Example sentences of "[art] better [noun] of [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 2 | More conventional thinkers in the Labour leadership saw discretion as the better part of valour and held their fire . |
| 3 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 4 | The report called for the better organization of training and education between employers , trade unions and individuals . |
| 5 | It funds research into the better health of women and babies around the country . |
| 6 | Plans for the better distribution of population and employment were still needed , but one academic observer reported in 1957 : After 13 years the Conservatives lost office ; in the general election of October 1964 Harold Wilson won power with a slender majority of four over the other parties . |
| 7 | The better quality of Danby and the other famous names of the Bristol School take them into an even higher price range . |
| 8 | To a politician there was no better means of building and preserving a political interest than a demonstrated ability to secure some of the Indian patronage . |
| 9 | There can be no better way to ensure a successful personal injury ( PI ) practice than by doing the work well ; there is no better source of advertising than a satisfied client . |
| 10 | The move to 3.9 litres means more power , a better spread of torque and a more sympathetic match for the ZF four-speed automatic transmission . |
| 11 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 12 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 13 | It will lead to a better choice of candidates and ensure that more women and candidates from minority ethnic communities are elected . |
| 14 | Even those near the edge stand a better chance of survival than if they had been in a solitary nest far away in a place where local foxes can consume everything that is available . |
| 15 | FORMER CBI chief Sir Terence Beckett claims North-East small businesses have a better chance of survival than their counterparts elsewhere in the country . |
| 16 | I came to the project from a background in and around off-site education , convinced that while removing a disaffected minority from the mainstream might give those pupils a better chance of survival and their teachers relief from extreme disruption , it did nothing to change the factors which produced that disaffection . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the recipient of this altruism stands a better chance of survival and , more importantly , its genes stand improved possibilities for replication and expansion . |
| 18 | ‘ Sealink shares the view that scope for higher fares may now be greater but the economies of pooling would enable the ferries to offer a superior , uniform product and have a better chance of survival if the tunnel competition proves to be severe . ’ |
| 19 | HEART attack victims stand a better chance of survival if they have a good network of friends and neighbours , researchers announced today . |
| 20 | A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 . |
| 21 | Similarly , although they show remarkable powers of regeneration in the aquarium , there is a better chance of success if the animal is undamaged when purchased , so it 's wise to look for cuts and splits of any kind , and reject animals that show them . |
| 22 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 23 | Diminished responsibility could also be accommodated , although a general defence of mental disorder remains a better way of labelling and dealing with cases of clinical mental disorder . |
| 24 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 25 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 26 | Munnings , he told reporters , was a better judge of horses than paintings . |
| 27 | For example , life expectancy is a better measure of health services than numbers of doctors per person , and calorie supply per capita is a better measure of nutrition than total production of food . |
| 28 | He found that the use of this weighting factor gave a better indicator of quality than the numbers of citations or of the numbers of papers published . |
| 29 | It is a better provider of energy than chocolate because of the lack of fat , plus it comprises a balance of three different natural sugars ; glucose , fructose and sucrose . |
| 30 | ‘ We have a better level of funding than many areas , but it is still discretionary and could be taken away . ’ |