Example sentences of "better [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If all can be made relatively understandable to newcomers , then they will be better disposed to listening to the word of God preached with conviction , which the Bible says contains the seed of life to those who are otherwise perishing .
2 In that the directors are often likely to be better disposed to the workforce than are the shareholders this may be of some practical importance .
3 He had proved useful in the woodland , being better accustomed to thick woods than any of the others .
4 And yet these would be better able to be active and grow quickly on a limited food supply , particularly in a stable equable climate .
5 Simpkin will be better able to gauge how good Hong Kong 's chances will be at the September 19th-26th Asian Championship in Seoul by their performance in internationals against the Americans ( April 18th in San Francisco ) and the Russians ( early September ) .
6 Others , however , were better able to " school " a profession .
7 Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago .
8 They would be better fed , better clothed — even better educated — while their parents were alive , and better pleased with their legacies once those parents were dead .
9 Nenna would have felt better pleased with herself if she had resembled her elder daughter .
10 In her unsentimental way she loved children , though no one was better aware of their knavish tricks .
11 She was better satisfied with their trip to a beauty parlour , where Martha 's hair was released from its braids , anointed with a number of glutinous white creams , cut to the level of her shoulders and wound upon enormous wire rollers .
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