Example sentences of "[adv] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 32 | Æthelred can be known little better than Cnut or most other early medieval kings . |
| 33 | One side gets a little better because the other side has . |
| 34 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 35 | Margaret had been coping a little better and her sleep pattern had returned to normal . |
| 36 | ‘ Then it got a little better and as long as he knew Andre was close by , he felt secure . |
| 37 | As I said at the beginning , conditions were a little better and bream were rolling and giving line bites . |
| 38 | Since the QT Meeting on the 7th has indicated that she is feeling a little better and for the time being is willing to continue as the Teachers ' Representative , however , it is possible that in the future she may require assistance to carry out her duties . |
| 39 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 40 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 41 | The Official History of the Ryder Cup by Michael Williams is well researched and therefore surprisingly interesting while Ryder Cup ‘ 89 conveys the atmosphere of the event rather better than most instant histories . |
| 42 | By the next Prime Minister 's Questions on Thursday she knew the policy rather better than we did . |
| 43 | His first election was 1959 , when the polls did rather better than this year . |
| 44 | Woosnam , who was playing with Parry , salvaged a 73 which left him sharing fifth place with Price , four off the lead , which was rather better than it might have been . |
| 45 | Hardly a welcome comment on the mentality of this nation 's youth who , no doubt , understood Morrissey 's ambiguous lyrics rather better than the tabloids . |
| 46 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 47 | In the air at around 3,500 feet I found that , provided one held it with the antenna close to horizontal , the ICOM IC-A20 MkII could produce quite accurate VOR indications at distances of well over 25 nm from the VOR — rather better than my own King KX99 does . |
| 48 | Pammy Jane knows Charles rather better than she does Princess Diana . |
| 49 | Alkalinity , though tolerated rather better than acidity , increases the toxicity of ammonia and reduces the availability to fish of essential mineral elements such as iron and copper ( in the case of iron a deficiency could produce anaemia ) . |
| 50 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |
| 51 | The new pathway students were not identified by tutors in the clinical clerkships , and unreported data collected by Dr Gordon Moore , who coordinated the introduction of the scheme , suggest that new pathway students tended to be assessed as rather better than those who had come through the traditional route . |
| 52 | Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Sugar show rather better than Prince Charles , Ben Elton or Mick Jagger . |
| 53 | Like the scouts at the TT races , it seems , the Japanese studied their subject , and now work the system rather better than the natives do . |
| 54 | In terms of sampling the curriculum , examinations do rather better than most testing programmes . |
| 55 | Devise your method and then tell your story , which inevitably will make the mystery seem rather better than it has to be , because all locked rooms are variants of a small number of simple devices , most of which are ways of making such rooms unlocked all along . |
| 56 | When it came to recovery , Britain did rather better than many leading competitors . |
| 57 | Five ‘ O ’ Levels , including English Language , was the normally acceptable minimum , though popular subjects , universally taught in secondary schools , could expect that most students would offer a level of qualification rather better than that . |
| 58 | He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany . |
| 59 | and it was in this field that the pluralists most persistently attempted to combine empirical methods with assumptions which , if they were not entirely Madisonian , at least fitted prevailing norms rather better than the emerging stark elitism . |
| 60 | He was vaguely aware that he was driving rather better than usual . |