfer was distressed to find that she was no better placed than second reserve for England in the Home Internationals and , further , that she was not given a place on the " B " team sent to Italy . |
| 24 | If the early nineteen nineties are as testing a time for U S and U K markets as many people predict I 'm nonetheless confident that Pearson is better placed than most companies to withstand this . |
| 25 | We are better placed than anyone to do it . |
| 26 | In his well-known ‘ boutades ’ against politicians Pétain appeared to fear no one ; to Poincaré he once remarked acidly that ‘ nobody was better placed than the President himself to be aware that France was neither led nor governed . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ With such a cultural heritage , Koreans are better placed than many of us to appreciate the dangers which confront us and the need for action before it is too late . ’ |
| 28 | DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate . |
| 29 | Any animal with even a rudimentary nervous system will be better placed if it can compute the arrival of impending danger or the location of valuable resources such as food or mates . |
| 30 | However slight the contact may seem to be between certain levels of government policy-making and the work of teaching , managers of education at school level would be better placed if teachers were at least aware that programmes such as those connected with the TVEI can be altered by ministerial will — and can have their funding reduced . |