Example sentences of "[adv] well [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact you never really train a war boar , you just learn to hang on better while the creature goes crazy , goring and stamping , twisting and biting , and generally causing as much damage as it can . |
| 2 | I have seen cross-breed exotic Goldfish that are cute , but rarely better than the original parents . |
| 3 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 4 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 5 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 6 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 7 | This means that a 50MHz 486 performs only a little better than a 16MHz 286 if you are only doing simple word-processing . |
| 8 | How dare you , miss , turn the Feathers into little better than a bawdy-house ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 10 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 11 | There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training . |
| 12 | Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 . |
| 13 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 14 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 15 | One side gets a little better because the other side has . |
| 16 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 17 | Hardly a welcome comment on the mentality of this nation 's youth who , no doubt , understood Morrissey 's ambiguous lyrics rather better than the tabloids . |
| 18 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |
| 19 | Like the scouts at the TT races , it seems , the Japanese studied their subject , and now work the system rather better than the natives do . |
| 20 | He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany . |
| 21 | and it was in this field that the pluralists most persistently attempted to combine empirical methods with assumptions which , if they were not entirely Madisonian , at least fitted prevailing norms rather better than the emerging stark elitism . |
| 22 | I remember the name Hulterstad rather better than the place . |
| 23 | Grip is n't merely better than the old car 's , it 's of a different order . |
| 24 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 25 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 26 | Much better than a line-out with them throwing-in on half-way . |
| 27 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
| 28 | In Britain , however , because of ministerial responsibility and because of the suspicion that the appropriate ministry could do the job much better than a new , inexperienced board ( which usually has a lower calibre of staff ) , the ministries concerned have their own sections on tourism , forestry and the countryside which go over everything the board in question proposes , giving authorizations , suggestions or exercising a veto . |
| 29 | Oh , that is kind — much better than a visit from me . |
| 30 | Much better than the quoted loss projected of £12,728 . |