Example sentences of "[modal v] do [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 2 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 3 | Those who have n't would do well to browse the informative manual — an impressive publication liberally sprinkled with graphic illustrations of the program 's functions and various points to note . |
| 4 | Mr Major would do well to get the bad news out of the way as soon as he can . |
| 5 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 6 | The SEC hopes that by doubling both the statutory fines and prison sentences this will do more to re-adjust the regulatory imbalance which currently favours insider trading . |
| 7 | But in cash-starved rural communities , where every extra pound of meat is a godsend , it can do more to win the active support of local people than any number of anti-poaching patrols . |