Example sentences of "be better than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 2 | Maybe for ten years would be better than no . |
| 3 | It would be better than the ferries , cost travellers no more and ‘ would be toll free before it was ever likely to be publicly funded ’ . |
| 4 | Subterfuge was thought to be better than violence . ’ |
| 5 | Britain was proving itself to be better than the ungovernable ‘ banana republic ’ of hostile critics in 1975–6 , but still an ailing ex-imperial giant lacking focus and perhaps even faith . |
| 6 | Maybe the next crowd will be better than this mixture of druids and crooks that we 're stuck with . ’ |
| 7 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 8 | Anything , Richard thought , would be better than sawing half a man 's chest away . |
| 9 | Some pundits were , rather foolishly , speculating that he might prove to be better than all of them . |
| 10 | Mr Mark Brett , economist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The risk has to be that the figures will be better than everybody is assuming . |
| 11 | What is perhaps most interesting about the process is the nature of the German objections : the assumption which Bonn/Frankfurt seems to make that somehow its institutions must be better than those of the EC or its rivals . |
| 12 | However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement . |
| 13 | Net margins on sales may be better than those of their foreign counterparts ( see table ) , but they have to employ more capital to build the new prettily-lit , out-of-town shops that the British want . |
| 14 | Results this year are expected to be better than last . |
| 15 | It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas . |
| 16 | Any place would be better than this . |
| 17 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 18 | ‘ It would be better than that stuff . ’ |
| 19 | It 's got ta be better than work . ’ |
| 20 | But despite all the odds , it turned out to be better than most people expected . |
| 21 | But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism . |
| 22 | She had tried to be better than someone else and ended up proving herself even worse . |
| 23 | ‘ But they realise that a partnership government would be better than a Labour government , and much better than a minority government of either party . ’ |
| 24 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Some people say no reform would be better than one which destroys the agriculture of the most efficient , provides an open cheque that must increase costs year in year out , pensions the part-timer and leaves the consumer and taxpayer to bear the burden ’ . |
| 26 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 27 | ‘ In other words you thought I might be better than you ? ’ she said softly . |
| 28 | Even teaching Boyle 's Law to snotty kids in a secondary modern would be better than this . |
| 29 | On reaching adulthood , people continue to strive to be better than others ; to earn more money , buy a larger home , hold down an interesting and fulfilling job and lead a rewarding life . |
| 30 | All these considerations apart , and what could be better than a democratic choice by a democratic sovereign , Napoleon III was in love with Eugénie . |