Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second round of ‘ Unity ’ talks between the two opposing Unix factions are faring much better than the ill-fated first bout , though actual unity is unlikely to result at least in the short term . |
| 2 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 3 | The shadow budget was also politically inept , although its positive features could have been defended much better than they were . |
| 4 | ‘ For 20 years the Childrens ’ Hearing system has progressed very positively and we are doing much better than our brethren south of the Border in looking after the interests of children in Scotland . ’ |
| 5 | And those with larger amounts to invest — attracting even higher rates of interest — are doing substantially better than that . |
| 6 | This is excellent news which will be made even better if , in the next few days , her colleagues and headline writers refrain from prefacing every mention of her name with the words brave , courageous , etc. etc . |
| 7 | You know , nobody 's expecting three or four sides , right , you 've got quarter of an hour , not erm , you know , if , if you can write a side a half you , you 'll be doing much better than most people , alright , so you 're just thinking about a side really , depending on how big your handwriting is . |
| 8 | ‘ In my opinion the period from three to six is the most important and should be utilised much better than it is today . |
| 9 | Although in terms of total casualties Lothian appears to be performing marginally better than the Scottish average , this masks worrying trends for the very young and elderly age groups . |
| 10 | Æthelred can be known little better than Cnut or most other early medieval kings . |
| 11 | also the airfield has never not actually be marketed properly it could be marketed much better as , as , as it was to attract more , more executive business and more freight business , freight , airfreight is a greatly expanding business and there are lots of opportunities that this airfield would have in airfreight we 've got erm buildings there we could have warehousing there to deal with airfreight . |
| 12 | For the sequence T(AT) 8 CG(AT) 15 ( Figure 1b and 2b ) the ApT steps are cut much better than the single central GA site . |
| 13 | There were perhaps too few such women in this social cross-section of the immediate post-war generation ( 3 per cent of the age group , 40 cases in the pay regression ) for us to draw such conclusions , but similar analyses of a contemporary survey of graduates ( Dolton and Makepeace , 1986 ) also indicates that male graduates in their early thirties were doing considerably better than women . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Caught here by Peter Chick on September 11 , despite its age it is faring much better than the much younger , but cocooned , Citation executive jet behind ! |
| 16 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 17 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 18 | According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , Rover is doing slightly better than many competitors . |
| 19 | He was vaguely aware that he was driving rather better than usual . |
| 20 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |