Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] better way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd think about a better way to handle Eric once I had that out of the way . |
| 2 | Once the approximate solution has been found then it is no longer a problem situation but a design situation : how can the solution be designed in a better way ? |
| 3 | Even with the benefit of centuries of debate Hollis can think of no better way to support reason than a grand axiological claim : |
| 4 | Three and four decades ago , I was a star-struck cinema-goer who could think of no better way to pass a morning , afternoon or evening than by visiting the local flea-pit . |
| 5 | Can you think of a better way to boost circulation ? |
| 6 | ‘ I am anxious that you should stay here until I return and I can not think of a better way of making sure you do than by putting you in charge of my property , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to have a full career here and I could n't think of a better way to do that . |
| 8 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 9 | So wh what I 'm saying is erm , our modern view , the consequence of this is our modern view of evolution and I ca n't think of a better way to illustrate it than this , is that organisms ultimately are , can really been seen , rather like this . |
| 10 | Encouraging dialogue between individual parent and individual teacher so that each child can be given specific help and encouragement , discussion between parent and teacher being seen as a better way of evaluating progress than a written report . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think you could have thought of a better way of rewarding her , she seems such an independent little thing . ‘ |
| 12 | The very empathy ( charity in the broadest and best sense of the word ) with which he observes his characters seems to point to a better way forward . |
| 13 | If you listened Mark without interrupting , I was just about to say I 'm not trying to convert into a better way of doing things because obviously I do n't know whether that 's a different , a better way of doing it , what I said It 's a just a |
| 14 | Wright could n't have asked for a better way to celebrate his 29th birthday today . |
| 15 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 16 | I liked Nye enormously and knew of no better way of occupying an evening than by listening to him and occasionally , with some temerity , disagreeing with him . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's all right for the moment , but I hope , Jane , that you 'll look higher than domestic activity , and think about a better way of using your energy and intelligence in the service of God . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I want to say to them ‘ think again' and I want to say to them as man to man ‘ think again , go and think about a better way , ’ he said . |
| 19 | think of a better way , that was in the blood , put it like that . |
| 20 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |