Example sentences of "[prep] a better " in BNC.
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| 1 | TIE Rack , whose expansion into America has been described as ‘ attempted suicide ’ by chairman Roy Bishko , is aiming to break even in its American shops ‘ in a couple of years ’ after a better performance in the year to February . |
| 2 | The women are the vessels of a better spirit ; the injury to them is greater , and it is their own men who are responsible for some of that injury . |
| 3 | In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses . |
| 4 | So we can put some limits on the project : the chairs must be upholstered ; modern in the simplicity of their lines but not ‘ Cubist ’ for want of a better term ; easy on the eye and bottom ; they should fit in with other existing furniture ; and naturally should be of strong construction so that they will be heirloom quality . |
| 5 | Everywhere today expectations of a better world are running high , excited primarily by Mrs Thatcher 's friend Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 6 | If we could think of a better system we would introduce it . |
| 7 | If you are feeling — for lack of a better word -thirsty , let's meet again next month . |
| 8 | Mr Major ranged beyond the EC and spoke of a feeling in the air of a better Europe to be built . |
| 9 | The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock . |
| 10 | After the First World War — the war to end all wars — hopes of a better world had rested upon the creation of the League of Nations , headed by the United States . |
| 11 | The pure ewes ' milk cheese is of a better flavour than the cheaper mixed milk version and it also has a very dry texture . |
| 12 | Consequently , for lack of a better alternative , the car has become the favoured means of personal expression , or as an Autobacs Seven director , Kenzo Kido , puts it , ‘ the equivalent of life space . |
| 13 | Among the supporters of what can be called , for want of a better term , the democrats are three important groups . |
| 14 | If the old fool does n't die soon enough , or they get the chance of a better deal , it usually ends in divorce. , |
| 15 | She felt , in her new severity ( for want of a better word ) only half alive , she knew she wanted the old enthusiasms and passions and expectations to course through her and arouse her . |
| 16 | And what dreams of a better tomorrow could these victims of the Communist jackboot have dreamt after a reading of Reed 's celebration of sado-masochism , Venus in Furs ? |
| 17 | It had the added refinement of being fully automatic — still uncommon with diesels — and it was difficult to think of a better car for relaxed and economical touring . |
| 18 | The city also holds out the hope of a better education for the migrants ' children , urban facilities , modern consumer goods and a variety of cheap diversions . |
| 19 | Goodness knows why girls continue to forsake the countryside , in the hope of a better life in the cities , but they do . |
| 20 | ‘ Can you think of a better ? ’ |
| 21 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 22 | The main point about this category — for lack of a better word we shall call it ‘ under class ' ’ — is that its destiny is perceived as hopeless ' ( Dahrendorf , 1985 , pp. 101–7 ) . |
| 23 | Can you think of a better way to boost circulation ? |
| 24 | Nearby is the Trent and Mersey Canal , of which Josiah Wedgwood ( q.v. ) was one of the promoters , realizing the value of a better transport system between his factories and the docks at Liverpool . |
| 25 | But the very thoroughness with which British industry had been converted to war work , the degree to which overseas investment had been sold to pay for the war effort , and the war-weariness accumulated over six years of privation created a twin dilemma : public expectations of a better post-war world had increased in reverse proportion to the capacity of the British economy to finance it . |
| 26 | Beyond the slump must be the perspective of a better society . ’ |
| 27 | Yet even then Mr Averell thought that there was the dawn of a better day and that many more would hear and obey the Divine call . |
| 28 | He told Matron of a better plan for evacuating any child from our area , from what he so rightly expected would be one of the worst winters we have ever had . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you mind if I have a look over the garden , ’ Yanto called after him , unable to think of a better excuse . |
| 30 | Now , hands are , well , handed for want of a better word . |