Example sentences of "[vb pp] better [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man 's voice will be heard better than a woman 's voice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 4 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 5 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 6 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 7 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 8 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 9 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 10 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 11 | Although , as we have seen , it is possible to step outside this framework , and find an alternative that seems to fit the life style of the person who has died better than a traditional church funeral , in practice it is extremely difficult to do this . |
| 12 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 13 | The Mackinnons lived here , on land owned by the Macdonalds , ‘ of the first rank of tenants ’ , Johnson wrote to Mrs Thrale , ‘ where we were entertained better than the landlords ’ . |
| 14 | Indeed , the interests of the capitalist class are served better when the state apparatus is not composed of members of this class than when it is , when the ‘ ruling class ’ is not the ‘ politically governing class ’ . |
| 15 | In the centre of this insert are two adjacent cleavage sites , i.e. GpA and ApT in the sequence GAT ; the GpA site is cut better than the overlapping ApT . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That said , the integration of the new players has gone better than the selectors must have hoped even in their most Panglossian moments . |
| 18 | No , they , they could of they could of afforded better than the |