Example sentences of "well [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you know that there is nothing they like better than to be starved ? |
| 2 | Yesterday he was testing with the team in Estoril where he said : ‘ There is nothing I would like better than to be back in Grand Prix racing . ’ |
| 3 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 4 | Blake believed that if he could understand all aspects of his horses , he could make them happy and motivate them to work better and to be more successful in competition . |
| 5 | On the positive side ‘ three in five of the sample were discharged into accommodation judged by staff to suit them well or to be at least satisfactory ’ . |
| 6 | and , and , well and to you as well Viv but er I have n't seen Viv , I have n't seen Pete for a while . |
| 7 | Erm I 've given a zero for all the effects because they of money erm if it i if , if this idea works well then we consider that growth next year as well but to be prudent wh why did n't you justify the service environment rule , to be prudent , erm , I , I have assumed that will be a proper effect and therefore I 'm not assume the potential of next year 's base budget . |
| 8 | big er , detached houses that have not long been built as well but to me , I ca n't see there being much privacy . |
| 9 | Pater 's interpretation is justly celebrated , with its cornucopia of cultural references to Troy , Greece , Rome , the Middle Ages , as well as to Pagan gods and Christianity . |
| 10 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 11 | Brown will probably be involved in passing it on to other sites as well as to colleagues at the Morgan Grenfell operation . |
| 12 | This is proving useful to them as well as to mothers with push-chairs , who are perhaps more frequent users . |
| 13 | This is a version of the supposedly post -behaviourist theory called ‘ functionalism ’ , which treats mental states as responding to other internal and mental states as well as to external stimuli . |
| 14 | Virginsky will always belong to the Petrashevsky Circle of Dostoevsky 's own youth , as well as to the ill-assorted group that dances to Verkhovensky 's tune in the late 1860s . |
| 15 | Null depth varies in practice , because some antennas respond to the electric field component of the wave as well as to the magnetic field component . |
| 16 | Later he responded in a similar way to D. H. Lawrence 's criticism , as well as to his creative achievement . |
| 17 | This is true in other academic areas , of course , but English is one of the largest earners , since books in this area can be hopefully addressed to ‘ general readers ’ , in a ritual recognition that there is a world elsewhere , as well as to students ( though I suspect they are mostly read by teachers ) . |
| 18 | For most Arabs , the original betrayal occurred at the height of the First World War , when the allied powers made conflicting promises to each other , as well as to the Jews and Arabs . |
| 19 | Recent causes for concern had related both to frequent revisions of figures as well as to integrity issues . |
| 20 | Impartiality can be irritating to viewers as well as to governments — though much less so to viewers . |
| 21 | Durkheim wrote that , ‘ there is something impersonal in us because there is something social in all of us , and since social life embraces at once both representations and practices , this impersonality naturally extends to ideas as well as to acts . ’ |
| 22 | It looks back to Lanman as well as to Eliot 's other Sanskrit teacher , the ex-anthropologist , Woods , who had written that to the Hindu , ‘ Logically and temporally , the word seems to precede its idea and its meaning : a man thinks , the Hindu would say , because he is talking . |
| 23 | The ‘ broken column ’ may relate to the traditional graveyard image of premature death , as well as to the ‘ broken stone ’ of section three where ‘ stone images/ Are raised ’ . |
| 24 | Eliot 's solution of a widespread Christian community hierarchically organized , related both to the state and individual parishes and containing intellectual leaders , owes much to Benda 's notion of clercs , as well as to the anthropologists ' stress on the connection of religion with society . |
| 25 | It gives rise to many of man 's anxieties and failures as well as to his often extraordinary achievements ’ ( pp. x , xi ) . |
| 26 | If Foucault and Derrida are taken to task for their Nietzschean lineage , Habermas ' main weakness is deemed to lie in his Kantianism , manifest in a formalist ‘ metaethics ’ , and his conception of ‘ communicative rationality ’ grounded in the consensual account of meaning offered by speech-act theory — and as such likewise vulnerable to Davidson , as well as to Wittgenstein . |
| 27 | Remember that performance is susceptible to the effects of external conditions , the mood of the subject and sleep loss , as well as to rhythmic changes . |
| 28 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | The finished result , eleven bound volumes of single-spaced pages , is a testimony to Warnie 's extraordinary patience , as well as to his seemingly inexhaustible appetite for contemplating his own immediate past . |
| 30 | The magnetic attraction of the European Community for all of its neighbours — to the north and south as well as to the east — itself calls for some agonising reappraisal of the conventional wisdom of British foreign policy . |