Example sentences of "well than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what you get with this package is a roomy hatchback with plenty of power on tap , great fun to drive , and better than average handling abilities . |
| 2 | I have frequented pool-rooms for over twenty years , and at one pool-room game , n three-cushion billiards , am considered a far better than average player . ’ |
| 3 | The idea was to take a person who was in excellent nutritional shape and consuming a good , better than average diet without taking any vitamin or mineral supplements , who was a non-smoker and moderate consumer of alcohol , sugar , tea , coffee and chocolate ; and to see what effect consuming the national average amount of alcohol , cigarettes , sugar , tea , coffee and chocolate would do to this fine healthy specimen . |
| 4 | What is more , the participating organisations showed average or better than average health and safety performance in their own industries . |
| 5 | It aims to discover why farmers who in general enjoy better than average health are nonetheless more likely to develop a range of cancers , including leukaemia and cancers of the prostrate , brain , stomach , skin and lip . |
| 6 | Traditionally it 's 6,500 inhabitants have enjoyed lower than average unemployment , better than average housing , good schools and medical facilities . |
| 7 | Does it perform sufficiently better than Soviet equipment to warrant the hard currency expended upon it . |
| 8 | Parsley does best in deep moist soil and sun ; the mints prefer the same soil , and are impervious to shade or sun , but pineapple mint will survive in drought much better than ginger mint . |
| 9 | So is I per cent vision better than total blindness . |
| 10 | And better than mere confirmation was production . |
| 11 | Mutations at Lys22 suggest slight deleterious effects on operator recognition in vitro of the Glu and Ala mutations , with somewhat better than wild-type affinity for Arg substitution . |
| 12 | Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " . |
| 13 | A combination of a well planned and executed programme , better than expected weather and operational benefits derived from onboard data processing meant that a planned two-summer programme was completed in just 4½ months . |
| 14 | Better than old Pipsqueak . |
| 15 | So long as two key sequences do not produce overlapping remainders this can achieve results considerably better than true randomization . |
| 16 | That is , whether spaced out advertising — the " drip " — over a long period would work better than heavy advertising , the " burst " , concentrated into a short space of time . |
| 17 | ‘ Better than English Stahlhelm , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Barry now parodies himself even better than Spitting Image . |
| 19 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 20 | This performance is not quite as good as human vision in a good light , but probably better than human vision in moonlight . |
| 21 | The bilinguals behaved usually as English speakers , and clearly showed all the normal effects of speech coding ( homophone/non-homophone differences and overt rehearsal better than silent rehearsal ) . |
| 22 | Before that evening the Pink Floyd 's gigs had been small affairs such as the ICA , and for the London Free School at St Luke 's Hall in Notting Hill — but their rudimentary light show meant they were paid rather better than Soft Machine . |
| 23 | For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ . |
| 24 | It supposedly has a ‘ real ’ remote procedure call system , ‘ much better than Open Network Computing RPC , ’ and can communicate within a machine or between machines . |