Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be a better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
| 2 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 3 | She glared at him , wondering whether the indigestible steak , swiftly followed by an early night , might not have been a better option after all . |
| 4 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 5 | We talked a lot about art — he could n't have been a better sitter . |