Example sentences of "better [prep] [noun] than [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maritza and the new Luxembourg were better for Therese than he liked , but he 'd got her pushed out of the Baron and she would really look very silly singing Arsena , which was the juvenile role even if it was fairly static — and she would be even more ridiculous playing Sonja in Der Zarewitsch . |
| 2 | In a word , I suppose I think he succeeds better with Eve than he does with Adam . |
| 3 | Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly . |
| 4 | Batsford 's resin-based products also look far better in water than they do out . |
| 5 | If so , it is certain that the quality of the professional advice will not be any better in Scotland than it was in England and Wales . |
| 6 | We both detested Katherine Mansfield and her whining , coarse letters , and we were aware that our private jokes and Ivyisms would look no better to outsiders than her Dickensianisms and her ‘ my strikes ! ’ . |
| 7 | Maybe the disguise was better at distance than I was prepared to believe . |
| 8 | She was much better at shooting than I was . |