Example sentences of "well [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 2 | Mozart 's music will be played throughout the world in 1991 in many bicentenary celebrations , but where better to listen to his operas , chamber music and piano concertos than in Vienna , a city that he described as ‘ the best place in the world for my metier ’ . |
| 3 | Individuals should follow an indirect strategy , guiding their action by one standard in order better to conform to another . |
| 4 | ‘ In that case , would n't you do better to apply to another wharf ? ’ |
| 5 | Better to stick to the direct action and public protests we knew and could control , and leave the inquiry to people like the local authorities . |
| 6 | If we must be so very careful , then , in using what people write about themselves , would we do any better to turn to what other people have to write ? |
| 7 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 8 | Lord Wakeham , who had come with the necessary cheque , had muttered something about boys being boys , and that Robertson would do well to go to his hotel and sleep it off . |
| 9 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |
| 10 | And I think governments would do well to talk to the people at the sharp end , like magistrates , who use this system , work the system , liaise with all the various components in the system and do know what they 're talking about . |
| 11 | Unless a man can put some thematic invention into vers libre , he would perhaps do well to stick to ‘ regular ’ metres , which have certain chances of being musical from their form , and certain other chances of being musical through his failure in fitting the form . |
| 12 | Sir Bryan had done well to play to his handicap , but he could not resist telling everyone what he would have done if he 'd had his James Braid putter . |
| 13 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |