Example sentences of "[verb] a better job [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes . |
| 2 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 3 | The Royal African Company came under criticism from the West India sugar planters , who clamoured for more slaves to be supplied without explaining how they would be paid for , and also from other English merchants who thought they could do a better job of supplying slaves . |
| 4 | I think that they are likely to give a better idea of what the finished advertisement will look like and can do a better job of communicating the necessary commitment to their way of presenting the product than can the account executive . |
| 5 | When asked which candidate would do a better job at ‘ Keeping the United States out of war ’ , 50 per cent of those polled said Carter while 25 per cent opted for Ronald Reagan . |
| 6 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 7 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 8 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
| 9 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 10 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 11 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 12 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But if they wanted to kidnap you , why did n't they make a better job of it ? ’ asked Jack . |
| 14 | At the same time it is no less obvious that the very purpose of criticism levelled at those who have the conduct of public affairs by their political opponents is to undermine public confidence in their stewardship and to persuade the electorate that the opponents would make a better job of it than those presently holding office . |
| 15 | I 'll probably make a better job of it than you would . ’ |
| 16 | Then when I 'd proved I could do that really well , horrible and moronic as it was , I let myself off and got a better job nearer my heart 's desire . " |
| 17 | If local services can promise relief of one kind or another , you may be able to undertake the care , make a better job of it and still save local services some money . |
| 18 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 19 | This is one of the thin times , but I ca n't think of any other manager to do a better job for Nottingham Forest at the moment than Brian Clough . ’ |
| 20 | You know , about the crime statistics ; really what she 's saying is that parents ought to do a better job for their children , and I 'm sure we all agree with that but I think that that 's a very superficial response to what is er an enormous question of parents just being too poor and having nothing to give their children in the way of just basic food , basic medicines , to keep them alive . |
| 21 | Country always comes before club , but someone could try a better job of arranging fixture to avoid such problems . |
| 22 | And indeed I would argue that Linnaeus , in his role as classifying naturalist , did a better job at putting the varieties of mankind into their mutual relationships than did idealist philosophers like Rousseau and Jefferson . |
| 23 | I think Tracy did a better job of conveying her experiences of the race than Skip . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps in Bearsden or Newton Mearns , ’ he said , struggling to pronounce the names of two expensive Glasgow suburbs and yet making a better job of it than BBC newsreaders . |
| 25 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |
| 26 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |
| 27 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
| 28 | Do you find that women 's schools do a better job of educating women than mixed schools ? |
| 29 | This paraphrase is not entirely appropriate as a description of the meaning expressed however ; Jespersen ( 1940 : 280 ) does a better job of it when he characterizes the sense of see with the bare infinitive as that of " immediate perception " , and its sense with the to infinitive as that of " inference " . |
| 30 | They love it , it 's perfect , so then you get to , you know , pop culture in general and the British press does a better job of covering rock and roll and , you know , social life than the American press does . |