Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Either way , the best hope of predicting such events , and mitigating their impact , lies in a better understanding of the southern oscillation and its role in the circulation of the southern hemisphere . |
| 3 | This is something no ordinary parent could even begin to enforce and no judicial parent stands in a better position than a natural parent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 7 | It is widely assumed that restoration of intestinal continuity inevitably results in a better quality of life for the patient , but that is not necessarily the case . |
| 8 | Only a few words , and you can be taken out of this cell , fed , warmed , lodged in a better place , ’ he tempted softly . |
| 9 | ‘ The North-East programme will result in a better service and a more pleasant journey for rail travellers . ’ |
| 10 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 11 | The process of modelling the organisation should result in a better understanding of the business . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then too some of the new man-made fibres are improving ; they are losing their old harshness of touch and are being produced in a better range of colours . |
| 14 | ( Superior quality Australian , New Zealand and Belouch wool is often used in the better items , however . ) |
| 15 | Winger Lee Sharpe scored the first goal of his memorable comeback and said : ‘ I do n't think I 've ever played in a better team perform-ance . |
| 16 | If she kept quiet Penry might sleep longer , and wake in a better mood . |
| 17 | He says the publicity would raise public awareness to the Federation 's work in highlighting such areas as over-fishing , pollution and illegal netting , resulting in a better understanding of the IFSA and more public support . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Years before , Nietzsche had written : " the past is dearer to me than the present ; but I believe in a better future " . |
| 20 | That did not happen in the better days that have gone . |
| 21 | Perfect timing , then , for the EC 's dismal reputation to be cast in a better light by an impartial judge . |
| 22 | For example , Jones ( 1976 ) in a study of central Wales found that employment , the desire to live in a better area and a former link with the area were important reasons for explaining the success of a growth pole town , Newtown . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He devoted his life to politics for a twofold purpose : to ensure that the useless slaughter of the First World War was not repeated , and that the survivors of that horrific experience should live in a better world . |
| 26 | When landlords refused to open their granaries , he went with an army of tribal people to loot them , promising to return what they had taken in a better season . |
| 27 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |