Example sentences of "[verb] [art] better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 2 | Senna desperately needed to beat Mansell at the start but the Williams made the better getaway . |
| 3 | Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast . |
| 4 | Even though they were against the wind , Colleges made the better start and after Thomson had missed two penalties and John Mackenzie had had a ‘ try ’ disallowed for a foot in touch ( signalled by the Colleges touch judge Bert Barclay ) the home side went 10-0 up . |
| 5 | It is , in fact , a diversion of resources away from the priorities which existed at the end of 1988 which were to develop the management accounting skills of the NHS : particularly to promote the better use of resources through the RMI . |
| 6 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 7 | Lots of people do n't like him , and some actively loathe him , but try to see the better side . |
| 8 | Perhaps Alice would make the better wife . |
| 9 | Who would make the better monarch ? |
| 10 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 11 | ‘ On balance , it has been concluded that , of the two projects , Fams offers the better prospect of providing an affordable and capable system within the timescale . ’ |
| 12 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 13 | a change in the departmental structure creating giant super-ministries such as Department of the Environment and the Department of Trade and Industry to suck back decision-taking from the centre ; and the establishment of business-like organizations , such as the Property Services Agency and the Procurement Executive , to secure the better management of large blocks of Whitehall work ; |
| 14 | The publication of land registers for the greater part of the country represents a major opportunity to secure the better use of massive acreages of underused land . |
| 15 | This research therefore aims to isolate the better performing UK companies and to examine their marketing activities in order to develop a better understanding of best marketing practice . |
| 16 | MAUREEN : Well the A set certainly has the better tone . |
| 17 | The Midlander has the better claim for the title of Typical Irishman . |
| 18 | Between the main road and the sea are the small , cliff side resorts , first of Bid art , which has a delightful town square , very Basque , with church , pelota wall and hotels gathered affably together , and excellent beaches to walk down to ; and then of Guéthary , which is smaller , lower down and less of a village than Bidart , but has the better coastline . |
| 19 | A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer . |
| 20 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 21 | 87% of all mothers found the Better Shoe fit card useful and said they were likely to keep it . |
| 22 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 23 | It seems clear that epidemics of the bubonic type became increasingly limited to the towns , which provided a better habitat for the plague-carrying black rat . |
| 24 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 25 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 26 | The development was welcomed by exhibitors , who felt that stage adaptations would enable them to attract a better class of customer , but they were n't to know what they were letting themselves in for . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll also need a better cover story , ’ he added , ‘ if you 're going to be seen around with Hurley and his crowd . |
| 28 | But the lovers kissing , the lady with a book , the donkey , the antelope , the lion , the scorpion and the rest of the menagerie may need a better imagination or a more discerning eye . |
| 29 | ‘ Certainly we 'll need a better ship than the kind I 've seen in Pantai and Losan . ’ |
| 30 | They provide a better range , so why reinvent the wheel ? ’ |