Example sentences of "[verb] better [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The E text , despite surviving in a manuscript eighty years younger than that of C , may sometimes preserve better readings . |
| 2 | Powerful voluntary organisations such as MENCAP ( the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults ) and the Spastics Society have helped to raise political and public awareness of the needs of children with disabilities and have fought hard and on the whole successfully to secure better services for them and for their families . |
| 3 | It was an unfortunate choice of phrase when memories are still fresh of the summer of discontent when workers staged sit-downs on some platforms in an attempt to secure better conditions . |
| 4 | Major initiatives to secure better value for money . |
| 5 | To secure better value for taxpayers ' money by introducing a new funding structure for social care . |
| 6 | Compact will certainly enable some young people to secure better jobs than they would otherwise have done . |
| 7 | Asked how she felt about reducing the 800-year-old hospital to a shadow of itself , she said her aim was to secure better health care for Londoners . |
| 8 | The predictions co-incided with a survey by the recruitment firm , Manpower , which shows that Scotland — along with the west of England , Yorkshire and Humberside — is one of the few areas where employers expect better job prospects in the spring . |
| 9 | Avoid buying a system that wo n't communicate with a higher resolution output device such as a typesetter if you think you may need better quality . |
| 10 | The money will help poor village farmers , agricultural associations and self-help projects in applying better techniques to get the most produce from the land . |
| 11 | You see , some of your ideas are beginning to rub off on me , and I want to start keeping better records here , as well has have regular weekly clinics instead of just coming up here on a casual basis . ’ |
| 12 | It also believes that if the Church wants better music and musicians , it will have to be prepared to pay more at least for its music leaders . |
| 13 | Concerned that the imposition of VAT on domestic power and light next year will cause hardship , the Consumers ' Association wants better advice to help people reduce bills and conserve energy . |
| 14 | Gregory grey haired , urbane , 45year-old wine buff wants better use of BR land and resources , better communication , fax and vending machines on trains , telephones in every carriage , magazines and newspapers on sale , international currency facilities and much more . |
| 15 | It is not recommended to add more oil to your pigment , as keeping your paint dry and simple will yield better results . |
| 16 | It is not recommended to add more oil to your pigment , as keeping your paint dry and simple will yield better results . |
| 17 | The Commons scrutiny committee proposed better procedures last month for vetting , or resisting , the flow from Brussels and Mr Michael Heseltine has urged the creation of an upper house at Strasbourg — a European senate — drawn from among MPs in national parliaments to bridge the current gap . |
| 18 | The Americans have continued dropping hints about aid , presumably hoping that will buy better behaviour . |
| 19 | It duly noted that extra money would not necessarily buy better health . |
| 20 | They had turned to longer films to attract better audiences and the device of the fiction film not only served to head off the challenge of reformers but also guaranteed an exclusive hold on mass audiences . |
| 21 | But the Government has made it clear that if we want better water , we have to be prepared to pay for it . |
| 22 | If you want better proof , ask the churchmen . |
| 23 | Yet many people do n't actually want desktop publishing in the Macintosh sense , they want better quality word processors which can integrate text and graphics . |
| 24 | They want better safety standards an' better facilities at the pit'ead . |
| 25 | ‘ Yet to come is a Netware client for Unix users that will allow access to Novell Netware LANs — that will be very interesting for users that want better integration between PC LANs and mission critical Unix applications . ’ |
| 26 | The Conservatives want better community policing . |
| 27 | Dodson & Wexlar ( 1979 ) provided better documentation in their comparison between the bones from different owl pellet assemblages . |
| 28 | A sophisticated statistical evaluation suggested that in the late fifties and early sixties the plan provided better pictures of the evolution of the economy than would have been derived simply by extrapolating past trends . |
| 29 | The new third team also augured well by winning the West Riding Cup and joining the Yorkshire Midweek competition , a move that provided better training grounds for the young players . |
| 30 | If you begin to apply some of these techniques to your studies and make them part of your habits of thought , you 'll find it much easier to solve problems , to write better essays and to produce higher-scoring examination answers . |