Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
| 2 | Instead of glass rovings , the carbon tows are mounted on reels at the start of the process , and these are drawn through vinylester resin which has better wetting characteristics for the carbon . |
| 3 | The Job Training Scheme has been replaced by Employment Training which has better provision for married women . |
| 4 | This , according to the company , gives the pasta a home-made look and a porosity which allows better sauce absorption . |
| 5 | ‘ The way we achieved this was simple — tremendous teamwork by everyone involved , pulling together and making that extra effort which achieves better results ’ , said Plant Manager Phil Blackburn . |
| 6 | In the hands of a skilled and passionate wine-maker , however , they are positively an advantage : no chemical fertilisers mean lower yields , which means better concentration , and in general being ‘ natural ’ should mean more of the personality of the grape , terroir and wine-maker comes through . |
| 7 | The Ford has a more aerodynamic shape than the Mercedes , which means better fuel consumption , and he will not rule out the possibility of switching to Transits at 3.5 tonnes at some stage . |
| 8 | Not only can they support the ‘ lead ’ negotiator to the hilt , they can also improve their personal skills on many levels , which means better co-operation within the organisation . |
| 9 | ( b ) A second possibility , which makes better use of the instruction length , is to calculate an effective store address from the operand and addressing mode fields in the instruction in the normal way ( for example , by adding the contents of an index register ) . |
| 10 | Here is one post-feminist who has better ways of occupying her time . |
| 11 | Clive Brittain , who is quietly confident of a major showing from Top Class in Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , should also maintain an excellent recent run by completing a double with Sloe Berry ( 2.05 ) , who was inched out at Ascot last week , and Charmer ( 2.35 ) , who looks better class than the opposition . |
| 12 | ‘ She has better things to do , as well . ’ |
| 13 | By having the paragraphs indexed as node-link-node triples , one gets better insight into the relationship between the paragraph and the semantic net than when the paragraph is indexed by just a node name . |
| 14 | After all , one expects better value for money for one 's computer time . |
| 15 | Everyone expects better results in the next quarter . |
| 16 | Oh , Milord must n't lose one precious minute of his time or attention when he has better things to do . |
| 17 | He has better things to do than hang around the Tower answering idle questions whilst good men are killed and the murderer walks scot free . ’ |
| 18 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 19 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 20 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 21 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 22 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 23 | ‘ It has better quality people , its productivity has never been so great and yet it is still somewhat traditional in format and operation . |
| 24 | ‘ He uses better stuff . |
| 25 | Locus Computing Corp , Santa Monica will introduce PC-Interface Plus , an updated version of its widely-used PC-Interface product line that enables Unix , MS-DOS and Macintosh users to share files , printers and data across networks : it includes better network printing capabilities , the TinyTerm terminal emulation set and the ability to run multiple , concurrent terminal emulation sessions . |
| 26 | It includes better network printing capabilities , the TinyTerm terminal emulation set and the ability to run multiple , concurrent terminal emulation sessions. +44 442 236111 . |
| 27 | Productivity on the whole range of plant , old and new , may be improved as experience in operating it breeds better methods of organization . |
| 28 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 29 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 30 | Ramshaw is in a terrible mess , he will not play again this year , and he deserves better protection . ’ |