Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 2 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 3 | If you have to eat a cold chip , you 're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one . |
| 4 | ‘ And as for the Vancouver race , ’ she went on blithely , ‘ Laurentide Ice might as well melt right now , but Sparrowgrass and Voting Right are both in with a good chance . |
| 5 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
| 6 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 7 | Equally , from the tenant 's point of view the interest granted him under a tenancy at will is so precarious that he would almost always be better off with a fixed term to which the 1954 Act did not apply . |
| 8 | It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly . |
| 9 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |
| 10 | Do n't you think you 'd be better off with a soft drink ? |
| 11 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
| 12 | You 'd be better off with the English one . ’ |
| 13 | The money is now back with the Georgian Federation . |
| 14 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 15 | He was well in with the new dynasty and very anxious to establish his good standing with the king . |