Example sentences of "well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere we create is different but not better or worse in either Brighton or Blackpool . |
| 2 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 3 | Other musicians may have enjoyed greater financial reward playing this music , but nobody has done it better or with greater flexibility . |
| 4 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 5 | When this happens , better or more useful alternatives are missed , perhaps with new companies or new colleges . |
| 6 | They have their ways of doing things — you might think some of these could be done better or in a different way . |
| 7 | In reality , of course , nothing makes us better or worse than anyone else . |
| 8 | ‘ Bryan did no better or no worse than anyone else in the Turkey game , but that 's not the standard by which he judges himself . |
| 9 | Many women resist swapping jobs because they know they could do a job a lot better or quicker themselves , or because they are frightened of ‘ having a go ’ at traditional male jobs . |
| 10 | A hegemonal class may be more or less ingenious at furthering its political interest while maintaining its position in the power bloc ; the working class may make better or worse use of a revolutionary situation . |
| 11 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 12 | So I do know the different things that do make people feel either a little bit better or might just help them . |
| 13 | And how do you feel the er the hours and pay when you started relate to how it is now , is it better or worse , do you think ? |
| 14 | BeckerTools is a set of utilities that give you better or extra disk and file utilities under Windows . |
| 15 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 16 | Yeah but at the end of the day is she is she better or worse than ? |
| 17 | Opportunities to achieve better or more cost-effective removal of contaminants from the aqueous waste due to the higher initial concentrations . |
| 18 | so , you , if you , we can even sort of go through your figures and hopefully make the price that we , you know , we show better or |
| 19 | If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species . |
| 20 | If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species . |
| 21 | All were corked and sealed , and he was too circumspect to break the seals till he saw better where he was and what was to do . |
| 22 | Better that Aretha Franklin had not been born than that we should endure a drop more of this acid rain of spittle ! |
| 23 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 24 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 25 | Better that it 's used to revamp the old chestnut about ‘ how many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb ? ’ in the form of ‘ how many reissues does it take to relaunch a band 's career ? ’ |
| 26 | Better that soldiers or policemen or civilians be murdered and maimed in that corner of the United Kingdom and millions of pounds of property be destroyed than that votes be lost in mainland constituencies . |
| 27 | ‘ Better that we establish priorities of rank from the start . ’ |
| 28 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 29 | It flagged up certain erm items for concern , better that we know than not , not know them . |
| 30 | Much better that the simpler jobs be handled by word processors with intelligent formatting systems while leaving the complex work to those trained to handle it . |