Example sentences of "[adv] well [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 2 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 4 | Æthelred can be known little better than Cnut or most other early medieval kings . |
| 5 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 6 | As I said at the beginning , conditions were a little better and bream were rolling and giving line bites . |
| 7 | My knowledge of French was rather better than Benjamin knew . |
| 8 | Alkalinity , though tolerated rather better than acidity , increases the toxicity of ammonia and reduces the availability to fish of essential mineral elements such as iron and copper ( in the case of iron a deficiency could produce anaemia ) . |
| 9 | Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Sugar show rather better than Prince Charles , Ben Elton or Mick Jagger . |
| 10 | Once the basic outline of the artist 's sketches were reproduced , it was up to a team of colourists , some obviously better than others , to colour the 200 or so copies of each plate . |
| 11 | Dr Smithson told me it was perfect , much better than Herr Speich 's or even poor Mr MacKenzie 's . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel . |
| 13 | Both she and Lubor had a glass of beer to go with it , and , having not been hungry , the meal went down much better than Fabia had anticipated . |
| 14 | Language , in any case , is often the subtlest indicator that there is : much better than clothes , since one can daily or hourly change one 's clothes . |
| 15 | Much better than Maxim 's . |
| 16 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 17 | The substantial remains of Milton Lockhart , an elegant William Burn house of the 1840s in Lanarkshire were bought by another Japanese consortium and transported to Japan 's Hokkaido Island be rebuilt as ‘ Santa 's Castle ’ in ‘ Santaland , an absolutely unique[sic] theme park , much better than Disneyland ’ . |
| 18 | Much better than conversation . |
| 19 | There 's plenty of room for cars in the yard — much better than parking in the village street . |
| 20 | He became the fourth of the afternoon to be caught behind off one which left him , this time off Watson , who did the stock-bowler 's job much better than Pringle and in Christchurch . |
| 21 | Some — especially those in the south or those with a wide range of incentives such as regional and European Community assistance — have done much better than others . |
| 22 | Although average sales per outlet have shown a slight decrease in each of the last five years , some of our licensees have done much better than others . |
| 23 | When they were asked to turn out and fight on behalf of king or queen and country , some regiments performed much better than others . |
| 24 | Machines can keep the disparate parts of such a system co-ordinated much better than men can . |
| 25 | He had read many of the books in the library , and knew exactly where every one was , much better than Mr Crangle . |
| 26 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |
| 27 | Now I know they 're absolutely outstanding vehicles , much better than Chrysler has ever done before . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes I can relate to animals much better than people ’ she says . |
| 29 | As it happens , he paces himself much better than Corbett and other stand-up comics , and in his own sober way milks the material ruthlessly . |
| 30 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |