Example sentences of "well [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young people , in particular , as they become better educated are reluctant to work the land — which is very hard work for a low income . |
| 2 | The better educated were slightly more optimistic about the past ( not the future , though ) in the pre-campaign week but even this slight effect disappeared during the campaign . |
| 3 | Better preserved are the moais at Anakena , beside the pleasantest beach on the island . |
| 4 | Better preserved are the Collegiate church of SS . |
| 5 | Could better use be made of health board professionals for meeting school staff development needs ? |
| 6 | Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America . |
| 7 | He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review . |
| 8 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 9 | ‘ Young unknowns leap at the chance ’ , he says , ‘ and even the better known are always keen to get exposure outside the gallery world . |
| 10 | One of the better known is William Cufay , an important figure in the Chartist movement who was exiled to Tasmania in 1849 . |
| 11 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 12 | Gloucestershire has many small streams and rivers , one of the better known being the River Churn . |
| 13 | George Allison has already been mentioned , but even better known were Howard Marshall , the Test match commentator , Freddie Grisewood , later to chair ‘ Any Questions ’ , and Colonel Wakeham on rugby . |
| 14 | Guns were only a small part of the Sussex output , and much better known were the ornamental cast-iron firebacks much in demand for the more sophisticated housing of the middling and upper ranks . |
| 15 | In addition much of the associated housing has also been removed and replaced by dwellings which although sometimes materially better appointed are not always aesthetically or socially better . |
| 16 | At the end of an hour , only one ‘ little feller ’ too young to know better had been in Auguste 's possession , and William and Joseph were scarcely able to restrain their mirth . |
| 17 | What would that better deal be in that case ? |
| 18 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 19 | Well change is fine as long as it 's done sympathetically and actually has some purpose . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | She was very genteel , softly spoken and , although poor , kept standards high — her gloves , although well mended were always beautifully white . |
| 25 | How well designed is the Habitat Improvement Scheme ? |
| 26 | How well targeted are the Moorland and Set-Aside schemes ? |
| 27 | Er the er of course it is more or less Welsh district than they 're they 're very well attended is the Welsh churches . |
| 28 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |