Example sentences of "[adv] better than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link . |
| 2 | If you 're going away , wear clear or pale nail varnish — it will look much better than a dark colour with a tan . |
| 3 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | Legalised exports of waste from rich countries to poorer ones are much better than a black market . |
| 5 | Now we 've got a company secretary he is er , an F C I S Chartered Institute Secretaries that 's much better than a chartered accountant , they 're no damn good as secretaries , right ! |
| 6 | Besides , they were cold and wet and the burrow , while it would n't have sounded a very comfortable proposition back at the quarry , was suddenly much better than the horrible night outside . |
| 7 | To wash the wool , pure soft water , which drained steadily from the peaty moorlands of the Millstone Grit and Coal Measures , was much better than the hard water from the areas of Carboniferous Limestone . |
| 8 | It is generally better than the flat plate as each battery or pod terminal mates with its own individual spring . |
| 9 | There was always better than an even chance of something like this happening . |
| 10 | Our most disastrous Rannoch cottage was little better than a derelict shack , owned by an hotel in Aberfeldy . |
| 11 | He said officers were being let loose on the roads after three-hour assessments which were little better than the ordinary driving test . |
| 12 | He told the central committee that the new party leader , Mr Petar Mladenov , and many members of the ruling politburo were little better than the old regime . |
| 13 | A 4-1 defeat was marginally better than the 5-1 setback on Tuesday against the side who will be England 's key rivals for a semi-final place in their World Cup group in February . |
| 14 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 15 | If you were to smooth out all the material there is in the universe into a uniform sort of sea of particles , you would find that the density was just about one atom in every cubic metre , which is far better than the best vacuum that you can ever make on earth by artificial means . |
| 16 | It is often better than a standard learner , such as the Boltzmann algorithm , because the genetic algorithm keeps note of a large set of states , one for each string . |
| 17 | And to a penitent soldier a crusade was even better than an unarmed pilgrimage . |
| 18 | Cereal based oral rehydration solutions are significantly better than the standard glucose oral rehydration solutions in the treatment of diarrhoea . |