Example sentences of "[adv] well [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 2 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 3 | Much better than sitting in pubs with young girls or even drinking with one 's colleagues , the hastily snatched pint of bitter before they caught their trains home to their wives . |
| 4 | Calm water : Mushroom anemones seem to fare much better if placed in quiet areas of the tank , where the current is n't strong enough to actually move the disc of the polyp . |
| 5 | ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted . |
| 6 | The anemones will prefer being planted in full sun , as their flowers do n't open so well when put in a shady position . |
| 7 | Quigley ( 1969 ) did find the Rochester Method ( fingerspelling with lip-reading ) better than the oral method and also better than signing for producing success in English . |
| 8 | As with all the Fairy Basslets that this species will flourish far better when kept in pairs , individuals often displaying a mere shadow of their potential . |
| 9 | The Scottish National winner is just 3lb higher than when successful at Wincanton earlier this month , stays really well and acts on this testing ground . |
| 10 | Roger did not do as well as hoped in his ‘ A ’ levels , but will probably go to Birmingham to do a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 11 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 12 | And there has been some encouragement from within industry , reflected , for example in Business in the Community ( BiC ) , founded in 1982 and sponsored by firms such as IBM and Marks and Spencer as well as supported by the DoE and the Manpower Services Commission ( later the Training Commission , itself absorbed by the Department of Employment in 1988 ) . |
| 13 | The earliest authenticated cuckoo was for years a literal early bird seen as well as heard on March 27 , 1936 , in Kent , but one was reportedly heard and seen on March 2 , 1972 , in Berkshire . |
| 14 | Saints who should be seen as well as heard about |
| 15 | The saints or ‘ holy ones ’ should be seen as well as heard about . |
| 16 | But in order to respond fully , our active participation as spectators is very obviously called into play — as well as called into question . |
| 17 | This preference , no doubt imposed by how people are paid as well as induced by their own wishes and experience , would on its own direct some people to the weekly-payment types of credit . |
| 18 | Every roof has an individual character — so you can be sure of an investment that ; s lovely to look at as well as adding to the value of your building . |
| 19 | He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer . |
| 20 | Therefore , you are bound to feel thwarted , frustrated as well as exhausted at the moment — quite unable to get your point or message across and still in two minds regarding certain plans and moves . |
| 21 | But rapid anti-Hebbian modification of the mutual interactions between the neurons at one level should work rather well if combined with slower Hebbian modification of the synapses feeding excitation from a lower level . |
| 22 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 23 | However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens . |
| 24 | This would enable them to recharge their yacht 's batteries equally well when sailing through the doldrums as through a gale in the North Atlantic . |
| 25 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 26 | Mrs Geary understood it quite well and disagreed with it often . |
| 27 | If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help . |
| 28 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 29 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 30 | Okay well that looks as if that adds up nicely . |