Example sentences of "well when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Players will tend to perform better when they are among friends than when they are placed in unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 2 | Delicate herbs keep their flavour better when frozen . |
| 3 | Pelargoniums seem to flower better when rather pot-bound , so keep their roots restricted . |
| 4 | The thing about this man is that the whole wind section seems to play better when he is there , not just the flutes . |
| 5 | In Aberdeen South the Tories went one better when Mr Raymond Robertson won the seat from Labour 's Frank Doran , regaining a seat the Conservatives lost in 1987 . |
| 6 | Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope you 'll do better when I 'm in trouble . ’ |
| 8 | He liked us better when we shared his active pursuits . |
| 9 | This can also be seen with evening primrose oil ; though not an essential oil , it appears to work better when applied externally for the treatment of hyperactivity in children . |
| 10 | Odds ratios or differences in log odds can work better when the proportions are very small or large ; they are , however , more complex to interpret for all except seasoned punters who are used to comparing the likely returns on different bets ( Seaver et al. |
| 11 | They say that machinery works better when in use . |
| 12 | Bear in mind that rabbits always net better when they are running downhill , so take advantage of that if possible . |
| 13 | As with all the Fairy Basslets that this species will flourish far better when kept in pairs , individuals often displaying a mere shadow of their potential . |
| 14 | In fact , people often articulate consonants better when they whisper ! |
| 15 | ‘ I hear you better when I can see your face ’ is a fundamental truth that can be repeated in different ways according to circumstances : ‘ Please would you repeat that . |
| 16 | He works much better when he has plenty of space around him , and when his name is , metaphorically or literally , the only one above the title . |
| 17 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 18 | ‘ I am always drawn towards feminine frocks which , I feel , suited me a lot better when I was younger . ’ |
| 19 | You will find they mesh better when rough . |
| 20 | ‘ I shall like it better when there is a gold band as well , ’ he told her . |
| 21 | Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John . |
| 22 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 23 | I hardly knew Will much better when we were married . |
| 24 | Individuals may survive better when they join forces with others ( 1985 : 3 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ I like it better when you sleep , cos you 're a f—ing hypocrite , ’ he mutters in a dream-state mantra , agonisingly stretching the tension . |
| 26 | Children performed better when the day was structured in some way . |
| 27 | Consistency among teachers : Pupils performed better when the approach to teaching was consistent . |
| 28 | The multifactorial model tended to fit better when an intergenerational difference was included ( Z estimated at 0.05 , corresponding to a much lower heritability among parents ( ZH ) than among offspring ( H ) ) , but it was not significantly better ( χ 2 =3.28 , p=0.075 ) . |
| 29 | The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard . |
| 30 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |