Example sentences of "[adv] better [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pay was much better than a secretary 's pay , and the work was more interesting . |
| 2 | If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition . |
| 3 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 4 | Leonora made her bed then collected her cup and started downstairs , deeply thankful that she felt so much better than the day before . |
| 5 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 6 | Well the men tend to come to our meetings and sit in the back now because their they well what in their words they say , Oh they they 're much better than the lodge meetings . |
| 7 | I tell you something , it 's much better than the operating table ! |
| 8 | Both these directors fared much better than the other I have mentioned insomuch as they were working right up until their death . |
| 9 | things to people 's teeth and people 's teeth today are so much better than the past . |
| 10 | It 's a game of two halves : the disk version is much better than the tape , with the addition of management and league option . |
| 11 | I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road . |
| 12 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 13 | Bob Dwyer , Australia 's coach , watched his side being demolished and tried to explain why Fiji were so much better than the world champions at sevens in contrast to their 15-a-side form . |
| 14 | Well the upstairs one 's certainly much much better than the downstairs one . |
| 15 | And also , you know sometimes he 's prices are much better than the supermarket 's prices . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud pointed out that a regulator is much better than an ombudsman . |
| 17 | So I would n't like to see any property developers take it , the club on because I think they 'd be purely after the ground , I , I 'd feel much better if the consortium with Ray at the head took it over because they are genuinely interested in Walsall and the Walsall people . |
| 18 | If you are very good otherwise at restricting your fat intake , this combination with black pepper is much better if the pineapple is fried in a little butter , for its juices and the butter together make a spectacular caramelised sauce . |
| 19 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 20 | It is much better if the player knows subconsciously all the time where the clubhead is and makes sure that it gets to the ball at the same moment as the hands — a similar position as when at address . |
| 21 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 22 | An extreme instance is provided by Godden and Baddeley ( 1975 , 1980 ) , who found that the ability of divers to recall a list of words learned either under water or on the beach was much better when the test took place in the same conditions as had prevailed during original learning . |
| 23 | With a pattern mask , however , performance was very much better when the target was a word than when it was a single letter . |
| 24 | When Soviet citizens began to question the merits of nuclear energy , they were questioning one of the most basic assumptions of their system : that communism would lead them into the high-tech future , and that the high-tech future would be greatly better than the present . |
| 25 | That one conception is somehow better than a second , supposing that that can be made out , is of course not the proposition that it is our conception or one of them . |
| 26 | I want this work this week to be as good if not better than the work you did for me last week . |
| 27 | We can not prevent old age , but we can be aware of its side effects ; we can prevent over-attached dog relationships — and prevention is always better than a cure . |
| 28 | They complain about the expense , but it is still better than the alternative : ‘ Before , we worked the fields with pure lung power ’ . |
| 29 | If you want me to identify a fish , remember that a photo , or a drawing , is usually better than a description — and it is no end of help if you give me a clue as to where the fish comes from , even if it 's only the continent . |
| 30 | In spite of the fact that a national land use classification has been produced ( DOE , 1975 ) it is very unlikely that the future will be any better than the present , and that national land use statistics will continue to be ( Dickinson and Shaw , 1978 , 299 ) * Both are discussed more fully in Chapter 2 . |