Example sentences of "the [noun pl] a better [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The aim is to give the readers a better Perspective than could be obtained by examining a large number of separate reports of individual companies .
2 This gives the technicians a better idea of your voice and relaxes you .
3 To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm .
4 He swore viciously , turned the mare a touch westward again , but that merely gave the pursuers a better angle to close on him .
5 For most people , getting on in life , winning promotion , saving a bit , going on a better holiday , buying a car , purchasing a home , giving the children a better start — all these are natural aims .
6 He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start .
7 As reported in the Financial Times , he said that the trade union movement would be demanding and , he hoped , achieving the implementation of the proposals for industrial democracy ; and that the next decade would offer the unions a better chance than any other to bring in the desired change .
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