Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In particular , the real wage will adjust spontaneously so as to prevent the emergence of excess supply in the labour market . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In particularly weak cases the conciliation officer will go so far as to advise the applicant to withdraw the claim . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |