Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 2 | It is in this sense that the former has a greater valency and so constitutes a better learning investment . |
| 3 | What 's more , we 'll give families the economic and technical support they need to irrigate land , grow crops , raise livestock and so provide a better future for their children . |
| 4 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 5 | Further , the retardation of maturity not only preserved a better brain/ body-weight ratio but also extended the period of educability and cognitive development which characterizes primate childhoods . |
| 6 | They have removed the attack on our conference and at last we can now get on together to build a better union . |
| 7 | Eraut ( 1977 ) avoids specifying the content or outcomes of teacher development , having rejected the assumption that a teacher who has developed has necessarily become a better teacher . |
| 8 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
| 9 | From the corner of my eye I saw Nigger retreat a couple of paw lengths , perhaps to get a better run at me . |
| 10 | It is also worthwhile attempting the occasional no airbrake touch down to get a better idea of how far your glider will float . |
| 11 | The intention is that students of elaborate structures in language should be able to construct them as well as receive and consume them , if only to achieve a better understanding of how poems are made . |
| 12 | Patrons who pay ten pounds to see and hear what is going on deserved a better service than they got . |
| 13 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 14 | Because here you have an opportunity to go launch yourself onto a self employed erm platform and can not provide a better platform for that and I would say that would n't I he 's thinking . |
| 15 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 16 | Manager Lennie Lawrence saluted Stuart Ripley 's ‘ wonder ’ goal : ‘ If you watch Sky Television , and watch Italian football , you will not see a better goal than that . |
| 17 | You will not see a better performance than this all year . |
| 18 | Pyridinoline ( also known as hydroxylysyl pyridinoline ) and deoxypyrolidine ( also known as lysyl-proline ) are not further metabolised , thus providing a better index of resorption than hydroxyproline , which also has the disadvantage that it is found in skin as well as bone . |
| 19 | This would be soiled over to give a better finish than presently shown . |
| 20 | When I went out there with Sandra I was told that you normally get a better rate of exchange in the country when you change travellers cheques . |
| 21 | It promises to be a very close encounter , but North will not have a better chance to redress the balance against the runaway Ulster League winners . |
| 22 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 23 | But it 's a pity she did not have a better showcase for her talents . |
| 24 | Built in 1540 , these lovely red-brick stables have been loaned to the Horse Rangers by grace and favour since 1964 , and could not have a better tenant than this exclusive voluntary organisation — exclusive that is to children who do not have their own horses and ponies . |
| 25 | Before taking this as a general licence for an active industrial policy to manage change , governments must ask why the market is not doing a better job , and whether intervention can itself improve on the existing situation . |
| 26 | Punishing someone for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern . |
| 27 | ‘ And you will not get a better service for some long time to come , ’ he said on BBC radio . |
| 28 | We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir . |
| 29 | This was unusual as we normally have a better record of reliability than that . ’ |
| 30 | Even in the first century A.D. the author of the Periplus maris Erythraei can not find a better accomplishment for a king of Ethiopia — to counterbalance his notorious greed for money — than his knowledge of Greek . |