Example sentences of "be better [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris . |
| 2 | L. DARNFORD : Why , she must be better descended than you have told me ! |
| 3 | ‘ I think that 'll be better answered when we 're alone together . |
| 4 | They also make a specific suggestion that causally connected episodes will be better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 5 | The physical mechanism underlying the proposed link between solar output and cycle length must be better understood before cycle length can be used with confidence as a proxy for irradiance changes . |
| 6 | Hereafter the penicillins were studied in countless laboratories , academic and commercial , and discoveries were made which enabled them to be better understood and used as the foundation for many new drugs . |
| 7 | As a result of this work , it is hoped that the determinants of interwar unemployment will be better understood and that these findings can be related to the results of research on the postwar economy . |
| 8 | However , there is a danger here of what I call the definitional fallacy , that is a tendency to seek to present the law as if everything was completely cut and dried , whereas such ‘ defences ’ may be better understood as ‘ excuses ’ the primary function of which , from a ( negative ) utilitarian point of view , is simply to minimize the amount of punishment actually imposed without jeopardizing the credibility of the general system of threat through which , arguably , criminal law realizes its prescriptive function . |
| 9 | It is difficult to capture accurately the complex patterns of motivation that produce an individual 's actions but I think the position of Paisley , Beattie , Foster , and others can be better understood if we distinguish motivational background and front stage . |
| 10 | It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life . |
| 11 | It will be better understood if this conceptual paper is read against the reports on how this programme is being put into practice in several projects in different parts of the world and being implemented in colloquia and workshops , position papers and formal statements and declarations , in a publication programme consisting of academic studies and more popular magazines and newsletters , not only Media Development , Action and Communication Resource , but also books and periodicals published in different regions . |
| 12 | Would social surveys be better understood if both approaches to data analysis were to be adopted ? |
| 13 | It seems odd that we could get hammered in one game , just win the other and still be better rewarded than with 2 draws . |
| 14 | The dark side of radio politics can not be better illustrated than by Sefton Delmer 's Black Boomerang , an account of the murky world of Britain 's black radio propaganda put out during the war . |
| 15 | The considerable flexibility mentioned earlier could not be better illustrated than through one of John Barker 's much-used parachutes . |
| 16 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 17 | He would be better employed as beadle , or as taskmaster in the Saxburgh Union . ’ |
| 18 | It may seem naive , for some interests will be better served than others in all societies regardless of overt group pressures . |
| 19 | Central administration tends to be heavily bureaucratic and it is interesting to speculate whether the deserving would be better served and the abuses of the modern system better curbed if the administration was returned to more local control . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher finally announced her decision to resign at a Cabinet meeting summoned at the unusually early hour of 9 am the next day , declaring that she had concluded that the unity of the party and the prospects of victory in a general election would be better served if she stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership . |
| 21 | No one realised more than the Queen that her children were deeply flawed and that the monarchy might be better served if that generation was skipped altogether . |
| 22 | Its citizens presumably believed that their interests would be better served if Henry won , for he stood for the preservation of a single sovereign authority ruling in Poitou , England and Normandy , in other words over both ends of La Rochelle 's trade , over wine-growers and wine-drinkers . |
| 23 | But though this may quell doubts about the benefits of the existence of large-scale enterprise , it does not bear on the point that where competition is attenuated a policy of profit maximisation may not be wealth maximising : society might be better served if companies were to lower price and increase output , even though this would be less profitable from the company 's point of view . |
| 24 | There are many examples of how different services should work together and how passengers ' interests would be better served if there were a body to decide whether the bus companies are carrying out their responsibilities . |
| 25 | Even so , it is a question whether the interests of the software houses themselves would be better served if they submitted , perhaps voluntarily , to the unpackaging of their expensive packages ( against payment of a royalty ) . |
| 26 | And what , pray , was The Sun Justice would be better served if there were fewer judges from Brasenose College , Oxford , and more Sun readers from the University of Life on the Bench . ’ |
| 27 | More issues will be debated fully and the Bill will be better scrutinised than many of the measures that have been cited as precedents . |
| 28 | It is a fact of life that a client who spends real money will be better treated than the rabble that does n't . |
| 29 | We welcome the security that the present orders offer to 1994-95 , but would not Harland and Wolff 's future , as well as that of other British shipyards , be better secured if we were to adopt the policy of new build for Britain 's merchant fleet and thus ensure that shipyards throughout the United Kingdom employ our people and that our seamen have jobs to go to ? |
| 30 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |