Example sentences of "well but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 2 | If you can use some limbs well but not others , the alert opponent will soon ensure that you are always being wrong-footed . |
| 3 | The Rugby Union is oblivious to us ; they mean well but they just do n't realise what 's going on up here . ’ |
| 4 | He played tennis with them under the willow-trees by college , playing not well but with a brisk gusto . |
| 5 | Both girls had done well but Sheila had done brilliantly . |
| 6 | I was doing quite well but knew I was well behind Tony the organiser who was bagging on the stick float . |
| 7 | I 've putted well but have n't holed anything . ’ |
| 8 | I 've putted well but have n't holed anything . ’ |
| 9 | Teddington rallied well but too late to save the game . |
| 10 | In 1985 his batting reached its peak at Taunton against a Warwickshire team who bowled and fielded well but who could not stop him making 322 , the highest first-class innings in England for thirty-six years ; after a slightly uncomfortable start , the second and third hundreds came off sixty-seven and sixty-three balls respectively , and only tiredness after a drive from Leeds the evening before caused his downfall . |
| 11 | Deciding that captaincy was affecting his batting , he stood down in favour of Fletcher for a season , resuming again in 1989 when the county did well but his own form was fairly ordinary . |
| 12 | ‘ That s all very well but I 'm worse off than I was before . |
| 13 | ‘ We are all doing well but so is Kylie . ’ |
| 14 | The crews were still rowing well but as Cambridge 's bend began to end , Oxford drew level again . |
| 15 | Most are useful and work well but I am not convinced of the value of a pictogram that shows the direction of airflow in the cabin , nor do I wish to have a reprimand from a stern-sounding lady if I do n't close the door properly . |
| 16 | He was pleased with his performance and said : ‘ I am playing well but I am lacking a little bit of killer instinct . ’ |
| 17 | Dundee United 2 St Johnstone 1 A RARE goal from Dave Bowman gave Dundee United their first win in four attempts this season against their Tayside rivals in a game which started well but finally provided poor entertainment for the crowd . |
| 18 | MIDLANDS : Labour did well but not well enough . |
| 19 | The Scots competed well but in attack , had to rely mainly on some good running by centres Cameron Murray and Craig Joiner . |
| 20 | ‘ Sure we went down well but the buzz over there is quite staggering and they are still into all that ‘ noo wave ’ garbage . |
| 21 | John used to enter very simply , did his class ‘ not very well but with complete concentration , and between exercises , when others would talk , adjust their clothes , or wipe the sweat from their faces , he stood perfectly still and watched closely as the next group went through the exercises ; Margot Fonteyn would do that too . ’ |
| 22 | It is satisfying to play a game well but there can be greater satisfaction in coaching another to higher standards … |
| 23 | Suburban and rural areas will recruit well but inner cities and council estates are short of volunteers . |
| 24 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 25 | They tend to be sweet and loving when well but self-pitying when ill . |
| 26 | They then grow the virus at 42°C , a temperature at which the avian virus grows well but the human virus does not flourish . |
| 27 | It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over . |
| 28 | Alexander served her well but failed her by not producing an heir when he married that French hussy . ’ |
| 29 | Linden Joseph , the lithe Guyanese who spent a disappointing season with Hampshire in 1990 , might well have won Test selection as well but injury , consistently his nemesis , struck him down during the A series . |
| 30 | It served the ancients well but as time went by infibulation dropped from regular practice and adolescents resumed theirs . |