Example sentences of "[noun] well [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it be able to tell the story better than the release ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lasers run at 300 dots per inch , about four times better than a matrix printer . |
| 4 | The result is that ‘ a listed Church of England church has a chance of avoiding demolition nearly three times better than a listed secular building ’ . |
| 5 | It does over 2,000 input-output operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says ; it costs $170,000 with 28.8Gb disk . |
| 6 | Intel Corp is saying its revamped Pentium floating point unit operates three to 10 times better than the one in the 80486's , apparently positioning it against RISCs like the MIPS Technologies Inc R4000 . |
| 7 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 8 | It does over 2,000 input operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says . |
| 9 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 10 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | MERSEYSIDE 'S battle against car crime reaped rewards last night when the region revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Merseyside revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 14 | three or four times better than the civilian 's |
| 15 | The distribution has been examined principally within the context of wind blown dune sands ( Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Christiansen , 1984 ) for which it was claimed the hyperbolic function encompassed the extreme values of the size distribution tails better than the log-normal plot . |
| 16 | And while holidaymakers are whipped up to almost frenzied levels of opportunistic greed by guidebooks which insist that real travellers never pay the first price they are quoted , few have any prospect of coming out of a deal better than the merchant who initiated it . |
| 17 | I was n't actually pleased with Zak as I did n't want to risk being identified as an actor , but that , I supposed , would be a great deal better than the truth . |
| 18 | But being steeped , like them , in the philosophy that if one did a job at all one might as well do it splendidly — or at least a good deal better than the Braithwaites — he had built a very decent stone school with a walled yard and a tiny house attached for the use of the teacher , where anyone who paid him rent for his mill-cottages or any of his other employees who resided elsewhere might send their children — to suit the convenience of the teacher — free of charge . |
| 19 | Although it has disadvantages , it is a great deal better than the kind of society in which there is no free press , or in which the press is gagged by more and more complex and frequently unworkable rules . |
| 20 | These predominantly rolling hills certainly hold snow better than the hills of the west , but I 'm just a bit disappointed that some super areas north of the Great Glen have been missed out . |
| 21 | The final text leaves this clash alone , free to speak for itself in a world where the reader believes he understands Stepan better than the narrator does . |
| 22 | None knew the force of such reasoning better than the NIO which had been humbled by the general strike or the previous May . |
| 23 | As twenty-one-year-old Lieutenant Derville ( killed on the Aisne , 1918 ) predicted at Verdun well before the battle even started : |
| 24 | But ground engineers reprogrammed IRAS to work around the fault well before the survey began . |
| 25 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 26 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 27 | And they 've performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 28 | And this has really been justified recently in the ‘ O ’ level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their ‘ O ’ levels in the school , and they performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 29 | On a purely practical basis , the paintings in this instance work better than the camera lens . |
| 30 | In all cases , the bank managers received the business plan well before the interview took place , in most cases two weeks in advance . |