Example sentences of "[verb] [art] better [noun] [prep] " 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 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | A hospital admission is frequently accompanied by a more in depth assessment , which may explain the better results for the 25 patients in this subcategory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Midlander has the better claim for the title of Typical Irishman . |
| 11 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Comparisons of species represented in pitfall traps and artificial traps show that the former provide a better sample of small mammals in an area . |
| 16 | On the contrary , he maintains that such a study might well lead to the extension of one 's regard for one 's own religion to other religions , and at the same time , provide a better understanding of one 's own faith . |
| 17 | In addition to descriptive data , which provides greater clarity on how to differentiate among families experiencing a variety of types of abuse when providing the treatment , the studies also provide a better understanding of how to deliver such services to both the adults and the children who have suffered . |
| 18 | The general application of such an assay will probably in itself provide a better understanding of the pathogenesis of AIDS . |
| 19 | Moore says that all these activities provide a better climate in which new technologies will grow . |
| 20 | Do ‘ problems ’ provide a better focus for learning than ‘ theories ’ ? |
| 21 | It is therefore possible that measurements of hepatic venous pressure gradient provide a better estimate of the degree of architectural distortion in acute liver failure than morphometric analysis of liver biopsies . |
| 22 | Analysis of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genesmay provide a better guide to tumour behaviour than conventional techniques . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) It shall be the task of the all-German legislator to introduce regulations no later than Dec. 31 , 1992 , which ensure better protection of unborn life and provide a better solution in conformity with the constitution of conflict situations faced by pregnant women — notably through legally guaranteed entitlements for women , first and foremost to advice and public support — than is the case in either part of Germany at present . |
| 24 | Even if an NHS trust can be demonstrated to be in the interests of patients to reduce waiting lists and provide a better quality of service , they would reject it because they put politics before patients . |
| 25 | What 's more , we 'll give families the economic and technical support they need to irrigate land , grow crops , raise livestock and so provide a better future for their children . |
| 26 | People felt that suburbs or semi-rural estates provide a better environment in which children could be brought up . |
| 27 | LABOUR promised a better future for British women yesterday at the Northern launch of the party 's magazine for women . |
| 28 | They made council housing a priority , and they halved the housing , they promised a better deal for local government and ended up with the elderly freezing in their homes , rubbish piled in the streets and the dead unburied . |
| 29 | We will encounter here Williams 's emphasis on the city as a ‘ front ’ region : a romantic place representing a better life over the horizon is common . |
| 30 | But the emergence of a strong , secular republic in the south could do much to encourage a better neighbourliness in the north . |