Example sentences of "[verb] the better " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 2 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 3 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 4 | If a terrorist group is operating in the area then the sooner they are stopped the better . ’ |
| 5 | Senna desperately needed to beat Mansell at the start but the Williams made the better getaway . |
| 6 | Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast . |
| 7 | Even though they were against the wind , Colleges made the better start and after Thomson had missed two penalties and John Mackenzie had had a ‘ try ’ disallowed for a foot in touch ( signalled by the Colleges touch judge Bert Barclay ) the home side went 10-0 up . |
| 8 | Obviously the more donations made the better . |
| 9 | It is , in fact , a diversion of resources away from the priorities which existed at the end of 1988 which were to develop the management accounting skills of the NHS : particularly to promote the better use of resources through the RMI . |
| 10 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 11 | The longer this salad chills the better the flavour . |
| 12 | Lots of people do n't like him , and some actively loathe him , but try to see the better side . |
| 13 | Who would make the better monarch ? |
| 14 | Perhaps Alice would make the better wife . |
| 15 | As a member of one of the two departments into which the direction politique of the foreign ministry was then divided , he found that he and his colleagues spent much of their time playing draughts and that there was considerable rivalry between the two as to which could make the better " five o'clock tea " . |
| 16 | The more one 's reasoning abilities are developed the better one 's anticipation of the syntax and vocabulary of English , and the greater the field independence then the better the performance in sign language tasks . |
| 17 | Most of the work on the land was done by the villa slaves under the eagle eye of the owner , and it was the way he organised his labourers which produced the better results . |
| 18 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 19 | A trio of English runners featured in the women 's 1500 metres where the two 800 metres runners got the better of the specialist at the distance , Christina Cahill . |
| 20 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 21 | Beattie easily got the better of Kevin Schwantz on the second lap , leaving the Lucky Strike Suzuki rider from Texas with a tough job to keep his own team-mate Doug Chandler at bay . |
| 22 | We even got the better of the 6th at last , with almost a tap-in for birdie . |
| 23 | One of them always got the better shots . |
| 24 | The whole process became disheartening and , although I tried various mantras , from words I repeated endlessly to candle flames that I stared at , my thoughts always got the better of me . |
| 25 | It was at this critical moment that good sense got the better of the others , Big Pat was calmed down and a semblance of order was restored . |
| 26 | Curiosity got the better of Yanto however , and having vaulted the fence , he made his way over the one hundred and fifty yards of re-claimed field that separated the pub from the riverbank . |
| 27 | The visitors also got the better of the try count , scoring five tries to Worthing 's four in a fast-moving match . |
| 28 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 29 | Apparently a build up of fluff ( so to speak ) clogged its workings and , as he sat to clean it on his lap , passion got the better of him . |
| 30 | The tears she 'd mastered got the better of her . |