Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 2 | And they Sought for a Better Sign from Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , and there was a Sign ; ii . |
| 3 | Of course it was too early in his life to be certain that the gods had called him , but I could have wished for no better career for him than that of a priest-administrator . |
| 4 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 5 | But if you want real change , if you long for a better future for yourself , your family , your community and your country , then read on . |
| 6 | It is a sense of revulsion at injustice and poverty and denied opportunity , whether at home or abroad , which impels people to work for a better world , to become , as in our case , democratic socialists . |
| 7 | Revulsion at injustice , poverty and denied opportunity , he says , impels people to work for a better world . |
| 8 | HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD |
| 9 | If you hope for a better world then maybe if you try hard enough , it can be achieved . |
| 10 | Looking for a better bet |
| 11 | Hope keeps the characters searching for a better life . |
| 12 | All entrances close using zips — look for the better quality self-repairing coil zips . |
| 13 | ICI Seeds GROWING FOR A BETTER FUTURE |
| 14 | As he observed in the report , if the Allies could ‘ plan for a better peace even while waging war , they will win together two victories which in truth are indivisible ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Feeling the necessity that exists for a better regulation in the management of our profession and for a more organised system of educating and examining its practitioners , we have condensed in the annexed Petition the principal substance of our wants and to which we most humbly but most anxiously solicit your Lordship 's kind attention ’ . |
| 16 | In Sabah the United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) won 14 of 20 federal seats , and was expected to press for a better return from the exploitation of Sabah 's natural resources . |
| 17 | The report called for the better organization of training and education between employers , trade unions and individuals . |
| 18 | Later she also campaigned for a better understanding of anorexia . |
| 19 | What the participants in this group discussion saw themselves as doing was working to make sure that their children could hope for a better life . |
| 20 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 21 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 22 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 23 | But even physical and administrative attacks have not prevented her and her colleagues from continuing to campaign for a better world . |
| 24 | We think you 'll agree — you could n't wish for a better match . |
| 25 | You could n't wish for a better place to work . |
| 26 | ‘ Sure I could n't wish for a better husband for her . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Disappointment with the 1974 proposals led to the formation of the Disability Alliance , a consortium of groups concerned with the disabled , to continue to fight for a better deal . |
| 29 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 30 | Walker recorded a time of 8 mins 26.50 secs in Auckland two years ago , and after a highly successful , injury-free winter , had hoped for a better opening to his steeplechase season . |