Example sentences of "well [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Prussia as a whole there was a discernible and understandable population shift , an Ostflucht ( literally : East flight ) from the poorly developed Spartan provinces of the east to the more ‘ civilised ’ , better developed and rapidly industrialising cities of the west . |
| 2 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |
| 3 | Ever felt the clothes on sale in British high streets could be better designed and better made ? |
| 4 | The Spanish catalogue ( Museo del Prado , Pta 2500 ) is greatly superior to the Italian one ( Electa Napoli ) ; it is better edited and better printed and it does not illustrate Sgarbi 's croute . |
| 5 | They are better educated and more informed — though illiteracy is still widespread among the poor . |
| 6 | His judgement is more balanced and he 's better educated and better informed . |
| 7 | They were better educated and better paid . |
| 8 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |
| 9 | A second would be to ensure corrugated iron covers on doors and windows are better secured and quickly repaired if removed or damaged . |
| 10 | Much of Europe now has its champion to watch on that famous , treacherous stretch ; and to many , the champion is better known and better loved than any politician . |
| 11 | But his 1775 candidate is well known — indeed she was better known and more celebrated after death than at any other time in her existence . |
| 12 | The essence of that hope is that through self-knowledge , existing constraints on thought and action can be better appreciated and thereby overcome . |
| 13 | Was it better fitted than before to handle the increasingly complex business of the sixteenth-century state ? |
| 14 | Teenage children , admitted by almost all teachers as the most difficult to teach , may become better motivated and better behaved if they have a short-term goal , passing the next grade on the ladder , and if they are working alongside people who are both older and younger than themselves . |
| 15 | There is no doubt , however , that the programme envisaged for 1993 and beyond is more coherent , better balanced and better attuned to the realities of a professional game which is increasingly dependent on the success or failure of the England team . |
| 16 | Local government , then , is better informed and easier to monitor than are national bureaucracies established to provide particular services . |
| 17 | The new Charities legislation will ensure that charities are better managed and properly regulated . |
| 18 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 19 | The waistline is usually the first area where fat accumulates , and so the presence of well developed and well defined abdominals is an obvious sign of an excellent physical state . |
| 20 | In Hungary , Lake Balaton is larger than Lakes Geneva or Garda and is a well developed and long established holiday region . |
| 21 | It was thus well manured and amply repaid any work spent on it . |
| 22 | To see that plough horses and cart horses are well treated and well fed . |
| 23 | And that tribute is well justified and well deserved . |
| 24 | This digests practically every reported case , and is well arranged and well indexed . |
| 25 | The relationships between the Variscides of Europe and the Appalachians of North America — and indeed between parts of the Appalachian province itself — are still a subject for controversy at a detailed level ( see Dewey 1982 ; Rast 1984 ; also several papers in Hutton and Sanderson 1984 ) , but it seems that useful , if cautious , parallels can be drawn between the partly concealed Variscides of Europe ( including southern England ) and the well exposed and much studied southern Appalachians ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 26 | None of these collections was well catalogued or well arranged by present-day standards , and none was accessible to the general public . |
| 27 | At first it was felt that this was caused by their failure to understand what was required of them despite being notified by the Board , the NEC , through the pages of The Embalmer as well as at Divisional meetings , but it is apparent that there is an element of tutors who deliberately do not follow the guidelines and rules , ignore well publicised and individually notified closing dates for entry and submission of coursework results , presumably to try and ‘ force ’ the Institute to return to the ‘ old ’ system . |
| 28 | Even the exacting Mary Crawford sees it as a desirable prize , ‘ a park , a real park five miles round , a spacious modern-built house , so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen 's seats in the kingdom ’ ; the absence of family portraits does not deter her . |
| 29 | Such a well placed and well managed woodland would bring ‘ never failing fountains of delight ’ to the inhabitants . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ It 's going to be tough , but I believe that BNFL is extremely well placed and superbly led by Neville Chamberlain . |