Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should 've brought better chairs . |
| 2 | The English were blamed , and yet Darien was one of a number of events that convinced the Lowland Scots that they should try to reach better terms with England before attempting to become independent ; in 1707 England and Scotland became united with a single government and a single Parliament , and one of the terms of the Union was that the Darien investors should be reimbursed for their losses . |
| 3 | I should have taken better care of you . ’ |
| 4 | The association also says the Government should legislate to give better protection from encroachment and development to the green belts and other urban fringe areas . |
| 5 | He should learn to give better tips and keep his loins on a leash . |
| 6 | AFTER lunching with Tory candidate Simon Fowler attacking Frank Cook 's 881 Labour majority in Stockton North last Tuesday 's Diary suggested that the sandwiches at the Centenary in Norton might have seen better days . |
| 7 | In fact , apart from torturing their pupils daily , they had taught them well enough ; brighter subjects might have produced better results . |
| 8 | Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer . |
| 9 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 10 | There have been rumours that investors holding £450 million worth of Swiss , German , French and Ecu denominated Eurobonds , may attempt to negotiate better terms from Heron . |
| 11 | Beyond this the state may wish to encourage better quality service and extend the range of activities that private doctors provide to include preventive programmes such as immunisation . |
| 12 | I would like to see better controls at the docks to stop them getting through . ’ |
| 13 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have chosen better circumstances , ’ said Rocastle . |
| 15 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 16 | The rate at which Sunday schools sprang up nevertheless strengthened the authorities ' conviction that they would have to make better provision for the education of the masses . |
| 17 | Also field independence increases with age , so that one would tend to predict better learning with grammatical approaches with older people . |
| 18 | The anti-green lobby will have to find better reasons for failing to clean up motoring . |
| 19 | This may help them assess the range of teaching quality within the school , on the assumption that a generally high level of provision across the week for a given class will tend to produce better attendance and vice versa . |
| 20 | For example , advertisements for camping enthusiasts will tend to produce better results in camping magazines than in national newspapers or magazines aimed at other interest groups , such as collectors of antique furniture . |