Example sentences of "better than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good sense about trivialities ’ , he once wrote , ‘ is better than nonsense about things that matter . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 3 | Those who for whatsoever reason have no roof over their heads are no better than deer to be hunted down . ’ |
| 4 | Things certainly look better than back in the late Eighties , when he went unemployed for nearly two years . |
| 5 | ‘ Rosyth is hands-down better than Devonport for safety , development and everything else . |
| 6 | Most knitting machines are capable of producing double bed tuck fabric , but some are better than others at making the more complex designs . |
| 7 | Some medical specialisms , especially geriatric medicine , are much better than others at arranging effective transfer . |
| 8 | Some are better than others of course but er |
| 9 | Some designs are far better than others regarding the linkages associated with this control . |
| 10 | Some people are better than others in the use of words , but for some feelings , words always seem grossly inadequate . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , LP often fares better than SP under these conditions because the noise-bar interference on the picture tends to be less for LP . |
| 12 | Anything was better than dwelling on whatever was in his mind now . |
| 13 | The idea that life in the community is better than life in a hospital has , for decades , been an article of faith for mental health workers . |
| 14 | To halt the decline the Hereford Herd Book Society is planning to label beef from the breed in butchers shops.It says Hereford beef tastes better than meat from Continental breeds.And it 's cheaper to produce , because Herefords are fattened on grass rather than on expensive cereals . |
| 15 | In many of these projects France , we shall argue , apparently succeeds better than Britain in equating the defence of national champions with European joint ventures . |
| 16 | He is ceratinly better than Lukic with crosses , he catches it whereas lukic would punch or drop leading to panic . |
| 17 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 18 | They 'd be much better than glasses with this jumping across country you 're doing . |
| 19 | A reward was offered for the head of every Macgregor delivered to the laird ; families were encouraged to betray their own people with promises of pardon ; women were branded on the forehead ; children were sold as little better than slaves to Lowland and Irish cattle dealers . |
| 20 | Ca n't imagine anyone better than Emma for sorting things out , really . ’ |
| 21 | much better than plants in the house . |
| 22 | He 'd have to say yes , because he 's sorry for us , I heard him tell Richard we were no better than waifs of the storm , and we should ruin the upholstery , and be taking advantage of his kindness . " |
| 23 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 24 | They have to the Atari , right you load this in a word processing in a path games are venture and the sound is much better than Amiga on the Amiga er the graphics are better on the Amiga and but the Atari ST is slightly easier to program . |
| 25 | And half of all women think they are BETTER than men at money matters , says a survey of 1,000 women by Good Housekeeping magazine with American Express . |
| 26 | Older children prefer humour to violence , says Moffat , and when it comes to watching adult television , they like nothing better than soaps like Neighbours and Home and Away , which may tackle tough issues , but approach them with a certain old-fashioned morality , and contain little violence . |
| 27 | We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one . |
| 28 | Heater probe treatment of bleeding ulcer may be better than sclerosis with alcohol for stopping acute haemorrhage . |
| 29 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |
| 30 | Prohibition of drugs , they say , works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States . |