Example sentences of "better than they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 2 | Whales look better than they taste |
| 3 | Are you optimistic that erm people will perceive the services under this budget as better than they 've had last year , or worse ? |
| 4 | Dealers generally found trading better than they had expected — or feared — and reported that French clients , notoriously sensitive to political events , had been reassured by the right wing 's win in the General Election and the appointment of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur 's new Government . |
| 5 | The cumulative effect was that by Anne 's reign relations between Dissenters and Anglicans in many communities were no better than they had been in the 1680s . |
| 6 | So let us be serious : our purpose here is not to kid anybody , to try to convince you that things are any better than they seem . |
| 7 | And to a very large degree , that has been erm , achieved , and I think that erm , the prospects for the county council for ninety-four five are now much better than they appeared to be a year ago , and er , I think the prospects for ninety-five six will need to be looked at through the budget review sub-committee and this committee at an early stage , and I 'm sure that the workman-like way in which it 's addressed it 's business is a good sign for the future . |
| 8 | they 're eating better than they did at dinner time . |
| 9 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 10 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |
| 11 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |