Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I hardly knew Will much better when we were married . |
| 4 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes I can relate to animals much better than people ’ she says . |
| 6 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 7 | After Aberdeen last week , we should have offered the fans much better than that . ’ |
| 8 | Men teachers claim to understand what was required for the review slightly better than women , to experience slightly more preliminary discussion about the review and to take more part in staff questionnaires as a review strategy . |
| 9 | The group pioneered the use of Hidden Markov Model techniques and were able to demonstrate performances far better than HARPY ( Bahl et al , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Conditions were far from ideal for batting , with the light never better than moderate : there were two interruptions during the stand ; one for lunch and a second , lasting 27 minutes , for rain . |
| 11 | A few large landowners were stirred by their consciences to build , for reasons of philanthropy rather than economy , new ‘ model ’ cottages and villages , but these were usually on their own estates where conditions were in any case generally better than elsewhere . |
| 12 | I remember the name Hulterstad rather better than the place . |
| 13 | As the man who first hired Penn for Vogue magazine and who encouraged him to create the colour still-life that launched his career as a photographer in 1943 , Liberman is also one who knows the artist and his work perhaps better than anyone . |
| 14 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 15 | Would you not think a statute prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape distinctly better than a statute prohibiting abortion except to women born in one specified decade each century ? |
| 16 | They were excused few , if any , tasks , Hannah may appear to be a frail pensioner but a lifetime 's exposure to the hard labour of rural life enables her to endure the most extreme elements far better than urban-reared people half her age . |
| 17 | He became the fourth of the afternoon to be caught behind off one which left him , this time off Watson , who did the stock-bowler 's job much better than Pringle and in Christchurch . |
| 18 | In Britain , however , because of ministerial responsibility and because of the suspicion that the appropriate ministry could do the job much better than a new , inexperienced board ( which usually has a lower calibre of staff ) , the ministries concerned have their own sections on tourism , forestry and the countryside which go over everything the board in question proposes , giving authorizations , suggestions or exercising a veto . |
| 19 | Rex Wolfe , Northern Regional Manager , knew Eddie perhaps better than anyone , having worked with him as a colleague and friend for many years . |
| 20 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 21 | I could prove my point much better if I kept on , I 'm determined , so I kept on . |
| 22 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 23 | However , I felt that someone else could do the job far better than I , so I have declined . ’ |
| 24 | The head need n't take the role of guide , a child can often do the job far better than an adult . |
| 25 | Instead , she said , ‘ I 'm sure someone else would do the job far better than I. ’ |
| 26 | You know at my age you recall the first twenty years far better than the second — or the third . |
| 27 | Sometimes a crisis focuses the attention far better than if you 're doing well . |
| 28 | The change did not mean that the new recruits to Parliament were any less committed to socialism : indeed , many of them probably understood its teachings even better than had the bulk of MPs of the pre-war era . |
| 29 | He added that while ICI 's vigorous reshaping programme last year helped the company weather the storm slightly better than some of its rivals , the recession still remains its greatest problem . |
| 30 | Employment prospects were also at least as good and in some cases slightly better than for school leaver entrants . |