Example sentences of "[be] better [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet rather than forming a point between structure and agency , perhaps the role of community groups could be better represented in terms of a continuum between civil society and the state . |
| 2 | However , if lenders and borrowers can be assumed to look further ahead than the immediate moment , and if their guesses about the future are anywhere near what eventually happens , the level of real interest rates in 1984–5 may be better represented by one of the last two columns of Table 8.3 . |
| 3 | Falling industrial employment could in the past be better characterized by reference to product sectors such as cotton , 1945–61 , or coal mining , which lost 317,000 jobs from 1961 to 1971 . |
| 4 | The size of the beds is much more easily appreciated , the spaces between them can be better compared to the dimensions of the beds , and the proportions of the various plants can be correctly assessed , so that mistakes in juxtaposition can be adjusted . |
| 5 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 6 | Your understanding and ability to recall historical ideas and events will be better assisted by reformulating them into your own vocabulary and style . |
| 7 | If the overall effect is to increase profit but not volume the resources may be better utilized in creating a new product . |
| 8 | If the overall effect is to increase profit but not volume the resources may be better utilized in creating a new product . |
| 9 | Indeed , hi-tech could be better understood as a set of principles distilled from a collection of material forms than as objects intended to embody prior principles . |
| 10 | However , they continue : But it may perhaps be better understood as an analytical consequence of the Garfinkelian theory that the fit between organization and phenomena , between rules and their applications , is not determined in advance , but rather is the result of an ad hoc and context-sensitive process , performed by speakers ( by the use of shared " methods " ) , in which the recognition of the social act and the construction of interpretation of sequences of such acts are two sides of the same creative ( but nonetheless organized and accountable ) process . |
| 11 | Biochemical and genetic influences might come to be better understood in dynamic balance or imbalance with each other , and with others — social , cultural , spiritual and cosmological . |
| 12 | There is nothing in the present that can not be better understood in the light of its historical context and origins ; ii ) to arouse interest in the past . |
| 13 | If the 100-μm ridge is associated with the remnant , the latter 's distance could perhaps be better determined by the observation of the ridge at 21cm . |
| 14 | Whether course of employment in a particular statute should include a tea break or the trip to work may be better decided by a tribunal staffed with a lawyer chairman and ‘ wing ’ members representing the interests of trade unionists and employers rather than the ordinary courts . |
| 15 | First , the three-dimensional arrangement of grains can be better studied in slices , whereas thin sections are essentially two-dimensional . |
| 16 | The road is totally unsuitable to serve a further housing development which would be better accessed by the originally proposed route along the existing footpath east of Bellburn Lane . |
| 17 | We must again remind ourselves that there was more than one episode of dinosaur extinction when food and dietary factors have had equal relevance , although each succeeding ( and changed ) species seemed to be better fitted to an ecologically evolved environment . |
| 18 | There is , however , powerful ethnographic evidence to challenge this explanation and to suggest that the ‘ institutionalised greater respect ’ for written language in England can be better explained in terms of political and ideological practices in the real history of that country . |
| 19 | The report , by researchers at Glasgow University 's Centre for Housing Research , was based on a study of nineteen BES companies in Scotland and the authors conclude that BES entails a misdirection of public resources which would be better employed as direct payments to housing associations . |
| 20 | Your energies would be better employed in concentrating on the riots and the panic unfolding on this planet . ’ |
| 21 | In actual fact , that car of his being light , I mean a front wheel drive will probably be able to and being light probably be better served for getting out of difficult situations than the other cars . |
| 22 | The tourist may find guide books excellent value , but an armchair traveller may be better served in other ways . |
| 23 | If the senior manager role can not be rotated consultants in communicable disease control may be better served in another role — for example , as consultants in the many community health departments that now have trust status . |
| 24 | Although the authors see some advantages in a system within the local authority , they conclude that claimants would be better served by independent tribunals and feel Social Security Tribunals are well placed to take on the task . |
| 25 | Judge 's ability to achieve a forceful interaction of character would be better served by something more abstract , like the current Peter Grimes set . |
| 26 | If India 's government is persuaded that warming will produce better and more reliable monsoons , then it might decide that the interests of its burgeoning population would be better served by global warming than by attempts to hold it in check . |
| 27 | The working party decided that users would be better served by a requirement for companies to adopt flow-through accounting for taxation changes , but also suggested some short-term improvements for the meantime . |
| 28 | However , we should always ask whether the functions identified could be better served by alternative methods , as has happened with the development of intermediate treatment for adolescent offenders . |
| 29 | The vagaries of history may lead the same States to favour each policy in turn according to changing circumstances : newly-independent States may resist being held bound by treaties entered into on their behalf , and therefore tend to favour the ‘ clean slate ’ doctrine of succession , although their economic and technical interests may be better served by treaty continuity . |
| 30 | I 'm convinced the public would be better served by a wider cross-section of journalists . |