Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] better [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck .
2 In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations …
3 If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake .
4 And it made better grass .
5 But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see .
6 The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall .
7 I prefer white bread myself , because it makes better toast , but I always get a brown sliced for the cat which likes a little bit of butter with it .
8 The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do .
9 She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather
10 Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time .
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