Example sentences of "be better [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 | I am better than them at other things . |
| 5 | Two heads are better than one for Bruce Campbell . |
| 6 | They are better than me at some things . |
| 7 | Small steps are better than none at all . |
| 8 | We are better than other countries in some things and they are better than us in others . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 11 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 18 | Well , if you 'ave 'im two days at a time , it 's better than nowt at all in n it . |
| 19 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 20 | But I mean , su surely that that 's better than none at all ? |
| 21 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 22 | This is that a homeland with secure borders , however small , is better than nothing at all . |
| 23 | But a small sample for comparison is better than nothing at all . |
| 24 | A simple , rudimentary , half-cocked eye/ear/ echolocation system/cuckoo parasitism system , etc. , is better than none at all . |
| 25 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 26 | Even one night with Patrick Kelly was better than none at all . |
| 27 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 28 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |