Example sentences of "well [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breast-fed babies usually survive better than artificially fed babies ( see Chapter 7 ) ( Beaver 1973 ) . |
| 2 | Graded 3-star or better and privately owned , this type of accommodation offers private bathroom , colour television and telephone as standard and prices , from as little as £82 for 3 days , include the use of the car . |
| 3 | In fact , Byrne knew better and eventually resigned without making another move because he realised that he was due to be mated within four moves ! |
| 4 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 5 | It is always sound to add any such volumes to personal collections , for however well or badly done , they will always be a source of inspiration — if only on how to approach certain topics . |
| 6 | Wild plants growing well where never before seen , and growing very well where only found in small clumps . |
| 7 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 8 | She was able to carry out the simple reward programme which worked very well and then progressed to rewarding Luke for passing a motion in the lavatory . |
| 9 | The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time . |
| 10 | I 'm also sure that they 're well and truly hidden from prying eyes like yours or mine . ’ |
| 11 | Then her status as a functioning person is well and truly threatened and she is bereft of much beside the loss of her husband . |
| 12 | Like a woman who 's just been well and truly kissed . |
| 13 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 14 | soc : As far as I can see , your contribution to basic knowledge is well and truly ignored . |
| 15 | Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised . |
| 16 | No matter how bad he does n't like it he 's well and truly gutted . |
| 17 | The ice will be well and truly broken . |
| 18 | The range of objectives to be met , and potential opponents , are narrower and this time the ground has already been well and truly broken by a predecessor . |
| 19 | I 've just well and truly broken mine , you know I chipped the end of the |
| 20 | We think it is night time when in actual fact morning has well and truly broken . |
| 21 | The Eighties surf bubble has well and truly burst , and competition prize money for the sport side of surfing is on the wane . |
| 22 | Their task of containing their adversaries , without committing themselves to outright attack , had been well and truly done . ’ |
| 23 | A short wooden sword was clutched in one grimy hand and the boy 's shirt had been well and truly ripped . |
| 24 | As Churchill said , ‘ if well and truly built , the structure of the United States of Europe will be such as to make the material strength of a single state less important ’ . |
| 25 | BOBBY ROBSON tried his best to be diplomatic , but his face is too expressive to play that game , and the fight to conceal his true feelings was well and truly lost . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm lost , well and truly lost . |
| 27 | Printing , however , has well and truly lost all sense of mystery . |
| 28 | Paradise was well and truly lost . |
| 29 | The Christmas goose was well and truly cooked and a good time was had by all . |
| 30 | Oh it is well and truly cooked , tell me when |