Example sentences of "[vb -s] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | play with him now , he plays better than you . |
| 2 | David has a theory that the crop grows better when it 's exposed to music . |
| 3 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 4 | I think in the end the tortoise does better than the hare . |
| 5 | The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted . |
| 6 | The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard . |
| 7 | They say that machinery works better when in use . |
| 8 | ‘ It works better if you believe . ’ |
| 9 | The initial choice of strings may be random , but the algorithm works better if some of the ones it starts with are varied but fairly sensible . |