Example sentences of "better than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 2 | Best Group Video : Even Better Than The Real Thing — U2 . |
| 3 | ‘ Ultra Violet ( Light My Way ) ’ was one of the highlights , ‘ Even Better Than The Real Thing ’ kicked hard , ‘ One ’ was scintillating and ‘ Love Is Blindness ’ hypnotic and powerful against a backdrop of city lights in black and white on the video screens . |
| 4 | Much better than the quoted loss projected of £12,728 . |
| 5 | This can then be searched over a Local Area Network by up to 25 users simultaneously , a speed performance ten times better than the best CD-ROM can normally offer . |
| 6 | Even the gourd comes off better than the poor whale , who is no more than a floating prison where Jonah spends three days purging his contempt of court . |
| 7 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 8 | Much better than the other night when my leg was so bad . |
| 9 | ‘ Better than the other way about , Mrs Markham . |
| 10 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 11 | It is notable that all of the groups defined as ‘ non-standard ’ , and a number of those entering on the basis of other qualifications , perform better than the average level of achievement for A-level entrants . |
| 12 | It does over 2,000 input-output operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says ; it costs $170,000 with 28.8Gb disk . |
| 13 | It does over 2,000 input operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says . |
| 14 | Given that the average score for all A-level entrants was 5.4 , it can be seen that all non-standard entry groups , apart from those entering on the basis of 1–4 O-levels , performed at least as well or better than the average A-level entrants . |
| 15 | This accords with our finding that median arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio predicts respiratory outcome better than the minimum ratio . |
| 16 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |
| 17 | But if you look at some of the other factors , for example just within all the other routes , score better than the blue route . |
| 18 | The Bolsheviks proved in the Civil War that they could defend the minorities just as well , or indeed better than the Tsarist regime had done in the Great War . |
| 19 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 20 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 21 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 22 | Do they remember the remote past better than the recent past ? |
| 23 | The selective imposition of fines , probation orders , community service orders , and compensation orders , particularly when coupled with ‘ positive repentance ’ for the corporation and occasional imprisonment ( not for merely thirty days ) for executives would undoubtedly achieve the penal aims of deterrence , incapacitation , rehabilitation , and restitution better than the present system of token fines and infrequent short imprisonment sentences . |
| 24 | The domain-specific dictionary appears to perform slightly better than the general dictionary . |
| 25 | I think the original ending is much better and fits into the jigsaw of the novel much better than the second ending . |
| 26 | With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase . |
| 27 | Ward nurses are beginning to argue that they often know the patient better than the busy consultant possibly can . |
| 28 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 29 | Speaker 3 appears to be a counter-example to this , in that the black group did better than the white group in guessing her to be black , although the difference was not statistically significant . |
| 30 | If you are nervous , console yourself with the thought that the initially nervous speaker often performs far better than the stolid chap with no nerves . |