Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 2 | It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option . |
| 3 | But Indian manager Amrit Mathur claimed he had no objections , saying : ‘ There is no evidence that a team plays any better if everyone is in bed by 8pm . ’ |
| 4 | If you are nervous , console yourself with the thought that the initially nervous speaker often performs far better than the stolid chap with no nerves . |
| 5 | ‘ I told Jim to believe that he competes significantly better than most players . |
| 6 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 7 | Even if this classification scheme could be improved upon , it clearly serves far better than the traditional indicators in identifying those areas most in need of extra resources , in order to compensate for poverty and deprivation , through educational and personal social service provision . |
| 8 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 9 | He works much better when he has plenty of space around him , and when his name is , metaphorically or literally , the only one above the title . |
| 10 | NIGEL Clough knows perhaps better than anyone how England are flirting with a losing game that can become a terminal habit . |
| 11 | It demonstrates perhaps better than any other , the changes in medieval military fortification . |
| 12 | My advice , if it did , would be to bear in mind that ridicule works best better than invective . |
| 13 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 14 | This works even better when you pre-tag the text so that when the document is read into the page makeup program all the basic work has been done for you . |