Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 2 | Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today . |
| 3 | CHANGE FOR THE BETTER |
| 4 | Employees change for the better when they work in the community . |
| 5 | People never change for the better by being hated , judged and condemned . |
| 6 | Some people change for the better . |
| 7 | Details of the proposals will be contained in a brochure , A Change for the Better , which Prof Anderson said would form part of a major consultation process with the public throughout the region . |
| 8 | And they Sought for a Better Sign from Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , and there was a Sign ; ii . |
| 9 | Of course it was too early in his life to be certain that the gods had called him , but I could have wished for no better career for him than that of a priest-administrator . |
| 10 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 11 | But if you want real change , if you long for a better future for yourself , your family , your community and your country , then read on . |
| 12 | It is a sense of revulsion at injustice and poverty and denied opportunity , whether at home or abroad , which impels people to work for a better world , to become , as in our case , democratic socialists . |
| 13 | Revulsion at injustice , poverty and denied opportunity , he says , impels people to work for a better world . |
| 14 | HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD |
| 15 | If you hope for a better world then maybe if you try hard enough , it can be achieved . |
| 16 | Looking for a better bet |
| 17 | Do n't wait for it Appleton if you want to save your insipid self from being punctured or badly handled all you can Do for the Better of our ESTEEMED BURMA is GET OUT ! |
| 18 | Hope keeps the characters searching for a better life . |
| 19 | All entrances close using zips — look for the better quality self-repairing coil zips . |
| 20 | The north-east has been transformed for the better , not least by the flow of inward investment and the diversification that has taken place . |
| 21 | ICI Seeds GROWING FOR A BETTER FUTURE |
| 22 | As he observed in the report , if the Allies could ‘ plan for a better peace even while waging war , they will win together two victories which in truth are indivisible ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Feeling the necessity that exists for a better regulation in the management of our profession and for a more organised system of educating and examining its practitioners , we have condensed in the annexed Petition the principal substance of our wants and to which we most humbly but most anxiously solicit your Lordship 's kind attention ’ . |
| 24 | In Sabah the United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) won 14 of 20 federal seats , and was expected to press for a better return from the exploitation of Sabah 's natural resources . |
| 25 | NAM originated in the Bandung Conference of 1955 , where a large number of poor African and Asian countries called for a better economic deal from the rich countries of the world . |
| 26 | The report called for the better organization of training and education between employers , trade unions and individuals . |
| 27 | Later she also campaigned for a better understanding of anorexia . |
| 28 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 29 | What the participants in this group discussion saw themselves as doing was working to make sure that their children could hope for a better life . |
| 30 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |