Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glue should be spread on one surface only and if the material is cold to the touch , it should be gently warmed to ensure a better bond . |
| 2 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 3 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 4 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 5 | John could hardly have found a better influence . |
| 6 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 7 | The union will also try to provide a better class of men for the Merchant Service , and will see that crews join their ship punctually and in a sober condition ; it will help shipwrecked mariners ; it will provide assistance to members travelling in search of work ; it will establish a sick benefit and a burial fund . |
| 8 | * I always think that it is best to pour the tea onto milk in the cup as this distributes the milk more evenly — it also seems to produce a better colour . |
| 9 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 10 | You 're not that blonde one I 've noticed driving around and nearly swerved to have a better look at the other day are you ? |
| 11 | In the past this aspect of training has been overemphasized but efforts are now made to strike a better balance . |
| 12 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 13 | They fear that bankers may now reckon to get a better return by selling off firms ' assets quickly than by keeping debtors alive . |
| 14 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 15 | He had never , he wrote to his superiors , seen an operation so badly planned or so amateurishly organized ; ‘ at the CIA , we really do run a better show than that . ’ |
| 16 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 17 | The TS4525 is n't the fastest tape unit around , but you 'll be hard put to find a better compromise between performance and convenience . |
| 18 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |