Example sentences of "better at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for instance , informed discussions of sporting events , which are always displays of evaluative analysis : who played well , who disappointingly , and why and how ; or whether a team has played better at home or away , this season or last . |
| 2 | We 'd study better at home , ’ Sheila complained crossing the fields . |
| 3 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 4 | There is quite a bit of research , I think , to show that women do better at maths and science in single sex girls schools . |
| 5 | Women do slightly , but consistently , better at degree level . |
| 6 | At 24 , he seems to be doing better at Test cricket the second time round ! |
| 7 | Tell him that to become better at spelling , he should do these things : |
| 8 | Now , after two or three treatments , his coordination has improved and he is also doing much better at school . |
| 9 | They wanted us to do better at school ( be perfect ) . |
| 10 | Children whose mums joined the US programme did much better at school , added Anne . |
| 11 | Sociologists may attempt to improve on this by detailing specific areas of behaviour in which they are interested : how people behave in families , why some people are involved in crime , why some children perform better at school , and so on . |
| 12 | She 's working better at school , too . |
| 13 | These tasks appear to be done better at night with a general decline throughout the daytime to lowest values in the early evening . |
| 14 | However , by far the most common response from all parts of the country was ‘ they could relax and concentrate better at night as their minds would not be thinking about the jobs they should be doing ’ , . |
| 15 | First , however , he had to ask Isobel if he could alter the lighting in the garage , so that he could see better at night . |
| 16 | I worked really hard which meant I got tired and could sleep better at night . |
| 17 | IBM with its £18000 million turnover does far better at IT than France Inc. with its £400000 million gross domestic product . |
| 18 | Further , there is such a large overlap between girls ' and boys ' test or examination results that it is true to say that a great many girls do better at mathematics than the majority of boys . |
| 19 | He was two years older than I , taller , more handsome , better at sport . |
| 20 | There is no country better at patriotism than the U.S. and its treatment of the match should be taken as a compliment to European golf . |
| 21 | The gate left open , and the fertile Scarabae seed , better at inbreeding , sown in one of five vortices of ecstasy . |
| 22 | I also think prison makes you better at crime . |
| 23 | After today 's discussion I should be a bit better at understanding what you 're driving at ! |
| 24 | I think I 'm getting a bit better at polo . |
| 25 | He seemed to do better at Arse and had a good season when we won the league . |
| 26 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |