Example sentences of "[verb] better [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Generally , records sell better than books , and publishers want to tap into that larger market . |
2 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
3 | Some communicate better than others . |
4 | Does he know better than doctors , nurses and the other health service staff whose life work has been delivering the service ? |
5 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
6 | So some streets were considered better than others ? |
7 | The distinctions near the bottom were equally interesting : barbers , bartenders and truck drivers , for instance , rated better than waiters , taxi drivers and night-watchmen , who in turn could look down slightly on gardeners , miners and dustmen . |
8 | Rescheduling was deemed better than default . |
9 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
10 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
11 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
12 | But other clubs facing similar conditions had done better than Leeds . |
13 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
14 | If people can choose their ‘ partners ’ freely , and if honest types can spot each other in advance , co-operators will be able to interact selectively with each other — and will therefore do better than cheats . |
15 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
16 | Some brands tie better than others , having a more slippery surface . |
17 | Some animals are preserved better than others ; groups of animals with long life spans leave fewer fossils than those with short lives ; and seasonal migrations may upset the pattern . |
18 | On the whole , the evidence ( P.A. Consultants , 1987 ) suggests that companies located in enterprise zones have performed better than firms located elsewhere in the local economy . |
19 | It is a matter of fact that over the past 12 months , Hinkley B has out-performed Hunterston B and Heysham 2 has performed better than Torness . |
20 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
21 | Obviously some clothiers fared better than others for there were quite a large number of bankruptcies between 1800 and 1840 . |
22 | It can be seen that , whilst all regions reflected the higher national unemployment rate , some regions fared better than others . |
23 | Roland Holder , the current Barbados captain , who fared better than Jimmy Adams in the preceding England ‘ A ’ tour , was not even mentioned in dispatches . |
24 | It is not quite a handicap system either but the point is that some sufferers can , for instance , swim better than others and may therefore go up a classification . |
25 | ‘ Anyway , the hut looked just the same ; things wear better than people , do n't they ? ’ |
26 | Some versions of a text convey better than others what the author originally wrote . |
27 | I know Macca comes in for a lot of stick from certain members but he 's by far the classiest midfielder in the country and a damm sight better than alot of the so called european geniuses . |
28 | Overall , a random sample of females will consistently perform better than males on tests of verbal ability , while males invariably outperform women on tests of mathematical reasoning and spatial relationships . |
29 | Small cetaceans would probably not fare better than birds after exposure to excessive quantities of organochlorines. indeed dolphins and porpoises may be particularly vulnerable because they apparently have a lower capacity for PCB degradation than birds . |
30 | For once we feel that we know better than Mozart . |