Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [been] [adv] advised " in BNC.

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1	While the election of Paisley was a major blow to the credibility of Chichester-Clark , who might have been better advised to save face by not becoming personally involved in opposing Paisley , William Beattie 's victory in South Antrim was probably more damaging in that Beattie was far less well known , was standing in a more cosmopolitan constituency , and was competing against a man who had previously been a cabinet minister .
2	Family tradition attracted many Scots into the army who might have been better advised to look elsewhere , but in time of war there was always the hope that disease or wounds would carry off enough military superiors to create vacancies without purchase and permit advancement in rank .
3	The right hon. Gentleman might have been better advised to raise that matter at a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party than inviting me to answer it .
4	Probably Anselm would have been well advised to comply .
5	He would have been well advised not to drag the name of my hon. and learned Friend through the courts and an undiscriminating press .
6	He would have been well advised not to compel — because he did compel — his own lawyers to regard what he said about my hon. and learned Friend as part of his case .
7	It seemed it would have been ill advised to follow the PARIS II route — costs would have been astronomical and timescales unrealistic .
8	In fact , if — 4.6 billion years ago — one had to place a bet on which planet in the Solar System would sustain life , one would have been best advised to put money on one of the gas giants .
9	I believe that the secretary of state would have been better advised to market the acceptability of genitourinary medicine clinics rather than to promote a facility that could impair the health of the nation .
10	The defendant would have been better advised to display his notice in a prominent position near the reception desk .

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