Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 2 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 3 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 4 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 5 | If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help . |
| 6 | If he is interested in what is happening in the European Community , he could do no better than cast his eyes across to France where a socialist Government have just announced that country 's highest-ever unemployment level . |
| 7 | So he could do no worse than consider Tony Cottee , unwanted by Everton , Tranmere 's John Aldridge or Clive Allen of West Ham . |
| 8 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 9 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 10 | If you want the whole rumbustious , arrogant , self-satisfied , smug , righteous , courageous , opinionated , dedicated , class-ridden , adventure-seeking , patriotic life of an era in full technicolour , you can do no better than collect Victorian bindings . |
| 11 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 12 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 13 | Thus the parents can reward more often than punish which will offset any of the avoidance side-effects of punishment that the restraint method may create . |