Example sentences of "[coord] better [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other origins for the structure might be as well or better served by hot dark matter . |
| 2 | Martial acts might also be more dramatic or better recorded for wider public esteem . |
| 3 | This rule adds a consideration to those already discussed as being relevant to the scope of Ord. 53 , namely whether the High Court ( which hears AJRs ) or the alternative forum is more expert in dealing with the type of issue in question or better equipped to resolve it . |
| 4 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 5 | Finer I never saw or tasted from Barbados or better cured . |
| 6 | Of course , the motivation for playing this game is all the stronger when we have reason to resent the ‘ out group ’ for being more powerful or better resourced than we are , or not subject to the strains , pressures and tensions we face ( of course , because they are an ‘ out group ’ we know little about the problems that they have and we do not ) . |
| 7 | Business hospitality When business is done and the meeting concluded , nothing revives the hardworking executive like a glass of Scotch … and when it 's time to seal the deal with valued clients , there is no more fitting toast nor better appreciated mark of esteem than to offer the noble spirit . |
| 8 | Once treated fabric will be quicker drying , less absorbent and better insulated . |
| 9 | There is no doubt , however , that the programme envisaged for 1993 and beyond is more coherent , better balanced and better attuned to the realities of a professional game which is increasingly dependent on the success or failure of the England team . |
| 10 | Much of Jesus 's world has emerged from the haze of conjecture , speculation and mythic hyperbole , and is clearer and better documented than , say , the world of King Arthur . |
| 11 | Age Concern believes that the work of community health councils should be expanded and better funded , and that membership of voluntary organisations on CHCs should be increased , with the interests of elderly people represented . |
| 12 | We ca n't deliberately do not maintain those voluntary groups which we feel are appropriately and better funded by the health authority . |
| 13 | ‘ I retain a belief that by means of higher productivity and better crafted tax and welfare policies we could reduce poverty . |
| 14 | Personal memories : of the larger knots of passengers at reopened Templecombe than at most other stations between Exeter and Salisbury , a route far busier and better served than ten years ago ; but of travelling from Southampton to Newton Abbot via Westbury having dinner with a traveller from London to Crewkerne , the common Westbury-Taunton section way north of both passengers ' direct line being attractive because of the faster pace of HSTs . |
| 15 | The Spanish catalogue ( Museo del Prado , Pta 2500 ) is greatly superior to the Italian one ( Electa Napoli ) ; it is better edited and better printed and it does not illustrate Sgarbi 's croute . |
| 16 | Thus conservatives , supported by a violent press , and better represented in the Ordinary Cortes , felt able to challenge ‘ Jacobinism ’ . |
| 17 | Much of Europe now has its champion to watch on that famous , treacherous stretch ; and to many , the champion is better known and better loved than any politician . |
| 18 | Prince Charles is more respected and better loved than he realises . |
| 19 | Prince Charles is more respected and better loved than he realises . |
| 20 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |
| 21 | I prefer to pass over these and the other Strauss songs with orchestra , where there is little improvement , although both Morgen and Wiegenlied , where no pressure on tone is required , are ingratiatingly done and better tuned than Nilsson 's accounts with piano . |
| 22 | And better constructed , too . |
| 23 | The success of Crookes and his successors with evacuated tubes meant that the passage of electricity through gases was more studied and better understood than that through solids . |
| 24 | The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument . |
| 25 | Even so , Dr Neil 's modest home was larger and better appointed than most around Vetch Street , and was vast compared with the one stifling room she had briefly occupied in Crow Court . |
| 26 | The children who have gone to the country are much taller , stronger and better fed , they sleep longer and in every way they are alert and more easy to teach . |
| 27 | It goes on to recommend that role modelling should itself be the subject of teaching so that its functions may become more explicit and better recognised . |
| 28 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 29 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 30 | In the former ( and better recorded ) of these two Parliaments he spoke as a kind of expert witness about the problems connected with English cloth exports to the Netherlands , in favour of free speech ( in the context of Puritan attempts to silence pro-Catholics ) , and for measures being proposed against the taking of fees by office-holders being extended to lawyers in private practice . |