Example sentences of "better [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they illustrate better the shifting balance within conglomerates between one media interest and another and secondly , the trend toward internationalization . |
| 2 | To understand better the geothermal history of the region , we collected samples of geothermal silica ( Fig. 1 ) for age determination by uranium-series ( U-series ) methods ( Table 1 ) . |
| 3 | Ross had previously noticed that Minton seemed slightly uneasy on his own , ‘ as if questions might be put to him that he preferred not to consider ’ , and liked better the easy banter encouraged by the presence of a crowd . |
| 4 | Various experiments were performed to verify that the imaging technique would give consistent results and to understand better the various parameter values ( illumination , exposure , the structure of the subjects to be measured ) affecting the measurement . |
| 5 | This illustrates better the total effect of stratification on the boundary layer ( but the reduction of all cases to a single curve is lost ) . |
| 6 | Better the weary smell of minced beef and boiled cabbage than the acrid stench of Virginian cigarettes , the mawkish smell of warm beer , and whisky and petrol fumes . |
| 7 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 8 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 9 | A 39th successive game without defeat would better the previous record , set by Rangers ' treble-winning side from the 1975-76 season . |
| 10 | Further studies will attempt to elucidate the mechanism of this mucosal defect which may help us to understand better the underlying pathogenesis of human duodenal ulcer and to improve treatment . |
| 11 | Better a tough general in charge , was their argument , to ensure the stability of the US-Panama relationship , than a weak civilian regime unable to control nationalist hotheads . |
| 12 | But the speaker had raised waste as a defence of private enterprise , as an implicit attack on government economic policy , suggesting that the state could only better a free market by open or hidden subsidies . |
| 13 | Better a steady flame than one that flares up and burns itself out . ’ |
| 14 | Better a researched decision than a random one . |
| 15 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 16 | ‘ Better an honest raven than a deceitful magpie , eh ? ’ he said , quoting the old Han adage . |
| 17 | Better an early climb-down in some sheltered private meeting , he argued , than a humiliation on the floor of the House . |