Example sentences of "well [conj] on " in BNC.

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1 With cooler air , more cloud , and so less sunshine , even grass grows less well than on the lowlands .
2 She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ .
3 The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony .
4 They need flat water to perform well and on no account should they be taken into waves , since , not only are they difficult to manoeuvre well , but they are also liable to snap because of their length .
5 Everything and everybody worked well and on cue .
6 Apart from armoured columns the French navy had joined in as well and on at least one occasion the battleship Richelieu was in action against land targets .
7 Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while
8 Cos he did n't think that was a because Steven was disabled and that as well and on my money and one thing and another
9 Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’
10 ‘ My dear Vivien , ’ said his aunt , ‘ I do commend you on your herb garden as well as on your choice of bride .
11 The programme scrupulously refused to attribute full maturity to either faction , dwelling on the bestial acts committed by animal rights terrorists — the Bristol University bombing and so on — as well as on the vile surgical mutilations which had provoked them , and Ian Breach 's presentation script was both deft and literate ; a model guide through these complex issues .
12 Now 13 , Sherine , a petite size eight , gets inspiration from country walks around her home in King 's Langley , Hertfordshire , as well as on family holidays in Devon .
13 But we loved Los Borrachos , those working men drunk on the ambiguous beauty of Bacchus as well as on the wine .
14 In situations where both methods could be used , the choice depends on the association between the sample and the event to be dated , as well as on the likely error terms .
15 Musicians play together here all the time , in bars and in their houses as well as on stage .
16 So , for example , in 1978 , quite small traders were already moving money out of Libya for their close kinsmen as well as on their own account .
17 To date more than 200,000 refugees have taken shelter in Bangladesh , putting further strain on its economy as well as on its relations with Burma .
18 And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population .
19 He could look after His protégé in the water as well as on dry land .
20 THE debate on the male gaze has continued ever since and has had an impact on feminist film-making as well as on theory and criticism .
21 In some cases this money had been spent on ‘ magnificent sports centres , public buildings , and libraries ’ , as well as on useless projects such as FENI .
22 This amplification process occurs on the wider , societal level as well as on the individual level .
23 It will depend on the prices for crops and livestock , as well as on the climate and the soils .
24 In other words , success , as in so many other things , will depend on how things are done , as well as on the merits of the proposal .
25 This four-year course is characterized by its practical nature with attention placed on the application of knowledge as well as on theoretical concepts .
26 Refreshments are available at those stations too , as well as on most trains .
27 If this is your motive it is important to recognize it , and to make sure that does not impose too great a burden on the person cared for as well as on yourself .
28 It is important for her to give her husband confidence in any area of his life , as well as on the sexual level .
29 But the Public Order Act of 1986 goes further than either Lord Scarman or Sir Robert Mark had envisaged by giving new powers to the police to impose conditions on public assemblies as well as on processions .
30 The notorious Marquis de Sade got his kicks from inflicting pain — on others as well as on himself ( sado-masochism ) .
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