Example sentences of "[be] well [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In one stinging indictment , the CEGB 's Lord Marshall said that the fuel rods from power stations would have been better stored in dry , gas-cooled chambers , as environmental critics had proposed , rather than under water . |
| 2 | Surely it could have been better spent on real conservation schemes , or even helping some of those small farmers facing bankruptcy and eviction ? |
| 3 | The particular features of southern culture are better illustrated by individual attitudinal variables , therefore , even though this runs the risk of over-generalizing from limited data . |
| 4 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 5 | Even in the mid-1950s the differences between the two , however acute in 1956 , are better likened to temporary volcanic eruptions than to fundamental alterations to the landscape . |
| 6 | Some related forms are better studied in polished section like the corals . |
| 7 | Devices like this poop scoop are better suited for domestic use . |
| 8 | In addition , her long-established methods of classroom organisation are better suited to whole-class teaching . |
| 9 | Third , the time and resources taken to prepare , administer and mark the tests are better devoted to real education ; |
| 10 | Yeah , you 're better cooked from frozen . |
| 11 | Biochemical and genetic influences might come to be better understood in dynamic balance or imbalance with each other , and with others — social , cultural , spiritual and cosmological . |
| 12 | The report , by researchers at Glasgow University 's Centre for Housing Research , was based on a study of nineteen BES companies in Scotland and the authors conclude that BES entails a misdirection of public resources which would be better employed as direct payments to housing associations . |
| 13 | The tourist may find guide books excellent value , but an armchair traveller may be better served in other ways . |
| 14 | If India 's government is persuaded that warming will produce better and more reliable monsoons , then it might decide that the interests of its burgeoning population would be better served by global warming than by attempts to hold it in check . |
| 15 | However , we should always ask whether the functions identified could be better served by alternative methods , as has happened with the development of intermediate treatment for adolescent offenders . |
| 16 | To meet some of this demand close to the city , where housing can be better served by public transport , and where journeys to work will be shorter than from more remote areas , some Green Belt land , for example to the south east of the city , will be developed . |
| 17 | Although the authors see some advantages in a system within the local authority , they conclude that claimants would be better served by independent tribunals and feel Social Security Tribunals are well placed to take on the task . |
| 18 | Rather than arguing that elderly people should automatically have a right to all forms of screening or other selective treatments , we should ask whether such programmes should be in Operation at all , and if the resources would not be better deployed in alternative approaches . |
| 19 | perhaps some of the real and practical problems of user education may not have been tackled , but some might argue that these might be better researched at single-institutional level , without the necessity of substantial , outside funding . |
| 20 | If novels are to be studied as part of an exclusive course , they might be better located in Cultural Studies . |
| 21 | By being able , as a PLC , to choose and manage a supply of funds from a wide range of sources , we could ensure we offer mortgage loans at very competitive rates and the flow should be better protected against sudden economic changes . |
| 22 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 23 | By contrast , there is more widespread agreement that the macroeconomic stabilization function will be better performed by central government than by local governments . |
| 24 | Some people think that the vast amounts of money spent by governments on nuclear weapons would be better spent on other needs , such as health care . |
| 25 | If not , it is an appalling waste of time and money that would be better spent on other things . |
| 26 | Some scientists believe that the danger to health has been exaggerated , and that the estimated £1.8 billion required over the next five years to bring nitrate levels down would be better spent on other health problems . |
| 27 | The case against heavy defence expenditure can not rest simply on arguments that some of that money would be better spent on social policy ; it is necessary to prove that some of that expenditure is inappropriate or irrelevant , or to face the argument that without it no social policy would be secure . |
| 28 | If you ask them why , some may say that the money would be better spent on different , smaller projects . |
| 29 | Tony Quirke , spokesman for Southport 2000 , a group aiming to restore the town 's Victorian splendour , said the money Sefton Council plans to use for ‘ environmental art ’ would be better spent on improved security and lighting . |
| 30 | The cost to the taxpayer would be as much as DM1,000 million , which the Environment Office believes could be better spent on improving car engine designs . |