Example sentences of "[adv] better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And dear old Anne Gregg , now replaced by younger but not necessarily better Anneka Rice , was looking around Bude . |
| 2 | and Claire said to me oh well Labour if Labour get in we 'll get , we 'll get a , you know , we 'll be much better off , we 'll get a much better grant , er Jane goes but oh we 'll get , we 'll get every erm , my mum and dad will get loads of other things er dad , I wo n't be able to pay for it , I goes well no because you probably get , you get the housing benefit back |
| 3 | We have a 24-hour claims helpline ; breakdown assistance — if you have an accident , a tow-truck to come and pick up the car ; and much better documentation . ’ |
| 4 | Japan and western Germany are in much better shape . |
| 5 | Exercise is good for us and gives us a much better shape . |
| 6 | All the while , the self-regulatory framework , dominated largely by the extra legal rules of the City Panel on Take-overs and Mergers and the Council of the Securities Industry ( CSI ) , was generally in not much better shape and made reform unlikely . |
| 7 | As I noted in their recent Erato version of the Concerto , the Suisse Romande Orchestra is ‘ in very much better shape that it was in the 1950s and 1960s , and this new account supersedes earlier recommendations ’ . |
| 8 | Many approved of this , including one Brit rock press hack who 'd pronounced ‘ The Pogues ’ to be in much better shape than the real thing who 'd seen them not long before . |
| 9 | By regularly using your muscles , they will be firmer and in much better shape . |
| 10 | That is one of the reasons why I think that man is in much better shape than I think philosophy 's in . |
| 11 | Clearly it happens to er underline the fact that the United Kingdom economy is in much better shape when compared to the economies of our principal European competitors . |
| 12 | PLEASE TELL Grub Smith ( ‘ Hi , I 'm Grub and I 'm an Alcoholic ’ , February ) that we 've got much better drinking stories north of Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 13 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 14 | If there is to be a sit-down meal , you will then have a much better opportunity to get some good shots , hopefully without missing out on too much of the turkey yourself . |
| 15 | If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song . |
| 16 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 17 | Summat a all to be carried out in a much better spirit and both parties were pleased with the result . |
| 18 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 19 | The carrot would be much better Park and Ride , which is what they are talking about . |
| 20 | She spoke much better English than her husband and looked at Charlotte with a farther seeing eye . |
| 21 | She gives a much better exchange rate and gets forty per cent more lira for every pound , deutschmark or dollar she takes . |
| 22 | The resulting fuse was much more accurate and consistent in its timing , and had a much better resistance to water and the various kinds of treatment to which it was inevitably subjected in the mines . |
| 23 | And compared to me she 's a much better person than I 've ever been , she is , she 's wonderful , in , but granddad 's got a nice nature , granddad and that 's , that 's probably where she get 's it from , I 'm not . |
| 24 | If only we could return to the values of the past , many of us dream , how much better life would be ! |
| 25 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 26 | I know they did put in er a , a much better ferry they |
| 27 | Henry Bayly Garling 's Second Empire War Department design was considered by the critics to have been a much better choice for first prize than Coe and Hofland 's . |
| 28 | There is much better choice of gear for women , in fact we women have never had it so good . |
| 29 | On inquiring about the matter , I was told that the health common services authority had decided to move to the bay because it had been told by an independent property consultancy that it was a much better choice of location than anywhere else . |
| 30 | He says : ‘ The idea is to start producing high quality , home-grown product because it gives the Forum a much better choice . |