Example sentences of "better [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I remember it , on the occasion when she first accosted us , you told her that she would be better off at home with a baby on her knee . ’ |
| 2 | I know I 'm better off at home at the moment . |
| 3 | I 'd be better off at home with all those kids ! |
| 4 | ‘ Nor have I ever suggested to any working woman that she 'd be better off at home where she belongs . |
| 5 | Thus annoying Mrs Drubb and convincing her that she would be better off at Almsmead looking after Amabel . |
| 6 | In some ways , he may be better off at Birmingham — nearer to Richard , & to all his pals and usual haunts . |
| 7 | Harry laughed about this , saying that childbirth was like shelling peas to a woman , and that he 's be better off at sea after the mackerel than moping about at home and getting in the way of the womenfolk . |
| 8 | We are 9lb better off at Ayr so we 've got to fancy our chances . ’ |
| 9 | Keegan knows he 's better off at Newcastle . |
| 10 | The Employment Secretary has told jobless people in Gloucestershire the county is better off for work than most places … even though dole queues have doubled in the last two years . |
| 11 | Would n't she be far better off with Dunbar , who could give her everything she wanted ? |
| 12 | As much as she wanted Kirsty to be with her , she could see that she might be better off with Jake . |
| 13 | You would be better off with part of the tank being filtered by undergravel and the other part having a sand base . |
| 14 | It is always laborious to find the components of a vector , so we are not much better off with A than with H or B. It turns out however that A is a more basic quantity of physics than B. Since B is given by the curl of A it is possible that A is finite while its curl is zero . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps we were better off with silence . ’ |
| 16 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 17 | Those of you who have no desire to program applications will probably be better off with Access , were it not for Borland 's tasty special offer price . |
| 18 | So I said , you go and I said , do n't be as biased as I am I said do n't go there thinking oh there 's no way you know she 's I 'm better off with Sue and all that because I said you do n't know I said you |
| 19 | We 'd be better off with Rocastle and Mickey Thomas than what we 've got now . |
| 20 | We may be better off with health care contracts if money follows the patient as the government er intends it to do , but we just do n't know and that 's what we 're investigating at the present time . |
| 21 | Seven out of ten families in Darlington would be better off under Labour 's fair rent proposals . |
| 22 | Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air : Would we have been better off without Home Rule ? |
| 23 | It was a distressing part of his duty to have to tell people things they were better off without hearing . |
| 24 | But of the winners only 2 per cent are shown to be better off by £2 a week , whereas 39 per cent of losers will be asked to pay a local poll tax that is more than £2 above their then current rate contribution ( Poll Tax Facts , no. 9 , Local Government Information Unit , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | How could the government be better off by privatization ? |
| 26 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 27 | Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar when she claimed 88 per cent of claimants would be better off after changes to social security benefits introduced in April 1988 . |
| 28 | First , her brother is self-evidently a petty fraudster better off behind bars . |
| 29 | We know that we are far better off in Europe — indeed , we are well off in Europe — and far better off in Europe than out . |
| 30 | We know that we are far better off in Europe — indeed , we are well off in Europe — and far better off in Europe than out . |