Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , as I said F T volumes are flat but er , they , they , they did achieve an increase in the yield erm , but forward bookings are much better at the F T and October looks rather better , so I think advertisement volumes are , are on the increase . |
| 2 | I compiled it onto another system which has far better de debugging tools and |
| 3 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 4 | It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option . |
| 5 | But Indian manager Amrit Mathur claimed he had no objections , saying : ‘ There is no evidence that a team plays any better if everyone is in bed by 8pm . ’ |
| 6 | APPLE SEES MUCH BETTER SECOND HALF AS ITS SHORTAGES START TO EASE |
| 7 | In fact , sound travels much better in water than in air , as any diver will know . |
| 8 | On performance though , good as the new one is , I remain firmly attached to the TER , which is more romantically conceived , and captures much better the work 's operetta style . |
| 9 | " … a guide for the medical practitioners of both tropical and temperate regions to the origins and diagnosis of infections that are tropical as opposed to being cosmopolitan , and of great value for training and teaching because it reproduces much better and more comprehensively than is possible with ordinary textbooks the appearance of specimens that will be examined … has been prepared with great care and deserves to remain one of the standard texts in the subject for many years . " |
| 10 | The third movement fares rather better , but even here a tougher approach is really needed . |
| 11 | Literal translation fares rather better with dead metaphors ; the results are usually a little odd , but are nonetheless interpretable in the manner of live metaphors . |
| 12 | Indeed , in another passage in the Ali differentiates the haric elli ( and 40-akce ) and dahil grades of medreses on the basis not of geographical location but of their builders — the 40-akce and medreses being the foundations of the families of pre-Ottoman rulers and [ Ottoman ] vezirs and emirs , the medreses the foundations of the families of Ottoman sultans — method of classification which accords rather better with the actualities of his time ( late sixteenth century ) but which provides no apparent explanation for the terms themselves . |
| 13 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For adults with savings above £150,000 it performs even better , as one of the top two nationals . |
| 16 | ‘ I told Jim to believe that he competes significantly better than most players . |
| 17 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 18 | We used to use a sort of doily to go round them , but now you can get washable plastic lace by the yard , which lasts much better . |
| 19 | Those buried with a daughter of the Roman general Stilicho around A.D. 400 are said to have fallen instantly to dust when her tomb was opened in 1544 To some extent mother-of-pearl , which lasts much better , can provide a clue to the exploitation of oyster beds . |
| 20 | Nobody expects much better this time . |
| 21 | Even if this classification scheme could be improved upon , it clearly serves far better than the traditional indicators in identifying those areas most in need of extra resources , in order to compensate for poverty and deprivation , through educational and personal social service provision . |
| 22 | The Prince is genuinely modest about his artistic talent , perpetually apologizes for his amateurishness and longs to be more skilled ; and , as with most things , he finds he becomes much better with daily practice . |
| 23 | IBM with its £18000 million turnover does far better at IT than France Inc. with its £400000 million gross domestic product . |
| 24 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 25 | I think it 's twice as effective without links and it becomes even better with links . |
| 26 | When the solvent is ideal , i.e. a theta-solvent , both v and b are 0.5 , but as the solvent becomes thermodynamically better , and deviations from ideality larger , then v increases and b decreases . |
| 27 | He works much better when he has plenty of space around him , and when his name is , metaphorically or literally , the only one above the title . |
| 28 | So a much more satisfying picture erm yeah I think that one works much better . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll find your brain works much better on my kind of diet . ’ |
| 30 | NIGEL Clough knows perhaps better than anyone how England are flirting with a losing game that can become a terminal habit . |