Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] better [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the , you know , certainly none of the Univers Helvetica stuff is remotely interesting — the Grotesque are all better than that . |
| 2 | The parameters used to select patients for the trial , however , could have indicated several remedies other than Rhus toxicodendron , and the chances of any particular patient responding to the Rhus toxicodendron were little better than might have been expected by chance alone . |
| 3 | I 'm afraid you 'll find that a volunteer force is much better than a pressed one . |
| 4 | We all know that one point five of thirty thousand pound is far better than one point five of three thousand pound , yet with the present government crisis the T U C lacks in leadership in building a campaign to reject the pay policy . |
| 5 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 6 | The message is loud and clear ; according to any measurement that we care to take , the Conservative Government 's record on the coal industry is significantly better than that of Labour . |
| 7 | That one conception is somehow better than a second , supposing that that can be made out , is of course not the proposition that it is our conception or one of them . |
| 8 | In fact the figure is much better than one would predict from composite theory ( Chapter 8 ) , supposing wood to behave like an artificial composite . |
| 9 | If you are very good otherwise at restricting your fat intake , this combination with black pepper is much better if the pineapple is fried in a little butter , for its juices and the butter together make a spectacular caramelised sauce . |
| 10 | A 4-1 defeat was marginally better than the 5-1 setback on Tuesday against the side who will be England 's key rivals for a semi-final place in their World Cup group in February . |
| 11 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 12 | Most of the reviews admitted slight disappointment before bowing to the fact that a flawed Smiths album was still better than anything else on offer . |
| 13 | The civil servants ' reluctance would be resolved by a ministerial directive that the project must be supported — some action was always better than none , the project would have an impact in several regions , if it worked it would boost exports and create employment . |
| 14 | Predictably , the experiments showed that comprehension and recall of this passage were significantly better when subjects were provided , before reading , with what Bransford & Johnson called ‘ the topic of the passage ’ . |
| 15 | I think the original ending is much better and fits into the jigsaw of the novel much better than the second ending . |
| 16 | Speaking at the opening of the event on a misty morning NSA Wales and Borders chairman Andrew Jones said : ‘ We as sheep farmers have been in the mist for some time , but lets hope that the outlook is much better and that there are better days to come . ’ |
| 17 | It is hard to see why a code in which GGC means glycine and AAG means lysine is either better or worse than one in which the meanings are reversed . |
| 18 | A second was even better and could be made readily available from commercial growers . |
| 19 | The footpath on the left bank of the burn was little better than a sheep track , but there were clues to its former importance as a droving road over the hills to Byrness in Redesdale . |
| 20 | Note that speaker 1 ( aged twelve — preadolescent ) was incorrectly judged to be white by nearly all respondents , but that the black group were slightly better than the white at identifying speaker 5 ( aged sixteen — adolescent ) . |
| 21 | Their points difference is vastly better than Rugby 's who are standing alongside them at the bottom and surely there was no way that a team as disadvantaged as Rugby could beat a team as talented as the Harlequins . |
| 22 | They have to the Atari , right you load this in a word processing in a path games are venture and the sound is much better than Amiga on the Amiga er the graphics are better on the Amiga and but the Atari ST is slightly easier to program . |
| 23 | In any case , there will be no alternative before long … and the gradual process is much better than waiting for the axe to fall . ’ |
| 24 | Said Aldrich , ‘ There 's no doubt that my work as a director is much better if there is n't a producer . |
| 25 | With 2 cm plexiglass the shielding was slightly better than with 1 cm ( 95.57±0.08% vs 94.07±0.06% , p<10 -6 , shielding 1 vs 2 ) , but efficient shielding was only obtained using lead ( shielding 3–6 ) . |
| 26 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 27 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 28 | The seed was defective and the resulting crop was little better than useless . |
| 29 | Joe Lucas ' new room was hardly better than his first . |
| 30 | An intra-muscular injection from a qualified person is always better than feeding medicated food because the dosage can be relied upon ; because only the targeted fish receives the medication , and because there is evidence that antibiotics applied indiscriminately can build up resistant strains of bacteria . |