Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] better [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |