Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a better [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A story is when McTavish wants to build a better world for everyone — just like you have it in the book , I do n't want to change anything — and the local hoods jump on him . |
| 2 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 3 | However , the death of Josef Stalin in March 1953 seemed to bring a better chance for talks and revolutionised the international situation . |
| 4 | One could not hope to find a better medium for escape than a pair of metaphorical , spiritual wings . |
| 5 | Despite its many faults , it is striving to build a better future for all its citizens — of whatever colour , creed or origin . |
| 6 | And what about those businesspeople who are trying to get a better deal for the new photocopier , settle a departmental dispute , win a new client , bring the audit fees down ? |
| 7 | It continues themes from ‘ It 's our business ’ and shows many of the things you have asked to see , such as people in a variety of local offices , trying out different ways of working to provide a better service for our clients and better value for money . |
| 8 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |