Example sentences of "[verb] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think even Control Room where at one stage it was a , a male domain , it is not so now there 's , there 's , I would think now there 's a predominance of women there , erm purely I think again that Control Room work suits them better , they , they , they concentrate better , I think , they , they lend themselves better to that type of work and they 're more dextrous with their fingers on , on these buttons and , and typewriters and , and other things |
| 2 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 3 | As Big Black got better known , they acquired a reputation for oddness . |
| 4 | Generally , records sell better than books , and publishers want to tap into that larger market . |
| 5 | As you eat better and become slimmer you will automatically find activity more enjoyable . |
| 6 | ‘ Do some animals have higher fitness because they eat better , or do they eat better because they are more fit ? ’ asks Altman . |
| 7 | Mrs Fishfinger 's Koi — they eat better than I do … |
| 8 | Players will tend to perform better when they are among friends than when they are placed in unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 9 | Is a nominated subcontractor really likely to perform better than the subcontractor 's own subcontractor ? |
| 10 | BRAUN Designed to perform better |
| 11 | Moreover the devices seem to perform better the more they are miniaturised . |
| 12 | Interestingly , initial offerings that reverse leveraged buy-outs — a fast-growing category , especially in America — seem to perform better than average . |
| 13 | Each smaller work group attempts to perform better than their rival groups in both quality control and in the number of suggestions they offer to improve productivity . |
| 14 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 15 | It also remains unclear to what extent disabled people working in the health and caring professions have a better understanding of illness and disability than their able-bodied colleagues , although it can be argued that this should not be a central Issue as disabled people should not be expected to perform better than other people in order to be acceptable . |
| 16 | Laymon 's star , on the other hand , is rising , and he seems to perform better with each title ; Koontz continues to challenge Stephen King at the top of the pile . |
| 17 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 18 | Fletcher said : ‘ If we want England sides to perform better overseas then we have got to sort out the itineraries . |
| 19 | The chemical industry 's ‘ Responsible Care ’ programme has a major role to play in demonstrating that the industry is serious in its intent to perform better . |
| 20 | However , this need not be too serious an objection , and the fact that native speakers seem to think that this transcription fits better with their feelings about the language is a good argument in its favour . |
| 21 | South Africa demonstrably adjusted better to the more disciplined requirements of the longer game after almost two months of the uninterrupted frenzy of the World Cup . |
| 22 | In the absence of CRP , all polymerases bind better to the lac fragment than to the gal fragment ( Fig. 1 , lanes 7 and 9 ) ; in the presence of CRP , with the truncated polymerases , a better binding at gal is observed ( Fig. 1 , lane 10 ) consistent with the absence of cooperativity found at the lac promoter . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're very sorry about poor 'Annah passin' on , so we thought we 'ad better come to pay our respects . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 25 | ‘ Do some animals have higher fitness because they eat better , or do they eat better because they are more fit ? ’ asks Altman . |
| 26 | And then his own special moment of elation : the overture , the rustle , the curtain up , and suddenly his tacky , ragtag little chorus was out there , looking wonderful , moving well , even singing better ! |
| 27 | I am convinced that any steps that can be taken to explore methods of production which make better and more effective use of renewable resources are extremely important . |
| 28 | ‘ The people of Wensleydale make better , ’ said Allen . |
| 29 | Make better , women ; make bad , men . ’ |
| 30 | Nothing could , perhaps , convey better the collapse of a regime than this picture of a faithful attendant carrying a cup of soup through a deserted palace , to an Empress asleep in a chair . |