Example sentences of "better than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like them better than the modern ones . |
| 2 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 3 | Best Group Video : Even Better Than The Real Thing — U2 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ultra Violet ( Light My Way ) ’ was one of the highlights , ‘ Even Better Than The Real Thing ’ kicked hard , ‘ One ’ was scintillating and ‘ Love Is Blindness ’ hypnotic and powerful against a backdrop of city lights in black and white on the video screens . |
| 5 | The normally aspirated Ninety diesel should perform better than the 2.25 Series III vehicles you have run before . |
| 6 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 7 | Much better than the quoted loss projected of £12,728 . |
| 8 | This can then be searched over a Local Area Network by up to 25 users simultaneously , a speed performance ten times better than the best CD-ROM can normally offer . |
| 9 | Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 . |
| 10 | GIBSON ES-335 Dot reissue , 1981 , beautiful blonde , immaculate condition , better than the usual Gibson quality , £575 ono . |
| 11 | Even the gourd comes off better than the poor whale , who is no more than a floating prison where Jonah spends three days purging his contempt of court . |
| 12 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 13 | In part , this stems from society 's ability to handle risk better than the private individuals on whom it falls , and who therefore require large profits in compensation . |
| 14 | They comment on the Mayoress of Winchelsea 's excellent punch , ‘ each bowl better than the former one ’ , and at Dr Fuller 's in Sevenoaks they enjoyed ‘ venison pasty , plus the strongest drink in the country ’ . |
| 15 | But for the whole economy the increase is only 1.9 per cent , better than the 1970s but lower than the 1960s . |
| 16 | Better than the other two cowboys from Hamburg . |
| 17 | Why do I think I can do the job better than the other applicants ? |
| 18 | ‘ Better than the other way about , Mrs Markham . |
| 19 | Thinking himself better than the other men . |
| 20 | He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany . |
| 21 | I 'm sure he 'll turn out better than the other one . |
| 22 | Channelling all the pain of her loss into arguments to support her theory , she leapt on to the promise of provision for her and the baby , and to the sentence , ‘ I 'm sure he 'll turn out better than the other one . ’ |
| 23 | All very ordinary , but I was given the impression that somehow we were just that little bit better than the other families in our street . |
| 24 | Much better than the other night when my leg was so bad . |
| 25 | The , the possibility is that they just looked after one sex better than the other and there is some anec anecdotic evidence that this kind of thing occurs , which I have n't got time go to into because I 'm getting towards the end of the lecture . |
| 26 | Even if the actual cost turned out to be quite high , it might still appear better than the other paths for which we have high estimates , estimates which may be considerably greater than their actual cost . |
| 27 | ‘ Funnily enough I was only third choice , but did better than the other two British swimmers , ’ he says . |
| 28 | Ironically I was also third in the trials before Paris , but was sent that time and , as I have said , did better than the other two . ’ |
| 29 | The second round of ‘ Unity ’ talks between the two opposing Unix factions are faring much better than the ill-fated first bout , though actual unity is unlikely to result at least in the short term . |
| 30 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |