Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that while ICI 's vigorous reshaping programme last year helped the company weather the storm slightly better than some of its rivals , the recession still remains its greatest problem . |
| 2 | Conditions were far from ideal for batting , with the light never better than moderate : there were two interruptions during the stand ; one for lunch and a second , lasting 27 minutes , for rain . |
| 3 | Men teachers claim to understand what was required for the review slightly better than women , to experience slightly more preliminary discussion about the review and to take more part in staff questionnaires as a review strategy . |
| 4 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 5 | Sometimes a crisis focuses the attention far better than if you 're doing well . |
| 6 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 7 | However , I felt that someone else could do the job far better than I , so I have declined . ’ |
| 8 | The head need n't take the role of guide , a child can often do the job far better than an adult . |
| 9 | Instead , she said , ‘ I 'm sure someone else would do the job far better than I. ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nicklaus , now 52 , was one of 12 players to break 70 with a 69 , a score matched by not only Bernhard Langer and Steve Richardson , of the Europeans , but also Woosnam , who began his defence of the title much better than he had expected . |
| 12 | The Official History of the Ryder Cup by Michael Williams is well researched and therefore surprisingly interesting while Ryder Cup ‘ 89 conveys the atmosphere of the event rather better than most instant histories . |
| 13 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 14 | By the next Prime Minister 's Questions on Thursday she knew the policy rather better than we did . |
| 15 | I hope that when the Bill goes to another place the words recorded in the Official Report , spoken both in Committee and on the Floor of the House , will be examined carefully and that what we have started will be built upon to make the Bill even better than it is . |
| 16 | I think the original ending is much better and fits into the jigsaw of the novel much better than the second ending . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 19 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 20 | It seemed ridiculous in a country that recognised a mixed economy , respected private wealth and acknowledged that a rich man could live in almost every respect infinitely better than a poor one . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |