Example sentences of "well [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 2 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 3 | Insofar as they intruded on the very different trade in superior goods which Britain and Germany and USA could make better than they could and for which these and other countries had established legitimate mark[et]s and insofar as this intrusion was achieved by methods of subsidy and selling at less than cost it was an illegitimate trade and very disruptive in world trading circles . |
| 4 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 5 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 6 | I was much too shy ; they could all draw far better than I could . |
| 7 | This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before . |
| 8 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 9 | Much better than I could have been in the role . |
| 10 | He had to admit that she could still ride a lot better than he could . |
| 11 | And yet again he let the silence come , as if the silence would answer my questions better than he could himself ; but just when I had decided he would not answer , he spoke . |
| 12 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 13 | When faced with one ‘ old boy type ’ executive' who on meeting her with a view to beginning an assignment declared that there was no place for women in his business , she announced that as he was obviously only looking for someone just like himself , he could do that better than she could . |
| 14 | For one thing , it paid better than she could believe , and for another the work seemed to be something she could really get her teeth into . |
| 15 | In terms of which you better if we could do that erm , if we could do that . |
| 16 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 17 | On a national scale , the numerically and financially important small hotel businesses , which play a vital role in the provision of the national stock of tourist accommodation may be performing less well than they could . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Leyton makes the point well that we could benefit from better statistics . |
| 19 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 20 | I know every square inch of your delectable flesh , Miss Williams , so well that I could paint every luscious curve from memory . ’ |
| 21 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 22 | Ought we to think less of Johnson for agreeing because he knew full well that he could influence Boswell ? |
| 23 | I think Teresa felt very much as well that she could have done with more training on target setting and things like that . |
| 24 | To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland . |
| 25 | Galileo knew only too well that it could , if the province of biblical authority were not scrupulously defined . |
| 26 | At that time they were faced with legal fees of £3,000 if they sued the surveyor , and the risk of losing this as well if they could not prove the surveyor 's negligence in law . |
| 27 | I said to Fish the film has a message for the trade unions as well if they could find it and he said he 'd keep looking . |
| 28 | Well if we could send that with the amenities and perhaps if they 've got any , we ca n't say that er , I view this as very much , we 've , we 've got a platform here . |
| 29 | If , if er if you were on a case er well if you could get out for a , for an hour in the afternoon for a walk , but that was about all . |
| 30 | Well if you could spare us a few moments , we 'd be most grateful , your , it 's for a new series we 're contemplating , A Day in the Afterlife . |