Example sentences of "[adv] better [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The independent Red Army press was rather better adapted to its readership . |
| 2 | " With his characteristic forthrightness — perhaps better adapted to engineering projects than affairs of the heart — he started his investigations " wrote his son later . |
| 3 | HCIMA has been working closely with ARA Services to see how the standard can apply to catering and John Sharpe FHCIMA , the company 's quality development director , admits that contract caterers , unburdened by the extra difficulties caused by owning premises , are perhaps better suited to the concept than other sectors and will increasingly be asked in tender documents about their approach to BS7750 and its quality assurance forerunner 5750 . |
| 4 | She is perhaps better known to the local community for her involvement with two Gaelic choirs . |
| 5 | Although triticale will never replace wheat , it is a vitally important addition to the armoury needed to defeat famine , precisely because it is so much better adapted to the marginal lands on which so many of the poor and hungry live . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 7 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 8 | She is much better suited to this B format , and coronet is reissuing its titles in B during this year . |
| 9 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 10 | The probabilistic approach proved to be much better suited to the task . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps they are just better suited to this sort of race and these headwinds , ’ added the man with a house 50 yards from the Thames at Putney . |
| 12 | Mhm , do you think that women are just better suited to these jobs , is that right ? women . |
| 13 | Fleece garments vary in weight and thickness — the lighter versions are usually better suited to more active roles , while the heavier ones come into their own during very cold conditions , or as evening wear around camp . |
| 14 | The system is a heavy user of both men and machines and so is probably better suited to contractors and larger farmers . |
| 15 | It does give high work rates , but is probably better suited to larger farmers and contractors . |
| 16 | It is very complexed and probably better left to a qualified solicitor . |
| 17 | Numbers are also better suited to computer operations with the result that the process of searching the tree is made computationally simple . |
| 18 | Process rights can however , as we shall see , be fashioned in other ways which may be both better suited to the needs of particular areas , and ago better attain the instrumental and non-instrumental values which process rights are designed to serve . |
| 19 | Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work . |
| 20 | Even Smolenskaia derevnia , an organ specifically designed for local peasant consumption and far better attuned to Belorussian interests than Bednota , was criticized in 1923 for insufficient contact with village life . |
| 21 | On the evidence of this book , he is far better suited to winning the election than to succeeding in the presidency . |
| 22 | I decided the bird was far better suited to the conditions than me . |
| 23 | However , as the epitome of laddish nonchalance , the Inspirals seem unconcerned : Tom says he 's simply grateful that they had an experience — however fleeting — of life as arena-rockers , while bassist Bungle is sure that the pared-down stuff on ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ is far better suited to compact places like Rock City than cavernous concert halls . |
| 24 | 1/ The author is making the point that there is no benefit for people in spending huge amounts of money creating something which has no practical use , and that this money would be far better allocated to essentials ie housing , food , water etc rather than luxuries like T.V.s , videos etc . |
| 25 | And what is more , the clichés used by Mome Elwis are at least better suited to the cleric than anything the clerk can come out with : ( " I can do no other deed but say my paternoster and my creed to Christ for my misdeeds , and my Ave Maria — I am sorry for my sins — and my de profundis for all who remain in sin , for I am good for nothing else — Christ knows that , the king of heaven . " ) |
| 26 | Their use is therefore better suited to environments such as the rhizosphere/soil , protected crops , or tropical conditions ( eg paddy fields ) , where the water potential is likely to be more amenable to spore germination and growth . |