Example sentences of "[prep] [art] better [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This has considered various innovatory ideas for the better dispatch of civil business . |
2 | She never knew them , she pined for them and for the better life they might have had together . |
3 | But further proposals for the better reflection of system costs were rejected . |
4 | Cecil Melling ( the chairman of the Eastern Board , who had supported Schiller 's work since before nationalisation and took costing more seriously than his fellow chairmen ) for a time gained the support of the Central Authority 's commercial department for the better reflection of off-peak costs in the bulk tariff , but the other Area Board chairmen strongly opposed the initiative . |
5 | The petition produced a negative reply from the Home Office in July 1903 , but the episode is noteworthy as one of the innumerable steps taken by the BDDA in its campaign for the better education of deaf and dumb children . |
6 | FOR THE better part of two decades , Duke Kahanamoku was the best swimmer in the world . |
7 | Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour . |
8 | ‘ But we do n't have many holiday houses lying empty for the better part of the year , ’ said one local , proudly . |
9 | Herrmann , a Wharton MBA who has been with Solbourne for the better part of a year , has a components background , having previously run Amphenol in Hong Kong . |
10 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
11 | The downward spiral in their relationship was observed by the poet Alan Ross , who lodged in the boiler room at 37 Hamilton Terrace for the better part of a year . |
12 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
13 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
14 | The ILN commenced publication in 1842 and for the better part of the 19th and early years of the 20th century enjoyed enormous popularity because it was able regularly to reproduce illustrations when the newspapers could not . |
15 | If the purpose of the annexation be for the better enjoyment of the object itself , it may remain a chattel , notwithstanding a high degree of physical annexation . |
16 | Their motives tend , I suspect , to be a mixture of concern for their own and their families ' future , concern for countries and people who are less well-off than they are and a sympathetic response based on a wish for the better treatment of the animal world . |
17 | Plans for broadcasting in the First Five Year Plan included the setting up of community listening points , the building of regional and satellite stations , the replacement of transmitters and the provision of a tape transcription service for the better preservation and use of recorded material at Broadcasting House . |
18 | By the same token , those of us who become victims of fatal disease should be willing to submit to medical research for the better advantage of humanity . |
19 | Noell also had Irish interests , for the better protection of which he became a member of the Irish Parliament ( from 1661 to his death ) . |
20 | Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’ |
21 | Franklin , who was 18 years Gould 's senior , had established ‘ for the better class of colonists ’ a scientific society , the first of its kind in the colonies ( and later to become the Royal Society of Hobart Town ) and welcomed the ornithologist 's arrival with great enthusiasm . |
22 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
23 | And the cost of admission for the better seats in the house — £30 and £23 . |
24 | One can look around the world but even though there are somewhat similar leathers produced in South America and Africa , they 're not really quite suitable for the better end of the Walsall trade . |
25 | All entrances close using zips — look for the better quality self-repairing coil zips . |
26 | The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ . |
27 | He recommended to them lists of books for the better understanding of their religion , and the advice was excellent . |
28 | William Elstobb found the eighteenth-century fenmen content with ‘ uncomfortable accommodations ’ ; and Vancouver wrote of Burwell in 1794 : ‘ Any attempt in contemplation for the better drainage of this fen is considered hostile to the true interests of these deluded people . ’ |
29 | The House of Industry was established by an Act of Parliament of George III , 1794 , ‘ … for the better regulation and employment of the poor in the town of Bedford ’ . |
30 | He concluded : ‘ But in my judgment the powers to seize and retain are conferred for the better performances of public functions by public bodies and can not be used to make information available to private individuals for their private purposes . ’ |