Example sentences of "better [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 2 | At the same time the first family could be no better off as every pound gained is deducted from income support . |
| 3 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 4 | If defectors stayed at home the intelligence world would be much better off as a result . |
| 5 | First it is a game which creates wealth through the process of production exchange and all players in the game ( i.e. those supplying labour services , property and capital ) are better off as a result of it . |
| 6 | You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile , so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result . |
| 7 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 8 | The reply by the minister was a direct echo of Mary Carpenter : ‘ The principle behind this provision in the bill is that parents should be required — if their means so permit — to pay for their child 's board and lodging , so that they are in no way better off as a result of the child 's being in care . ’ |
| 9 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 10 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 11 | Given that individuals undertake exchange voluntarily , it is presumed that they must thereby be no worse off and that at least one party to the exchange is better off as a result . |
| 12 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |
| 13 | SULTRY Najma Akhtar was voted most popular international artist in the UK Asian Pop Awards this week — but her mother STILL thinks she 'd be better off as a doctor or a chemical engineer . |
| 14 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 15 | Instead of asking whether the owners of the enterprise will become better off as the result of the firm 's undertaking productive opportunities , the accountant asks whether society as a whole will become better off by undertaking this project rather than not undertaking it , or by undertaking instead any of a number of alternative projects . |
| 16 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 17 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 18 | Even so , people living in the highly technological societies do not feel fully content , and imagine that they might be better off with a return to primitive technical conditions . |
| 19 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 20 | You will be far better off with a 140ml ( 5fl oz ) glass of unsweetened grapefruit or orange juice at only 50 calories , or a mug of hot water with a squeezed lemon quarter which has almost none . |
| 21 | There are pros and cons , and everything really depends upon the main interests of the observer ; for example , anyone who wants to make regular studies of the Sun will be far better off with a refractor , while the deep-sky enthusiast will in general prefer a reflector . |
| 22 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 23 | I reckon he 'd better off with the music to be honest , I mean |
| 24 | For example , if the patients ' bowels act too often or with great urgency , and espcially if there should be repeated episodes of faecal leakage or even frank incontinence , they might be better off with an ileostomy . |
| 25 | A Labour victory would see house prices fall ‘ almost overnight ’ and a collapse in the value of pensions that would far outweigh the ‘ piffling promises ’ about most families being better off under a Kinnock government . |
| 26 | " We 're both better off without a cad like that . |
| 27 | She wiped them surreptitiously and repeated her question : ‘ Surely a woman is better off without a man ? ’ |
| 28 | Some people in the Labour Party seem to believe that Labour will be better off without the unions . |
| 29 | You 're better off without the thing . |
| 30 | I sit on the side of the bed and decide maybe Rachel is right : I 'd be better off between the sheets than listening to this dross . |