Example sentences of "[verb] have better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singapore has had better luck than Hong Kong at diversifying its export markets ; but America is still a big one , and America is in recession . |
| 2 | But they will take a lot of convincing that any county has had better value from their ‘ foreign ’ recruit this season than they had out of Dean Jones before his early departure to join the Australian party to tour Sri Lanka . |
| 3 | The three other countries were said to have better systems of information — information used by communities , by employers and by individuals . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Dorothy , I know it is n't easy for you here , but I honestly do n't think you 're going to have better luck anywhere else . |
| 5 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 6 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 7 | Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer . |
| 8 | Such an approach appears to have better effects than medication . |
| 9 | Schools must calculate the ‘ True cost ’ of letting facilities which will probably reflect an increase in charges , but will generally want to have better facilities and community involvement to attract recruitment . |
| 10 | The picture is very variable but , as might be expected , larger settlements tend to have better services . |
| 11 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had better days ! ’ he drawled . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've had better tarts , ’ he said , and , walking to the door as she struggled into a sitting position , trying to restore her ruined self , for at some time she must leave the room and face her shattered world , he flung her his final insult . |
| 14 | We 've had better nights down the Rock Garden . |
| 15 | Have had better atmosphere 's at funerals — i was in the kop just to the right of the goal and other than the odd comment from fellow fans around me it 's the quitest it 's ever been when I 've gone . |
| 16 | It also claims to have better integer performance than the mid-range IBM RS/6000 model 540 . |