Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUDY MOWATT , one third of Marley 's backing singers , The I-Threes , is not rich , asking a hundred US dollars for an interview , but she lives in the better part of Kingston . |
| 2 | It is wisest to treat each variety according to the details and information that will be contained in the better kind of catalogue — the sort of information which will also influence your decision where to order . |
| 3 | A cost cutting programme also contributed to the better figures at the company . |
| 4 | The Spanish Enlightenment remained a government-sponsored , government-censored movement largely confined to the better spirits of the public administration . |
| 5 | The trade-weighted index was also lifted by the better sentiment towards the pound , rising from a historic opening low of 75.7 to end at 76.3 . |
| 6 | Many of the GPs who are now budget holders are proudly boasting of the better service they can offer patients but all freely admit that it is at the expense of the patients of nonbudget-holding GPs . |
| 7 | It was felt that VD was naturally confined to the unwashed , unkempt , and morally barren , and , when occasionally seen in the better class of person , resulted from some supreme temptation that had been put before them , for indulgence in whose pleasures they could hardly be blamed . |
| 8 | Our ancestors could recognise good land , and early settlements were almost invariably sited on the better land . |
| 9 | Wherever possible , the project and surveys undertaken in training should be drawn directly from the working life of the participant and selected because they will contribute to the better management of the school . |
| 10 | But , if they give up , they ca n't really contribute to the better quality of society . |
| 11 | All entrances close using zips — look for the better quality self-repairing coil zips . |
| 12 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 13 | ( Superior quality Australian , New Zealand and Belouch wool is often used in the better items , however . ) |
| 14 | The funny thing is that er if you look at the better dividend funds in the year of the crash , the dividends actually went up , cos dividend yields from companies were good in that year , so people would n't have lost out , their income would have been quite stable . |
| 15 | If one male was defending a better territory than another male , the female might be selected to mate with the better male . |
| 16 | The report called for the better organization of training and education between employers , trade unions and individuals . |
| 17 | If the answer to these questions is ‘ yes ’ , then we are back to something rather similar to Durkheim 's adaptive function : today 's criminals are in fact helping to usher in the better society of tomorrow . |
| 18 | Here you will need to reduce the airbrake to continue the float and then , as you get to the better ground , to re-open them to make the landing . |
| 19 | The resulting pressures on children in getting to the better universities and the question of whether access is open will be considered later . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Test material which was adapted from the Better Shoe promotional scheme , incorporated the health visitor 's own beliefs . |
| 22 | That did not happen in the better days that have gone . |
| 23 | The Working Party on Internal Migration in Britain , which was set up by the Institute of British Geographers in l988 , aims at the better understanding of the patterns , causes and implications of migration in Britain . |
| 24 | Why is it , for example , that every single Trust employee above the level of gardener 's mate speaks with an exquisite Wykehamist accent of the kind rarely heard outside the better cavalry regiments ? |
| 25 | The fictional drama that had seemed to appeal to the better classes was now being offered to a mass society . |
| 26 | as if pleading helped — she might as well try to appeal to the better nature of a power-crazed tyrant . |
| 27 | Goal attainment is also improved in the long run : leadership development among the clients is a goal by itself , and the strengthening of client independence will lead to the better preservation of any other outputs achieved . |
| 28 | Equally predictable is the fact that the vast majority of council tenants who have bought their houses are among the better-paid and live in the better housing estates . |
| 29 | These have resulted in the better definition of defect dependent growth , morphological control by physical and chemical means and the influence of structure in both the surface and the dispersed phase on the growth process . |
| 30 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |