Example sentences of "be better [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 2 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 3 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 4 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 5 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 6 | Heyrick 's philanthropy has been better recognized than her executive acumen , her grasp of power systems and of pressure-group politics , or her forceful analysis of the interdependence of social evils . |
| 7 | While inevitably losing office in 1660 , he cleared his accounts successfully , while years later Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] believed that the finances of the navy had never been better handled than while he was treasurer . |
| 8 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 9 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 10 | The trials and tribulations which beset Piggott after his riding career was over — imprisonment in October 1987 for tax fraud — do nothing to distract from his achievements in the saddle , and never have his skills been better demonstrated than when he won his twenty-eighth Classic . |
| 11 | The politician 's dilemma has never been better stated than by George Dempster in a letter which he wrote to Sir Adam Fergusson in 1783 : |
| 12 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |
| 13 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 14 | Indeed we have ‘ given the rod ’ to nations which have been better acquainted than ourselves with tyranny and inhumanity . |
| 15 | In general , the picture is still painted with a very broad brush and later stages are better characterized than early ones . |
| 16 | It has also been proposed that stimuli where accurate detection rests on some form of visuo-spatial ability are better perceived when projected to the right hemisphere . |
| 17 | It has also been proposed that stimuli where accurate detection rests on some form of visuo-spatial ability are better perceived when projected to the right hemisphere . |
| 18 | Modern research backs claims that plant extracts , such as lotus , used for greasy skin , are better tolerated than synthetic substitutes . |
| 19 | Certain kinds of object are better seen if they are lit from below . |
| 20 | It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes . |
| 21 | Alpine roads are better surfaced than they were , but still a patch of grit can start a front wheel sliding . |
| 22 | Fires are better prevented than put out and that 's the way the Profitboss views it , preferring to learn from the problem rather than go on a witch-hunt and blame someone for it . |
| 23 | People 's pets are better fed than some old age pensioners . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , there is a specific prediction to be examined and that is whether causally connected episodes are better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 25 | It 's a sad fact that machines are better maintained than bodies . |
| 26 | However , this is almost certainly not true of disorders like schizophrenia , which are better visualised as aberrations of otherwise normal physiological and psychological processes which for some reason pass beyond their usual adaptive limits ; here the term ‘ dysfunction ’ , rather than disease seems more appropriate . |
| 27 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 28 | In other words , the fact that we get most of our true beliefs from other people , whom we believe are better placed than we are to get them for themselves , is just a special case of the division of labour : namely , of epistemic labour , the labour of acquiring knowledge . |
| 29 | We are better placed than anyone to do it . |
| 30 | ‘ With such a cultural heritage , Koreans are better placed than many of us to appreciate the dangers which confront us and the need for action before it is too late . ’ |