Example sentences of "in a [adj -er] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them to leave her be , she was in a better state to understand him than anyone else there . |
| 2 | He 'd never be in a better position to do it . |
| 3 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 4 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 5 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Football clubs will offer their best players new flats with maybe three bedrooms in a better area to get them to sign . |
| 7 | He ran a tremulous fingertip over her lips in a further gesture to silence her as if he could n't bear the pain of hearing the words spoken . |