Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were just that bit better than you . |
| 2 | And they 're that bit better than you because they 're able to organise themselves and they do more in day and do it longer and so and so forth . |
| 3 | We have several capital projects which will take us into new and exciting areas and if we ride out this recession better than others we will have the opportunity to make further acquisitions to expand our core activities . |
| 4 | How is this experience better than another ? ’ |
| 5 | This hunger is better than any other fullness ; this poverty better than any other wealth . |
| 6 | It hardly needs emphasizing that on any question that is interesting , such as social roles of the sexes , we would have to be able to read the historical record better than we now can in order to arrive at any strong conclusions about what is biologically discouraged . |
| 7 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 8 | Perhaps no one sees this point better than St. Francis . |
| 9 | No one knows social security better and no one has a greater social commitment . |
| 10 | I know this district better than you ever will , and I say it was a neighbourhood crime . |
| 11 | WOULD ALL TEACHERS PLEASE PUBLICISE THIS OFFER WELL IFF YOU HAVE A LOCAL RALLY THIS TERM . |
| 12 | This would be my shopping list : I would like voluntary organisations to accept a continued role as innovators — they perform this role better than anyone . |
| 13 | Well , I thought you might , you might know this church well and have personal , um , memories of it . ’ |
| 14 | We were a darned sight better than them . |
| 15 | None epitomises this spirit better than Volkswagen 's Corrado , here in supercharged G60 form , but Vauxhall 's super-sleek 16-valve Calibra is looking like a strong contender for the crown . |
| 16 | Sir Charles Groves and the RPO match their soloist in playing that sounds as though they too know this music well and love it . |
| 17 | Bath are still favourites to retain the Courage Division One title , but below them , it 's a case of the old order well and truly changing . |
| 18 | The manufacturer would have to convince members of the channel that the detergent was in some way better than those already on the market , or offer advantageous prices and terms . |
| 19 | Young male and female geladas begin to differentiate their preferences in this way well before the male separates to join an all-male group . |
| 20 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 21 | An attempt to bring the imam of Yemen into alliance was vetoed by India , but he played tribal politics better than the craftiest of sheikhs , cheaply keeping the peace with well-placed bribes . |
| 22 | A century ; and this time well and truly out . |
| 23 | What was I , oh yes erm , do you find that like maybe like one section thinks they 're a wee bit better than another section ? |
| 24 | Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " . |
| 25 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 26 | None knew the force of such reasoning better than the NIO which had been humbled by the general strike or the previous May . |
| 27 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 28 | but nevertheless its er its safety record is still a damn site better than the roads . |
| 29 | She did think she was a little bit better than everyone else . |
| 30 | 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 . |