The phrase 'deem better' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an idiomatic expression, which means to believe that one thing is superior or preferable to another. For example, "I deem better to use the green paint for the kitchen walls than the blue one."
Thinking Beyond Size Bigger is generally deemed better in China's billion-person strong consumer market.
Health care companies, deemed better positioned to withstand a still uncertain economy, also buoyed the market.
Her unfaithful rendering of JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy was deemed better than the book by some critics.
But I don't know how they will "protect serendipity" while cutting back commissions to a smaller number of big productions that are deemed "better" from the outset.
That might be true, but it ignores the fact that in the initial wave of adulation the show has routinely been compared with television and deemed better.
"Is this priority standing?" asked a man who was deemed better than all of the other standing people and was allowed inside the tent to stand before all the regular standing people were allowed stand.
If the country's banks are to be criticized to such a degree, it is deemed better to have a notable body inflict the flogging — such as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in the case of Barclays, and the United States Senate for HSBC.
But even that campaign had to be adjusted to local tastes: it was deemed better not to show the women touching each other in America, while in Latin America tactile women didn't shock anybody.
Making it cost them nothing, but it extended by a month the time in which they could sign Jones in case they couldn't find someone they deemed better.
