Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | ‘ Sometimes I can relate to animals much better than people ’ she says . |
| 3 | After Aberdeen last week , we should have offered the fans much better than that . ’ |
| 4 | The group pioneered the use of Hidden Markov Model techniques and were able to demonstrate performances far better than HARPY ( Bahl et al , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You know at my age you recall the first twenty years far better than the second — or the third . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Employment prospects were also at least as good and in some cases slightly better than for school leaver entrants . |
| 10 | Thinking in terms of interest defined as power , we think as he does , and as disinterested observers we understand his thoughts and actions perhaps better than he , the actor on the political scene , does himself . |
| 11 | Seb protested that it was no work for a girl , realising that the horses might panic when they saw the manor burning , but Carrie said , ‘ I know the stalls even better than you . |
| 12 | The larger or very intensive farmers had generally used training to prepare themselves and their men much better than the smaller units . |
| 13 | So long as two key sequences do not produce overlapping remainders this can achieve results considerably better than true randomization . |
| 14 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 15 | Some places fared better for charity than others , the towns probably better than the countryside . |
| 16 | c Degree Performance — Most research has indicated that non-traditionally qualified students perform at least as well as , and in some cases considerably better than , traditionally qualified students when degree performance ( measured by percentages achieving ‘ good ’ degrees ) is considered . |
| 17 | Hardly a welcome comment on the mentality of this nation 's youth who , no doubt , understood Morrissey 's ambiguous lyrics rather better than the tabloids . |
| 18 | The Pharaonic monuments , solidly constructed from massive blocks , withstood the seismic shocks far better than later buildings . |