Example sentences of "better than [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , to revert to the question of the 11+ , the fact that girls as a group consistently did better than boys did not result in more grammar school places for girls . |
| 2 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 3 | Both she and Lubor had a glass of beer to go with it , and , having not been hungry , the meal went down much better than Fabia had anticipated . |
| 4 | To reverse the mode of operation of the Jokaero spying device in this manner , the Harlequin man must understand the technology better than Jaq did . |
| 5 | My knowledge of French was rather better than Benjamin knew . |
| 6 | It went better than Busacher had hoped . |