Example sentences of "[vb base] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , records sell better than books , and publishers want to tap into that larger market . |
| 2 | Mrs Fishfinger 's Koi — they eat better than I do … |
| 3 | If you come from a certain town or region , you will know what the different voices mean better than someone who comes from outside because you 've learned the code . |
| 4 | Some communicate better than others . |
| 5 | It fits that account better than it fits others , including a probabilistic account of which a bit more will be said . |
| 6 | You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed . |
| 7 | I laughed and said , ‘ I sleep better than you do . ’ |
| 8 | As a generalisation it is a fact that new churches grow better than old . |
| 9 | However , there is no doubt that we all fly better if we fly regularly and it is a good policy to fly whenever you have the opportunity . |
| 10 | The two short groups , Lapith and Centaur , Centaur carrying off boy , also fit better if transposed . |
| 11 | Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’ |
| 12 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 13 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 14 | Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits . |
| 15 | Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits . |
| 16 | The rest die better than they kill . |
| 17 | They deserve better than they got on April 9 , 1992 . ’ |
| 18 | Our people deserve better than to have been treated like this , and the general quality of our society will not rapidly improve unless they are . |
| 19 | Surely they deserve better than this . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that our talented children deserve better than a Labour council , let alone a Labour Government ? |
| 21 | We deserve better than this . |
| 22 | They 're worth watching and they deserve better than they 're getting , but they 've got to sharpen up in front of goal . |
| 23 | And he concluded : ‘ The British people deserve better than they got on 9th April , 1992 . ’ |
| 24 | I were gon na say , they wash better than |
| 25 | Children manage better if they are left to touch and play with their food experimenting at their own rates . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some brands tie better than others , having a more slippery surface . |
| 28 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |
| 29 | Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks . |
| 30 | Spring is generally the season in which to sow , but some germinate better if sown in late summer or early autumn , that is , as soon as the parent plants have flowered and set seed , and the seed has ripened . |