Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the better " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thinks rather the better of Phyllis Bottome for wanting to believe that what had to happen could in fact have been averted . |
| 2 | Indeed , the party might well stay in power unless the Liberals win outright since it has much the better chance of putting together a coalition with other parties . |
| 3 | But it has been said before we should have professional referees — the sooner it 's sorted out the better . |
| 4 | ‘ As far as I am concerned , madame , the sooner we get our affairs sorted out the better . |
| 5 | We 're talking about a lot of money here , that has been spent , and has continued to be spent , and the sooner we get it sorted out the better , and I 'd like to see it on the agenda of the next budget review committee , which would prior to the policy committee , I believe next , and so we could perhaps augment er , Mr 's report with some findings of our own . |
| 6 | You 'll feel all the better for it . " |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll probably feel all the better for it . |
| 8 | When the champion hurdler , Beech Road , and Morley Street won at Cheltenham ten days ago it was hard to say which put up the better performance and which would be the stable 's first choice for the Champion Hurdle should both be trained for the race . |
| 9 | For instance erm we would give certainly the better M S ones the smaller jobs to project manage , but that has to be very carefully thought about . |
| 10 | Scotland coach Douglas Morgan accepted : ‘ It 's a bit of a blow but the sooner Iain goes home the better , as depending on the results of the probe , he could still be available for the World Cup sevens at Murrayfield . ’ |
| 11 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
| 12 | The sooner I get away the better ! |
| 13 | ‘ The sooner we get this scum banged away the better . ’ |
| 14 | The sooner DOL gets back the better IMO . |
| 15 | The less that gets out the better , whatever happens . ’ |
| 16 | The quicker Taylor gets out the better . |
| 17 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 18 | Council house building has all but stopped , while sales have stripped out the better stock . |
| 19 | Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints . |
| 20 | ‘ I feel all the better for that . |
| 21 | I feel all the better for it ! " " |
| 22 | The reconnaissance parties divided up their gear , to share out the better UK equipment , before COPP 3 sailed in HMS Unbending for a reconnaissance of the beaches between Sciaco and the river Belice , some 15 miles ( 24km ) of coast on the south-west shores of Sicily . |
| 23 | We learnt that working together was a lot easier than going solo ; but arguing brought out the better ideas . ’ |
| 24 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 25 | She felt all the better for it . |
| 26 | And he felt all the better for it . |
| 27 | The result is that Jarvis has put on more than half a stone — he 's up to 11 and ahalf now — and feels all the better for it . |
| 28 | But people felt generally the better for his ‘ Quite ’ at conferences , and so did the guests at his baffling feast . |
| 29 | Nope … the earlier they go out the better . |
| 30 | It is never too late , but the sooner you do so the better . |