Example sentences of "[be] [adv] off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 2 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 3 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 4 | First it is a game which creates wealth through the process of production exchange and all players in the game ( i.e. those supplying labour services , property and capital ) are better off as a result of it . |
| 5 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |
| 6 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 7 | If you are determined to give up smoking , you are already off to a good start . |
| 8 | If you have to eat a cold chip , you 're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one . |
| 9 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
| 10 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |
| 11 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 12 | It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly . |
| 13 | Even so , people living in the highly technological societies do not feel fully content , and imagine that they might be better off with a return to primitive technical conditions . |
| 14 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
| 15 | Do n't you think you 'd be better off with a soft drink ? |
| 16 | Equally , from the tenant 's point of view the interest granted him under a tenancy at will is so precarious that he would almost always be better off with a fixed term to which the 1954 Act did not apply . |
| 17 | I think you 'd be better off with a with a new cooker and fridge |
| 18 | For example , if the patients ' bowels act too often or with great urgency , and espcially if there should be repeated episodes of faecal leakage or even frank incontinence , they might be better off with an ileostomy . |
| 19 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 20 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 21 | SULTRY Najma Akhtar was voted most popular international artist in the UK Asian Pop Awards this week — but her mother STILL thinks she 'd be better off as a doctor or a chemical engineer . |
| 22 | ‘ She 'd be better off in a house in Thirkett than stuck out here in that great barn of a place . |
| 23 | Very rare species have been known to be eliminated precisely because they are rare and would , in the collector 's opinion , be better off in a bottle in a museum for posterity . |
| 24 | Cardinals need a temperature between 73–79°F ( 23–26°C ) , and would be better off in a warmer tank of their own . |
| 25 | The male inmates who were accommodated in the House would be better off in a more suitable institution . |
| 26 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 27 | I 'm just off for a coffee . |
| 28 | A Labour victory would see house prices fall ‘ almost overnight ’ and a collapse in the value of pensions that would far outweigh the ‘ piffling promises ’ about most families being better off under a Kinnock government . |
| 29 | I also met the Marquess of Hartington , who , since he took over as Senior Steward of the Jockey Club in July , has worked extremely hard and is already greatly respected in that role ; also Mr and Mrs Johnny Henderson who were shortly off after a business trip to Australia via Bangkok , and home via Dubai , where alas , they arrive after I will have left : Mr and Mrs Malcolm Kimmins , he was one of the stewards ; the Hon. |
| 30 | A study published by the National Association of Citizens ' Advice Bureaux revealed that 80 per cent of the claimants seen by the bureaux were worse off as a consequence of the new system . |