Example sentences of "[noun] better [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 2 | By these devices through traffic would be deflected onto high-capacity ‘ primary distributor ’ roads better suited to higher speeds , so that safety and environmental improvements would take place in the residential areas . |
| 3 | In general , safety and environmental benefits are sought in the living areas and through traffic is deflected on to those roads better suited to its needs for speed and high capacity . |
| 4 | But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere . |
| 5 | Hence the optimists believe that it is difficult to visualise circumstances better suited to a successful devaluation than the ones currently offered . |
| 6 | It is the first drop of a deluge of such material , which makes social life in Egypt in the centuries after Alexander better known to us than any other part of the ancient world . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's certainly needed , ’ said Karelius , ‘ but I 'd have thought infantry better suited to the job . |
| 8 | This makes the sail better suited to both light and strong winds . |
| 9 | Is video better suited to one stage of a lesson rather than another ? |
| 10 | This led to elections for a new Constituent Assembly in which the Christian Democrats emerged as the strongest party , had one of their leaders — Georges Bidault — made premier , and were then able to draw up a constitution better suited to their tastes . |
| 11 | And of the proposed Mansion House Square project , he went on , ‘ It would be a tragedy if the character and skyline of our capital city were to be further ruined and St Paul 's dwarfed by yet another giant glass stump better suited to downtown Chicago than to the City of London . ’ |
| 12 | SAVE and many others ( including the prince of Wales who compared the proposed building to ‘ a glass stump better suited to downtown Chicago ’ ) believed the new scheme would be simply disastrous . |
| 13 | There is a tendency among corporate law scholars to dismiss the debate about the nature of the company and corporate personality as too rarefied and speculative an enquiry better left to properly qualified jurisprudential writers . |
| 14 | They finish with a rather ham ‘ Ballad Of John And Yoko ’ , a song better left to their contemporaries but we can forgive them one indiscretion . |
| 15 | They finish with a rather ham ‘ Ballad Of John And Yoko ’ , a song better left to their contemporaries but we can forgive them one indiscretion . |
| 16 | Any species must eventually become extinct ; for changes in local conditions will sooner or later allow other species better adapted to the changed conditions to invade and conquer in the struggle for existence . |
| 17 | The three other seeds in his section Ivan Lendl , Andrei Medvedev and Thomas Muster all have games better suited to slower surfaces . |
| 18 | ‘ It would mean you 'd get the chance to pick out four players better suited to your needs with very little money changing hands , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There , with names like Reichensteiner , Huxelrube , Faber and Bacchus , we find grapes better suited to our growing conditions . |
| 20 | If there is a publication anywhere in the world better suited to the twelve-year-old-boy mentality , I ca n't imagine what it is . |
| 21 | Individuals should follow an indirect strategy , guiding their action by one standard in order better to conform to another . |
| 22 | If such schemes can successfully be developed they may provide future services better suited to the needs of the elderly at lower costs than the continued use of social and health services on current levels . |
| 23 | The other configurations of front points are generally found on crampons better suited to pure snow and ice routes . |
| 24 | Moreover , it can be argued that MDC 's revised strategy , focusing upon leisure and tourism , supplies jobs better suited to the skills of the local population than the London Docklands emphasis on service sector growth . |