Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | People throughout the world suddenly became much better informed about radiation hazards . |
| 2 | Hooker became much better known , and indeed revered , after his death . |
| 3 | Members of the committee became much better informed . |
| 4 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 5 | Social services staff gave both agencies bottom score on the involvement of service users in planning , and carer involvement scored little better . |
| 6 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 7 | There was no doubt that right-winger Albert Harry played much better with Billy there beside him and , under Turner 's neat and shrewd direction , our forwards became quite devastating . |
| 8 | After considerable reflection , a discussion of the match with a wide circle of friends , a session with a sports psychiatrist , and two calls to the Samaritans , I decide that I lost because Martin played much better than I did . |
| 9 | ‘ It is better than my earlier victory over Terry Griffiths because I played much better , ’ said Higgins , who produced a mature break of 99 in the eighth frame to kill off Terry 's revival as he battled back from a 3-0 deficit . |
| 10 | However , he played far better yesterday and was heading for a 67 until he unexpectedly dropped shots at both the 16th and 17th . |
| 11 | The second-half had n't lived up to the football of the first but Tranmere played far better on Friday with less reward . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd bloody better , ’ Sharpe said grimly . |
| 13 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |
| 14 | State peasants , who as a percentage of the rural population grew to about 54 per cent by the time of the Crimean War , fared little better . |
| 15 | MacPublisher 's first incarnation was , to be polite , dreadful and version II fared little better despite a brief spell of fame as Letraset 's LetraPage . |
| 16 | In the world seniors he fared little better , losing to a nondescript American , who then made his exit in the next round . |
| 17 | In the world seniors he fared little better , losing to a nondescript American , who then made his exit in the next round . |
| 18 | Compared with normal controls , the MPD subjects fared much better at keeping the lists separate . |
| 19 | The highest , Park Mill , was situated on the lowest lake , but now remains in name alone ; however , the other two mills , farther down the valley , fared somewhat better . |
| 20 | gave me a C yeah and said improved greatly from the last showed much better in his work and really trying hard and gave me a C. |
| 21 | Bayer fared slightly better than its rivals , turning in a 4 per cent drop in pre-tax profits during the first nine months of the year — from DM 2750m to DM 2640m . |
| 22 | The production cycle of a monthly magazine I once edited was over five weeks for features , news fared slightly better at two weeks , and these represent the time taken to get the magazine to the printer , not onto the newsagents shelves . |
| 23 | Posters and prints fared slightly better with a Twentieth Century Fox film poster of The Blue Max movie reaching £50 , although an original of the famous Winston Churchill Let Us Go Forward Together poster only fetched £45 , instead of the £100–200 estimated . |
| 24 | Surprisingly , supermarket products fared far better than specialist varieties . |
| 25 | PHOTO-ME International , the world 's biggest photo-booths operator , yesterday announced slightly better than expected full year results . |
| 26 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 27 | The names worked even better than I expected . |
| 28 | The field concept became increasingly better defined as the relationships between the electric field and other electromagnetic quantities were more clearly specified . |
| 29 | I also must add that as far as the war moved to its close , crews became increasingly better ; the output of the Empire Air Training Scheme gave us crews with more experience ; second and even third tours crews were returning to Operations ; and in the final phase , in daylight , the casualty rate dropped dramatically . |
| 30 | With the mother and father , whose knowledge of English was vestigial , he managed rather better , but longed for a rest from mental agility , for a bed to sleep away the exhaustion of his night and a day on the long Lines of Communication from England . |