Example sentences of "well at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 2 | Consider , for instance , informed discussions of sporting events , which are always displays of evaluative analysis : who played well , who disappointingly , and why and how ; or whether a team has played better at home or away , this season or last . |
| 3 | Despite the carnage elsewhere , the shares ended the day 36p better at 669p and had been much higher . |
| 4 | We 'd study better at home , ’ Sheila complained crossing the fields . |
| 5 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 6 | These tasks appear to be done better at night with a general decline throughout the daytime to lowest values in the early evening . |
| 7 | The fear of a ‘ few stern five minutes ’ with his father , who wanted him to leave Battersea Grammar School for the neighbouring public school St. Paul 's , and had arranged for him to have special lessons in Latin verse and in Greek , kept him steadily at school work , although he knew he ‘ could do better at lessons if I wished ’ . |
| 8 | Are socialist bureaucrats better at supplying a market than private traders ? |
| 9 | He would do better at Aintree . |
| 10 | NatWest rose 14 to 284p , while Barclays ended 9 better at 304p . |
| 11 | ICI shares ended the day 14 better at £12.73 . |
| 12 | Bid stories were again swirling around the trading desks , with Hillsdown Holdings ( up 16 at 192p ) joining the list of usual suspects such as Kwik Save ( 5 better at 573p ) and Ranks Hovis McDougall ( firming 1 to 228p ) . |
| 13 | There was heavy cross-trade activity in Scottish Hydro-Electric , putting the stock 5 better at 105½p . |
| 14 | He proved rather better at handling animals than his own family , who scattered in all directions — his wife to Israel , his younger son to America , and Wim to England . |
| 15 | However , by far the most common response from all parts of the country was ‘ they could relax and concentrate better at night as their minds would not be thinking about the jobs they should be doing ’ , . |
| 16 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 17 | They may need assistance in : how to be more objective ; becoming better at listening and communicating ; how the scheme will be managed and co-ordinated and so on . |
| 18 | While ideally this should be the chairman there may be someone even better at it in the group . |
| 19 | I 'm doing better at this all the time . |
| 20 | Some fare much better at retaining manufacturing jobs and creating service-sector jobs than others . |
| 21 | There is no one better at persuading people to do things they might not otherwise have been inclined to do . |
| 22 | There is no one better at perceiving likely growth points in geophysics , at getting the money to pursue them and at encouraging people to work on them . |
| 23 | * Older pupils do better at given questions than do younger ones . |
| 24 | Compared with normal controls , the MPD subjects fared much better at keeping the lists separate . |
| 25 | IBM with its £18000 million turnover does far better at IT than France Inc. with its £400000 million gross domestic product . |
| 26 | In the three years that followed , the Danzig Nazis became better at governing themselves and at developing strategies to exploit the increasing economic difficulties of the Free City . |
| 27 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 28 | It 's because it locks better at that groove . |
| 29 | Now , after two or three treatments , his coordination has improved and he is also doing much better at school . |
| 30 | Individually forged knives take longer to make , so they 're more expensive — but they 're more robust and better at cutting . |