Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short-term City reaction to Budgets can be notoriously wrong , but this spring a better guide might be how easily the Government can finance next year 's massive £50 billion PSBR . |
| 2 | In real life , Wilf devotes his time to dreaming up new ideas that could help make this planet a better place to be . |
| 3 | Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’ |
| 4 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 5 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 6 | Is Western conventional wisdom a better guide to reality today than it was twenty-five years ago ? |
| 7 | A woman spends years saying no , not this one , stay out of my bed : I 'll wait , a better man will come along : and with the better man a better baby . |
| 8 | It is only when the friends of the deaf demand a better deal that the deaf will get it . |
| 9 | In polyethylene , it will give a small child a better seating position . |
| 10 | Mayer is a Yale-trained lawyer , his background is equally in racing and business , he knows the value of money and how to extract it from sponsors and also was among the first to appreciate , in the changing nature of the sport that the big bucks and the big battalions give any team a better chance of achieving championship results . |