Example sentences of "[pers pn] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view is widespread among the senior officers we talked to , and among ordinary policemen , that policewomen , as women , have instincts and capabilities which make them better suited to specific types of police work . |
| 2 | Unfortunately their crude tactics , due to a very low educational level , made them better counter-agents than agents for the Bolsheviks . |
| 3 | In May 200 struck on the Orlov-Vitebsk line on this account , declaring that instead of devoting its energy to extracting gold from the churches , the government should find ways of paying them better . |
| 4 | In five years a machine is counted as nothing in the balance sheet , but people count and age makes them more experienced , gives them better judgement — if they 're capable of learning , which most people are . |
| 5 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 6 | It seems though that they handle them better . |
| 7 | When you know them better , by all means invite them to a party meeting but do n't let your attitude to them be dependent on their political philosophy . |
| 8 | These pieces represent English Romanticism at its peak and nobody did them better than Beecham . |
| 9 | Take our kids away from us because you reckon you know what 's good for them better than what we do ? |
| 10 | This often enables them better to achieve the benefits that rules may bring as explained above , and other benefits besides . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the unruly people of Rome , currently opposed to the Pope , suggested that it would suit them better to confirm the imperial crown upon Barbarossa . |
| 12 | Once you have learned to see the difference between your own three Faces , you are more likely to look behind the mask presented by others and to understand them better . |
| 13 | We need more space in our branches to improve the comfort and convenience for customers and to talk to them and serve them better . |
| 14 | He had 17 management jobs in total including Scotland , Chelsea , Manchester United , FC Porto and Queens Park Rangers , and he will be immortalised by his own self-deprecating one-liner , ‘ I 've had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus , but he used them better . ‘ |
| 15 | One thing the microfloppies have in common is the fact that they are all under 10 cm in diameter , making them better suited for briefcase-size computers than the existing 5¼-inch ( 12–5 cm ) and 8-inch ( 20 cm ) diameter floppy discs . |
| 16 | Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’ |
| 17 | Hugh Jones , though , is pure ‘ old school ’ , and he had the patience and faith to produce the band au naturel ( ‘ It 's actually got less guitars on it , but we recorded them better . |
| 18 | I 'd like to see them better treated . |
| 19 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 20 | All we dare claim is that we are making them better readers ’ ( p. 56 ) . |
| 21 | Exercising in front of a mirror encourages us to take a real look at our bodies and get to know and control them better . |
| 22 | Somebody said the players now have a bit to prove against Manchester United but some of them better do that in training on Monday . ’ |
| 23 | While appreciating the extraordinary difficulties facing Mr Lamont , it must still be said that he could have handled them better than this . |
| 24 | It does them better . |
| 25 | Primates use tools in many of the same ways as other mammals — although they probably use them better . |
| 26 | The extra time and support that are necessary ( a ) to perform jobs that are pressing at the limits of personal and material resources , and ( b ) to invest in learning how to do them better , or to assemble additional resources , so that the time taken to perform them is reduced , are not available . |
| 27 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 28 | The lady who ran Ruane 's office said the dispenser was giving them better coffee , better chocolate , than any time in the last nine years . |
| 29 | More field-dependent people are literally more attentive to people 's faces and remember them better ( Crutchfield , Woodworth and Albrecht , 1958 ) . |
| 30 | TIP : If your fish have hiding places you will actually see them better ! |