Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [is] well [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |
| 2 | A similar situation exists in some Latin American countries — for example , in Brazil , Argentina and Chile — where industrialization is well advanced and political life is now dominated by a struggle between classes , the outcome of which will decide whether their regimes remain autocratic , sometimes regressing into military and repressive forms , or become more democratic and eventually social democratic . |
| 3 | The notion of heterodoxy versus orthodoxy as a ‘ motor ’ for modernization is integral to a theoretical genealogy which sees change as brought about by the tension of ‘ ought ’ versus ‘ is ’ , whether in Hegel 's tension between the universal and the particular , jurisprudence 's counterposition of positive law and natural law , or Adorno 's well known ‘ utopian moment ’ . |
| 4 | However , this classification is illuminating only to the extent that apposition is well understood , and it is not clear that it is , or even can be . |
| 5 | ‘ The distinction between the actions of trespass and trover is well settled : the former is founded on possession ; the latter on property . ’ |
| 6 | Such techniques as aromatherapy seem to operate similarly , and the use of incense to achieve specific effects in meditation and ritual is well established . |
| 7 | This view of community education and development is well summed up in the first Gulbenkian Report on Community Work . |
| 8 | Roderick 's eminence as an engineering scientist and scholar is well known . |
| 9 | The size of units is very practical and progression is well measured . |