Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The residents overwhelmingly support the restructuring , with 82 per cent regarding their residential situation as better or somewhat better than before and only eight per cent feeling that it is worse . |
| 2 | ‘ Current frac pack completions are flowing at or slightly better than 100 percent efficiency . |
| 3 | IT systems are available now which can be trained by experts to perform decision making activities based on implicit information as well as , or even better than , the experts who have trained them . |
| 4 | Surely if Nick finds Clare attractive first thing in the morning , then nine o'clock at night out to be just as good ( or even better if you 're Clare ) ? |
| 5 | The Bolsheviks proved in the Civil War that they could defend the minorities just as well , or indeed better than the Tsarist regime had done in the Great War . |
| 6 | The ultimate strength of capitalist global hegemony is that it continually works , and works very hard , to persuade people that the system is natural , fair and fundamentally better than any realistic alternative . |
| 7 | Walker ( 1975 ) in his study of mature students at Warwick University reports that students who did not meet the General Entrance Requirements ( GER ) had completion rates similar to those for all students , and somewhat better than those for mature students who met the GER . |
| 8 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 9 | I did , in fact , feel better , certainly better than when the X-rays had been taken , and much better than the period immediately before that . |
| 10 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 11 | It was room 48. 48 was a good number ; not as good as 32 or 64 , but better than , say , 49 , and much better than 47 ( though that was interesting too because it was a prime ) . |
| 12 | A rat tested about 24 hours after being taught does as well as one tested just after being taught , and much better than one tested 12 hours after being taught . |
| 13 | But even that was inferior to Eisenhower , Kennedy and Johnson and hardly better than Nixon and Carter at the comparable stage in their presidencies . |
| 14 | Perhaps a hit all the same , and still better than anything Ziggy , Jamaica 's Julian Lennon , has ever done . |
| 15 | They are obviously not as powerful as Black Orcs , Big'uns or Boar Boyz , but they are much cheaper and still better than most opposition . |
| 16 | Quigley ( 1969 ) did find the Rochester Method ( fingerspelling with lip-reading ) better than the oral method and also better than signing for producing success in English . |
| 17 | You wo n't get your own room or anything but it 's free and probably better than nothing . ’ |
| 18 | The proposition that industrial co-operatives can create and distribute wealth at least as well and probably better than the traditional forms of industry had already been argued from cause to probable effect . |
| 19 | In all these ways , trade is quantitatively and qualitatively better than aid . |
| 20 | Thereafter , print quality was as good as any inkjet I 've seen — right up with the BJ-200 and slightly better than the DeskJet 500 . |
| 21 | And far better than any Congressional inquiry or suchlike ; I gather it 's a totally private proceeding . |
| 22 | Although simple , the circuit is capable of giving far higher fidelity than many standard power amplifiers on the market and substantially better than would be obtained from the headphone socket of a standard power amp . |
| 23 | However it can be argued , on the basis of the evidence reviewed above , that admissions tutors can offer places to many categories of non-traditionally qualified students , confident that they will perform at least as well as and often better than the traditionally qualified students , particularly those with only average or below average qualifications . |
| 24 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 25 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 26 | Survival was significantly better for patients without regional lymph node metastases ( stage 0 , I , IIA ( n=61 ) : 5 year survival 30% ) and even better if the tumour was restricted to the submucosa ( stage 0 , I ( n=12 ) : 5 year survival 63% ) . |
| 27 | Although pre-tRNAs are the biologically normal substrate for modifications in the cell , endtrimmed unmodified tRNAs are known to function equally well and sometimes better than pre-tRNAs as substrates in modification reactions ( 22 ) . |
| 28 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 29 | Far and away superior to those we had at our base RAF Hinaidi , and certainly better than those enjoyed by officers in the Mess . |
| 30 | However , the issue is not quite as simple as that-many individual sites within premier cru villages can , and do , consistently produce wines as good as the best grands crus and infinitely better than the worst . |