Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Howes , Branson 's lawyer , perhaps recognised better than most that Branson was in a period of significant transition . |
| 2 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 3 | It has thus fared better than a small party could expect , maintaining a PS almost equal to its PV and even on occasion slightly in excess of it . |
| 4 | I should think you 'd have easy done better than |
| 5 | KMT mavericks ( the so-called " non-mainstream " faction ) contested seats without official party endorsement and generally performed better than their " mainstream " counterparts , attacking alleged corruption within the " mainstream " ranks . |
| 6 | Consumer products , especially cosmetics and detergents , generally performed better than industrial and professional markets , both for detergents and food . |
| 7 | The pattern of sex differences was that girls generally scored better than the boys on the money and number pattern items and boys on the measures . |
| 8 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 9 | The musically gifted have probably fared better than most . |
| 10 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 11 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 12 | IBM 's Advanced Workstations & Systems president Bill Filip said last week that the company 's emergent RS/6000 business broke even or may have even done better than that in calendar 1992 though it was still ‘ overinvesting on development . ’ |
| 13 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 14 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 15 | It was said that Stoddart never played better than in 1890 when representing the South against the North — he scored 115 out of 169 — as Attewell , Barnes , Briggs , and Peel bowled against him . |