Example sentences of "[be] [art] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the less elaborate you can be the better . |
| 2 | The Germans this time proved to be the better shots , but were very impressed with the new British SA-80 rife and its optic sight . |
| 3 | If I could take up my pen again and find some hard , satisfying work it would be the better for me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Glasgow would be the better for thoroughly modern apartment towers … perhaps in the Gorbals … ’ |
| 5 | And now you 've asked the question — do you want Charles to be King or would Di be the better monarch — here 's your chance to answer it . |
| 6 | The players , 21 from 28 of whom will be back for the coming season , will be the better for their teething experience ’ . |
| 7 | Crooning would be the better word for it , and as the word suggested itself I had a swift and vivid mental picture of the colony of birds on the west of the island , birds aggressive , protective , maternal , tender . |
| 8 | A sign of the country 's plight is that it is hard to say which would be the better investment . |
| 9 | The latter would appear to be the better view , since those who are ‘ likely to deal ’ would be the general public . |
| 10 | Hence , the child may grow up trying to be the better parent — replacing in itself the " bad " parental elements and exercising its goodness in this respect by Occupying the " good " parental position for others . |
| 11 | In an environment where the data can be coming from ATs , PCs or portables the DaynaFile is obviously going to be the better solution and it has the added benefit of being portable between systems which is not true for the Apple unit . |
| 12 | For though I doubt if he 's ready to own to it yet , I know of another who can and will testify that the two of them were together until the bell sounded for Compline , which would be the better part of an hour later than you have in mind , and a quarter of an hour 's walk from the place , into the bargain . |
| 13 | For those who like access to a big town for sightseeing as well as mountains for skiing and other sports , Pitztal close to Innsbruck would be the better choice . |
| 14 | The fear must be that if your application does n't use the advanced features of Windows , programs that do will be the better sellers . |
| 15 | It is difficult to account for this difference in latency periods , but one contributory factor may be the better bibliographical control of the subject field , as described earlier , which results in increased consultations soon after the theses are deposited . |
| 16 | Where the demised property is of a common type both in character and size , determination by expert is likely to be the better method . |
| 17 | Where the demised property is unusual either in size or in character , or where it is so valuable that small points have large financial consequences , determination by arbitration may be the better method since there will be an opportunity for full argument . |
| 18 | Er business opportunity I suppose would be the better |
| 19 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
| 20 | If someone had never read Lewis before , and wished to get a taste of him , there would be no better book with which to start . |
| 21 | However , this is all rather analytical and intellectual ; and if we ourselves can only function on this rational level , our communication with horses will be no better than a tourist who needs a phrase book or dictionary in a foreign country . |
| 22 | THERE would be no better way for Manchester United to stamp their authority on a Championship race which swung their way at the weekend than to beat arch-rivals Manchester City in their 116th Football League derby at what will be a pulsating Old Trafford tonight . |
| 23 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
| 24 | What is quite clear is that any success will rest on the basic sciences of virology and molecular biology , and that , without research into obscure aspects of these subjects the direct hunt for new cures would be no better than shooting in the dark with unfamiliar weapons at an undefined target . |
| 25 | My friend , however , possessed a Toyota Hilux four-wheel-drive pick-up truck , and there can be no better vehicle in which to trespass than one that looks as if it would get your daughter pregnant and drink all your beer . |
| 26 | There could be no better way of demonstrating the variety of tasks that normally falls on the shoulders of a manager than to reproduce in full in Figure 4.1 the ‘ Allocation of Jobs ’ list that the collective bureau at Charing Cross uses . |
| 27 | Together de Vogüè and Doyard indicated that the Bureau intended by the Vichy government to replace the Commission would be no better and what was required , if the Germans wanted their orders carried out quickly and efficiently , was a body with real powers . |
| 28 | There could be no better evidence that this was not the case than the careers of Murrells and of S.W. Fraser-Smith , who was District Commissioner of the Tanganyika Masai from 1952 to 1955 . |
| 29 | If there had been no Kiss , the world would be no better or no worse off than it is . |
| 30 | But the pittance they would pay him meantime might be no better than what the Professor offered , and at least the occupation of reading would be more satisfactory than dry law . |