Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] [art] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 8 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 9 | In particular , the real wage will adjust spontaneously so as to prevent the emergence of excess supply in the labour market . |
| 10 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 11 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 12 | Erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 13 | Th was it 's a little personal thing w with me , erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life . |
| 17 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 20 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 21 | But like Tron , it could go no further than creating a transparently synthetic world . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 24 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |
| 25 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 26 | 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 . |