Example sentences of "do better than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 2 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 3 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 4 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 5 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 6 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 7 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 8 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 9 | In restaurants — his tastes were no more sophisticated now than before , but occasionally he would do better than the Corner House — he would still order at the top of his voice , still hoping to be recognized . |
| 10 | Unskilled workers tend to do better than the professionals , enjoying the advantages of a free market for the first time in their lives . |
| 11 | Indeed , this variation in size very closely matches their performance : those larger than average tend to do better than the GCD , and those smaller tend to do worse . |
| 12 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 13 | LLOYD 'S is still doing better than the corporate insurers said David Coleridge , chairman of Lloyd 's . |
| 14 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 15 | Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign . |
| 16 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |
| 17 | Firms that did better than the target would be rewarded with credits which they could sell to firms that did worse . |
| 18 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 19 | On most of these the boys did better than the girls , especially on drawing and visualization items . |
| 20 | Speaker 3 appears to be a counter-example to this , in that the black group did better than the white group in guessing her to be black , although the difference was not statistically significant . |
| 21 | I think in broad terms we can say that er , Les Echo comparatively did better than the F T. |
| 22 | ‘ Funnily enough I was only third choice , but did better than the other two British swimmers , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Ironically I was also third in the trials before Paris , but was sent that time and , as I have said , did better than the other two . ’ |
| 24 | Chapman hopes Leeds do better than the Arsenal team he played for in his last European appearance 10 years ago . |
| 25 | I think in the end the tortoise does better than the hare . |