Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 2 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 3 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 4 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 6 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 7 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 8 | In particular , the real wage will adjust spontaneously so as to prevent the emergence of excess supply in the labour market . |
| 9 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 10 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 11 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 12 | I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage . |
| 13 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 14 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 15 | I doubt whether the working party will get any further than recommending the status quo , because I 'm absolutely sure in my own mind , that it is a duty that this council has to support village schools , where the parents support them , and where they 're educationally beneficial , to support them in the village communities , because they are , they have other importance than just education . |
| 16 | A punch should not extend so far as to throw the puncher off balance , nor should a block be carried more than six inches above the head . |