Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Furthermore it is possible for a high degree polynomial to be only slightly better than a low degree one ( even a straight line fit ) , whereas the higher degree fit will certainly require much more effort . |
| 3 | True beliefs are n't generally better than false ones in any moral sense : there is usually nothing morally wrong about being mistaken in one 's beliefs about matters of fact . |
| 4 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 5 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ NIRVANA HAVE made an LP which is not only better than anything they 've ever done before , it 'll stand up as a new reference point for the future post-hardcore generation , ’ confirms Steve Lamacq , as ‘ Nevermind ’ makes a gigantic , instantaneous cross-over , welcomed by all of the diverse colonies like hardcore , HM — anybody that 's partial to vitriol and cool tunes , attitude and your classic , penned-in teenage howl . |
| 8 | This is determined by the angle the line is set to the wind , as one end is nearly always better than the other . |
| 9 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 10 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 11 | For those who 've taken the decision to turn their lives around prevention is n't always better than cure . |
| 12 | Grip is n't merely better than the old car 's , it 's of a different order . |
| 13 | ‘ Manchester United offered me a contract that was only just better than the one I was on at Ayresome Park . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The model including a recessive major locus gave a better fit than the model including an additive or a dominant locus , but the fit was not significantly better than for the multifactorial model with or without a generational difference . |
| 16 | A placebo controlled study has , however , been carried out in active distal ulcerative colitis by Angus et al , and showed that the drug was not significantly better than placebo . |
| 17 | One of the most disturbing aspects of this experience , which I think merits emphasis , is that my c.v. , rated on the basis of the number of publications ( Medline Data Base ) , on the number of citations in the literature ( Science Citation Index ) , and the impact factor , was not only better than that of any of the winners but also of those of the commission members as well . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel . |