Example sentences of "well [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the mid-1950s the differences between the two , however acute in 1956 , are better likened to temporary volcanic eruptions than to fundamental alterations to the landscape . |
| 2 | These discrepancies are better highlighted by the difference mosaic shown as Fig. 11 . |
| 3 | Too much sun , for example helps trigger the premature bolting to seed of some crops in summer , which is one reason why later sowings of radishes , salads or spinach are much better situated in a cool , shady bed . |
| 4 | Now that 's what I 'd prefer , but in every , you know the majority go against me and they want it in a as I say I I would , I think that it 'd be better placed at the top . |
| 5 | Whilst recognising that the 16–25 age group has a very strong claim to any manpower which might become available , the question arises as to whether it would be better placed at , for example , deanery level serving the needs of the whole age group rather than in an educational establishment serving an important but small minority . |
| 6 | Even a glance at the map shows that the French would at this time have been strategically much better placed without Verdun , for withdrawal would have straightened and shortened their line , thus strengthening it . |
| 7 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , yesterday said ‘ the report shows we are better placed for a major advance than some have suggested ’ . |
| 8 | But New Zealand farmers could not be better placed for the day when ( if ) other rich countries lower barriers to food imports and abolish farm subsidies . |
| 9 | It seems rather ironic that Stratford Mill , which was better placed for access to the transport system and a water supply , should be the first to go . |
| 10 | It is inconceivable that we could advise our clients in the manner in which Council has advised this institute , A ‘ brown-field ’ site out of London , in say Leeds or Sheffield or York , could attract development grants , rates deferrals and provide jobs and would be better placed for the majority of the membership . |
| 11 | You are probably much better placed in your home town or nearest city . |
| 12 | On the other hand , a child who has difficulty in establishing social contact with others may find the unpredictability of an ordinary classroom overpowering and be better placed in a special class or unit . |
| 13 | Unionists had a majority in Lloyd George 's war cabinet , but were little better placed in his government as a whole . |
| 14 | He was better placed in a university than in a school , and enjoyed more than he could have done in any other society the life of that great college , which was to be his home for the remainder of his life . |
| 15 | I believe we are better placed in the BBC than anyone to do it . |
| 16 | That is , in effect , to argue that the market , left alone , has determined that the application of resources to the creation of wealth is better undertaken by the conventional form . |
| 17 | Its formation is not completely understood but the fact that it is better developed on loose stones than on rock pavements and that there is frequently a well-developed band extending from an inch or two below the surface to just above the ground surface , suggests deposition from solutions derived from the soil by capillary action . |
| 18 | Along with this imaginative , inspirational side of the mind goes the capacity — better developed in some than in others — for intuition . |
| 19 | The right hemisphere is largely non-verbal , though right-sided speech centres are better developed in women than in men . |
| 20 | The appointment of a practice manager was regarded as important by a third of firms with over fifty staff and the findings show that management systems tend to be much better developed in firms where decision making is in the hands of a single practice manager rather than , for example , in committee meetings of the whole partnership . |
| 21 | But for one or two better clad of the group , the place might truthfully be designated a shopful of rags . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better explain to me what it is she does as a job . |
| 23 | Ah , ah , I just thought I 'd better explain to everyone , sorry . |
| 24 | Therefore we better comment on it ! |
| 25 | And he did n't tease her , or court her , or divert her , because what she had done was risk death , which was a thing better honoured by abstinence . |
| 26 | Well if you 've got to go in the garage , it 's too cold to go in there to finish the ship off so you 'd better paint in the house had n't you ? |
| 27 | Statutes since 1947 are better consulted in the annual volumes of Current Law Statutes Annotated than in the official annual edition . |
| 28 | In his study of the development of literate practices in medieval England , From Memory to Written Record 1066–1307 ( 1979 ) , Michael Clanchy has suggested that the problem is better formulated in a different way . |
| 29 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 30 | Pat Choate 's book will be better received in the United States than in Europe , although it should certainly find French readers . |