Example sentences of "well [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly , being left undisturbed to sucker , a method of propagation he considered better than by seed ; a Cephalanthus occidentalis , the largest he had seen , ‘ liked the situation well enough ’ and Itea virginica was ‘ in the greatest vigour ’ . |
| 2 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 3 | But the paradox is that if both sides were to disarm , they would both do better than by both arming , because each prefers mutual disarmament ( 3 , 3 ) to the arms race ( 2 , 2 ) . |
| 4 | Questions relating to counting and calculating with whole numbers are generally tackled by girls as well as or better than by boys . |
| 5 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 6 | A powerful Muslim force was besieging his city of Tiberias and he gave the order to advance to its relief knowing full well that by leaving his camp he was risking battle . |
| 7 | I am by no means inclined to consider Diodorus a mere copyist of his sources , and I know only too well that by stylistic criteria one could prove that Sir Ronald Syme is the author of some of the books written by his pupils . |
| 8 | ’ Can pay , wo n't pay ’ is shorthand : written out in full , their credo was , ’ We have the money to make our proper contribution to the cost of essential local services , but , because we wish to indulge in political point-scoring , we will withhold that contribution — knowing full well that by doing so we will force local authorities either to increase charges for the great majority of law-abiding citizens , or to cut services . ’ |
| 9 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 10 | well if by way of suggestions , in , no , in a way because they are the plaintiffs |
| 11 | This suited me well and by 10am that day I was hoeing and raking the 60-foot square potato patch in preparation for the sowing . |
| 12 | Actually , I set my alarm for seven as well and by quarter past I was standing outside Frank and Sal 's flat with my trusty nailfile doing the business on their Yale lock . |
| 13 | part of this interpretation has been by politicians and clerics as well as by judges . |
| 14 | He is a man of balance and careful equilibrium , a man with something to say by his life as well as by his words . |
| 15 | Suitable netting is available from garden centres as well as by mail order . |
| 16 | Similar expressions of grief and outrage were made by Jewish organisations around the world , as well as by the European Commission and the Belgian Prime Minister , Wilfried Martens , who called the act ‘ revolting and wretched ’ . |
| 17 | The changes proposed by your correspondent , as well as by Polly Toynbee in her book Lost Children , could well add to the increasing number of children in our society who lack a strong family background provided by two married parents . |
| 18 | He maintains he did not want to shoot her , but that he was angry with her and was also agitated by a huge bar bill , and as well as by being put in a particularly smokey corner of the night club . |
| 19 | One other parallel between routine policing in Easton and police forces in non-divided societies is the common way in which police work is structured by gender as well as by time . |
| 20 | In all this period he was influenced by Barfield ( a disciple of Rudolph Steiner ) and by rereading Plato himself , as well as by Neo-Platonist writers such as Dean Inge ( Broad Church ) . |
| 21 | It is a technique used both on the Left and on the Right , by General Pinochet as well as by General Castro . |
| 22 | The formal reopening will be attended today by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Mr Modrow as well as by the mayors of East and West Berlin . |
| 23 | They would like government to do more for the weakest and the poorest , by direct transfers of income ( witness the rise in child benefit ) as well as by boosting educational standards . |
| 24 | These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm . |
| 25 | Mr Cleaver was endorsed by the Kansas City Star , as well as by other mainstream organisations including a group of black Republicans . |
| 26 | And as for defence , ’ he went on , ‘ Britain would be defended by arms manufactured in Germany or France just as well as by arms manufactured in Britain , if this were necessary for good economic reasons . ’ |
| 27 | The judgement of observers of the misfortunes of others were influenced by numerous factors , such as the scale of the calamity and its proximity or remoteness , as well as by prejudices arising from class and privilege . |
| 28 | The same year brought the Pugwash manifesto , written by Bertrand Russell and signed by Einstein two days before he died , as well as by Professors Max Born , J. F. Joliot-Curie and Joseph Rotblat . |
| 29 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 30 | Counties Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan ( at present in Republican Limbo ) must be a part of Ulster in legal fact as well as by tradition . |