Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] better [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 2 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 3 | Francis will desperately want to win tomorrow , and now most of the severe injuries are cleared up , he will be looking for better results . |
| 4 | Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care . |
| 5 | The virtual pay freeze for five million public employees will free £1.5 billion — to be used for better services for the public , he said . |
| 6 | Hence the old , the young , the sick and the mad were to be separated , and within each group those of better behaviour were to be rewarded with better diets or more ‘ comforts ’ . |
| 7 | Why should we spend out eighty thousand could be spent on better things than putting cameras on posts . |
| 8 | The more immediate background to government thinking behind the national curriculum is to be found in Better Schools ( March 1985 ) — published precisely one year after Improving Secondary Schools and with a curiously similar title and its introductory paragraphs : |
| 9 | Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes . |
| 10 | She will be talking about better ways of communicating and improving one 's lifestyle through reduced stress . |
| 11 | In effect , he argued that the policy changes in China that Democrats want to see can be achieved through better mechanisms than attaching conditions to MFN status . |
| 12 | Just as generals always seem to be planning for better ways to fight the last war , so the study of international relations has often reflected the concerns of the previous generation . |
| 13 | Even Tobias and Lydia were housed in better quarters , while he was still ‘ in the lads ’ room' , where he had slept since leaving the cradle . |
| 14 | The good news is , therefore , that despite having been beaten by better sides , improvements are certainly to be expected . |
| 15 | The need for teachers to have ‘ appropriate personal qualities ’ is reiterated in Better Schools since , it is argued , ‘ the personality of the teacher and his relationships with pupils ’ promote high standards . |
| 16 | In the meantime , Detroit hopes to get some help in tackling the research problems it faces in dealing with environmental regulation and is counting on better relations with Washington . |
| 17 | But Ian Shiels , who works in the warehouse and has been responsible for football activity in the past , is aware of this and is hoping for better things to come . |
| 18 | She 's hoping for better things this time round . |
| 19 | It will be the most able who are recruited to better appointments . |