Example sentences of "'s well [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's better looking than Dot Cotton |
| 2 | I just hope he 's better looking than this . ’ |
| 3 | His judgement is more balanced and he 's better educated and better informed . |
| 4 | It 's well cut and made of high quality fabric that hangs beautifully , although it 's a little staid ; just the thing for the office . |
| 5 | I think it 's vital that any animal we hold in captivity , wild or otherwise is looked after properly and that it 's well done and for that you need help and guidance and you also need minimum standards to ensure it 's done well . |
| 6 | and although he 's well trained and they exercise him . |
| 7 | ‘ But personally he 's well stimulated and satisfied ? ’ |
| 8 | In addition to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley 's well publicised and controversial statement that elder abuse was not a ‘ major problem ’ is the worrying view from junior health minister Tim Yeo who said last year : ‘ In a very small number of cases the carer can not cope and responds with violence . ’ |
| 9 | Stable and comfortable on the back , it 's well made and functional . |
| 10 | It turns out that if you 're gon na give a talk or something and it 's a talk that 's well rehearsed and well known , you give it better when there 's a lot of people in a passive audience than when there 's one or two . |
| 11 | If it 's well established and secure , then it 's in a better position to survive the rigours of recession than some fly-by-night box shifter . |
| 12 | To the actress Joyce Carey in the crowded foyer of the Old Vic : ‘ But Joyce , it 's well known that Shakespeare sucked Bacon dry . ’ |
| 13 | It 's well known that the universe verse is infinite . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's well known that Maurice likes a night out but the media attention he gets in Britain makes it difficult for him to enjoy it . |
| 15 | This is an affect well known in some domesticated animals like sheep , it 's well known that if sheep are , if , if , if , if ewes are well fed just before they mate , they 're much more likely to er to twin than if they 're er not given extra food supplement and nowadays erm farmers wh wh who , who breed sheep for lambing er frequently feed , feed ewes a special diet just before er conception for that very reason , the rate of twinning increases . |
| 16 | I have a reputation for honesty and fair trading — and it 's well known that I do n't have any truck with shady deals , ’ she informed him bluntly . |
| 17 | Comparisons with pre-Reformation music are also made , and these are bedevilled by Wulstan 's well known but personal and unsubstantiated views on the sounding pitch of Latin music written before C.1558 . |
| 18 | It 's well organised and nice and my daughter likes it . |