Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv prt] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
| 2 | Where is equity when the idle are better off than the diligent ? |
| 3 | The Tutworker could have a reasonable income which was more or less guaranteed ; the Tributer was more in a position of winning or losing ; the Day Workers , with the lowest wages , were only hired as required but even so were better off than the local farm labourer ; bearing in mind that the mine was not a particularly unhealthy one . |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 5 | Lotus was slightly out and the 80 was an unmitigated disaster . |
| 6 | The day was almost over before the young men made their move . |