"But our claims to provide the greenest electricity in Britain are very well documented and founded, so we were surprised they chose to pursue this — it's been a bit of a waste of everybody's time".
Some of these criticisms are well founded, but even so Austin's work is of permanent value.
After all, if the British claim to Rockall is so well founded, surely the rituals of discovery – settlement, flag-waving – are all a bit beside the point?
So their anxiety is well founded.
"We focus on research in action, so our students are well founded in theory and research methodology as they build up their portfolios.
So their pessimism may indeed be well founded.
"Several pieces gave me cause for concern," Mr. Wilson said, "so the suspicions of my clients were well founded".
So maybe the fears about our results are not all that well founded after all.
Olfactory navigation is empirically well founded, but its way of operation and, in particular, the concrete olfactory inputs processed by the birds are so far unknown.
PARTRIDGE: It is so, but the implication is some dishonest approach to this problem, and that is not well founded.
Their faith seems well founded.
