Example sentences of "well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the move to Easingwold , a small market town that was similar in many ways to Pocklington but with fewer saddlers , was a beneficial one , for the family certainly did better once they were there . |
| 3 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 4 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 5 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 6 | Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics . |
| 7 | A foot of honour better than I was |
| 8 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 9 | A foot of honour better than I was , |
| 10 | And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training . |
| 11 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 12 | But Sauvignon does not come better than this and to my mind the del Cero Sauvignon has more grace , character and length than the much-vaunted Cloudy Bay Sauvignon from New Zealand , which is comparably priced . |
| 13 | On a purely practical basis , the paintings in this instance work better than the camera lens . |
| 14 | You wo n't get your own room or anything but it 's free and probably better than nothing . ’ |
| 15 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 16 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 17 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 18 | Jimmy could hit both the running shot and the ball on the rise better than anyone . |
| 19 | With his great hands , Jimmy returned the fast serve better than anyone in the history of the game . |
| 20 | If you are looking for a picture book on Nepal for a present or a memento of a trip then this is certainly as good as , if not better than , many of its rivals . |
| 21 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 22 | An increase in output current from the popular DAC 08 D-to-A converter is obtainable by means of this circuit , the current accuracy being better than 1% and offset current less than 0.1% . |
| 23 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 24 | If , as I 'm inclined to believe , this unwonted willingness to kiss the rod represents one last offer by Pound ( at this time , aged forty-eight ! ) to enrol in Binyon 's seminar if Binyon would only call it into being , Binyon once again knew better than to understand what Pound was driving at . |
| 25 | ( For Bottome herself says : ‘ No one could write better than Ezra when he was not trying to score off T.S . |
| 26 | For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ . |
| 27 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 28 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 29 | Relaxation ‘ better than some drugs ’ |
| 30 | AS anti-climaxes go , they do not come better than this . |