Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 2 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 3 | The latter finding arose from an observation by Brown and his colleagues ( 1966 ) that patients discharged to live alone or in a hostel often fared rather better than those who went to live with a spouse or parent . |
| 4 | Mary Leapor has , of course , fared somewhat better than Elizabeth Hands . |
| 5 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 6 | Some had fared considerably better than others , leading to a differentiated society . |
| 7 | Some — especially those in the south or those with a wide range of incentives such as regional and European Community assistance — have done much better than others . |
| 8 | Although average sales per outlet have shown a slight decrease in each of the last five years , some of our licensees have done much better than others . |
| 9 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 10 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 11 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 12 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 13 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually , you 've done far better than I expected . |
| 15 | This is excellent news which will be made even better if , in the next few days , her colleagues and headline writers refrain from prefacing every mention of her name with the words brave , courageous , etc. etc . |
| 16 | Even this , in its way a successful transaction , had done no better than limp lamely to its achievement . |
| 17 | It might have done considerably better than that . |
| 18 | The ANDF version of SVR4 performed slightly better than the Unix code generated by a native C compiler , Praxis claims . |
| 19 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 20 | Should general SVQs be able to differentiate students who have performed significantly better than required ? |
| 21 | Alkalinity , though tolerated rather better than acidity , increases the toxicity of ammonia and reduces the availability to fish of essential mineral elements such as iron and copper ( in the case of iron a deficiency could produce anaemia ) . |
| 22 | The shadow budget was also politically inept , although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were . |
| 23 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 24 | We Westerners find it hard to understand or admire the growth and success of Islamic fundamentalism , but the traditional Muslims have realised far better than the ‘ progressives ’ that if you want to resist consumerism and individualism then you have to capture the public ground and control the country from the centre . |
| 25 | Æthelred can be known little better than Cnut or most other early medieval kings . |
| 26 | ‘ In my opinion the period from three to six is the most important and should be utilised much better than it is today . |
| 27 | So far things had gone much better than she had expected . |
| 28 | For the sequence T(AT) 8 CG(AT) 15 ( Figure 1b and 2b ) the ApT steps are cut much better than the single central GA site . |
| 29 | To be fair , some stations , for example the one at Hinkley Point in Somerset , have worked much better than this description suggests , and the two latest examples , at Heysham in Lancashire and Torness in Scotland , look more promising . |
| 30 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |