Example sentences of "be [adj -er] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 3 | However , USL has recently claimed that it will configure Destiny to run applications of all persuasions — including Solaris — ( UX No 380 ) , Zander says ‘ if they can do that they 're better than anyone in the world . ’ |
| 4 | Okay so , income elasticities are less than one for agriculture , whereas they 're greater than one for manufacturing er , much less scope to differentiate in agricultural products , much more scope to differentiate in manufactured goods . |
| 5 | I am better than them at other things . |
| 6 | Two heads are better than one for Bruce Campbell . |
| 7 | They are better than me at some things . |
| 8 | Small steps are better than none at all . |
| 9 | We are better than other countries in some things and they are better than us in others . |
| 10 | You can probably stay at places that are older than anything in Australia — older than Australia itself . |
| 11 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 12 | There 's plenty of room , as you can see , and I 'm certain that two hands must be better than one in a veterinary practice . |
| 13 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 14 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 15 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |
| 16 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |
| 17 | And you know something , I 'm older than you by two and a half months . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd be faster than me at long distance , by a long way . |
| 19 | Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time . |
| 20 | In book three of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , he wrote : ‘ Guidebooks that are inaccurate and unreliable are worse than none at all … |
| 21 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |
| 22 | ‘ In terms of general plant , Piper was bigger than us , while we were larger than them as crane operators , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 24 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 25 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 26 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 27 | Obviously a point with a higher weight is brighter than one with a lower weight . |
| 28 | Well , if you 'ave 'im two days at a time , it 's better than nowt at all in n it . |
| 29 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 30 | But I mean , su surely that that 's better than none at all ? |