Example sentences of "better [conj] those [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elinor 's difficulties were , at least from her description of the classes , bigger and better than those of her fellow therapees . |
| 2 | The realisation of this aim has remained elusive ; in all societies the children of the powerful do better than those of the powerless . |
| 3 | Thus , within the telecoms sector , graduates of the Paris-based ENST , which trains ‘ cadres supérieurs ’ for public and private sector telecom companies and operators , do generally better than those of ENST de Bretagne that trains ‘ highly qualified engineers ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Hitchin noted that Phoenix branches in shopping centres ‘ performed better than those on the high street ’ . |
| 5 | Walker ( 1975 ) in his study of mature students at Warwick University reports that students who did not meet the General Entrance Requirements ( GER ) had completion rates similar to those for all students , and somewhat better than those for mature students who met the GER . |
| 6 | testing at Tomduff found the situation there to be as good as or better than those with the existing producers of andalusite in South Africa . |
| 7 | Subjects with milder phenylketonuria did consistently better than those with a more severe disorder , but this advantage disappeared when allowance was made for their better phenylalanine control . |
| 8 | When the coach stopped and the students were asked to point to home , those without magnets performed significantly better than those with magnets . |
| 9 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 10 | I believe that the long training that doctors undergo enables psychiatrists to diagnose and prescribe better than those without this training . |
| 11 | Professor Madeley said : ‘ There is no doubt that patients with a strong network of friends do better than those without . ’ |
| 12 | A drop in net cash income of 5% is expected , with producers in the west and south central regions expected to fare slightly better than those in the north-east and mid-west . |
| 13 | If , for example , we find that the flowers in one corner of the garden do better than those in another corner , we make various comparisons between the two sites , and perhaps reach the conclusion that it is the lack of sunshine on the second site that is causing those flowers to do so badly . |