Example sentences of "[be] [adv] better [adv prt] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if one of your customers is in financial trouble and he owes you money which is due in 20 days , you are much better off than if the debt does not fall due for 100 days . |
| 2 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 3 | Under the new-look European farm policy agreed last year farmers are much better off than they thought they would be . |
| 4 | But they 're still better off than the other Arabs , the ones that do n't work for the French . |
| 5 | You think you 've been hurt , and yes , you have , but you 're still better off than the ones who had to spend their time in institutions , you still had somewhere to go , did n't you . |
| 6 | Alter more than 10 years of ‘ debate ’ we seem to be little better off than before — indeed the lack of motivation is , if anything , more acute than ever . |
| 7 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |
| 8 | ‘ Poor people would be much better off if they had fewer children to feed and clothe . ’ |
| 9 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 10 | I would be slightly better off if I had paid it . |
| 11 | Seb was going to be far better off than he had anticipated . |
| 12 | He said disabled pedestrians would be far better off because of the lack of traffic while reserved spaces for disabled motorists would rise from two to 44 . |
| 13 | Organization participants with majority power must be persuaded that they would be significantly better off if a change occurred . |
| 14 | They were rather better off than most , I think , and they owned an inn called New Spittal , between Bowes and Brough , over to the west . |
| 15 | At the worst they were little better off than the best paid sections of the working class and at the best they were able to afford a distinctively different education for their children and adopt a lifestyle which aped their financial betters . |
| 16 | The non-celibate parish clergy were little better off than their peasant flock , but in the early sixteenth century over 25 per cent of all cultivated land was in clerical hands . |
| 17 | The bleak accounts of life in the farming villages suggest that the majority of middle and lower peasants were little better off than hitherto . |
| 18 | We were much better off than him . |
| 19 | Though this salary was the same as that of a third-class constable , the lowest police rank , village sergeants were much better off because they served in their own localities , were not subject to discipline , and had other income . |
| 20 | Towns were generally better off than villages , but within the same county variations even between towns could be marked . |
| 21 | Well again you see , I , I , with us keeping our own pigs which we always did , we were always better off than anybody else and er we er , we , you see when we kept these pigs , we used to either buy or , or breed some young ones see . |
| 22 | There could be a rise in GNP per head without the poor being any better off than before ( Streeten , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Well black leading was a sort of erm going out cleaning the old fireplaces , for people that were slightly better off than we were , their husbands might have been a tram driver or a railway driver . |
| 24 | Younger elderly married couples were also better off than older couples , with income levels similar to those for the youngest age-group of lone elderly men , for the same reason . |
| 25 | The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well . |
| 26 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 27 | Although those older workers in full-time employment were substantially better off than other groups , the early retired were better off than the rest . |
| 28 | Many wage earners were indeed better off than ever before , and after 1922 the economy was free from inflation . |
| 29 | The ‘ unemployment trap ’ occurs when people find they are no better off when the breadwinner is in employment than when out of employment . |
| 30 | Chairman , I must just say about other organizations , it is approved that they 're going , part of the West Midlands region , is more better off than integral part of the region of Great Britain , or whatever , erm , if they 've got money into their region , they jolly well keep it there , we do n't know where Coventry is . |