Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , we ca n't get away from the fact that if Kemp was in London , he could easily have caught an earlier train . |
| 2 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 3 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 4 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 5 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 6 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 7 | John could hardly have found a better influence . |
| 8 | Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions . |
| 9 | When I told him that I would also like to buy a smaller Popova , he objected , ‘ No , I 'm keeping this because it 's small and it can always be hung anywhere , but these big ones … where can they go ? ’ |
| 10 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 11 | Oliver said : ‘ A real professional would probably have used a finer cord . |
| 12 | The union will also try to provide a better class of men for the Merchant Service , and will see that crews join their ship punctually and in a sober condition ; it will help shipwrecked mariners ; it will provide assistance to members travelling in search of work ; it will establish a sick benefit and a burial fund . |
| 13 | That is why , if the stock exchange had built Taurus many years ago , as promised , it could also have ensured the earlier abolition of stamp duty . |
| 14 | Samples with relatively unstressful lives would probably fail to show a higher rate of depression among those with early loss . |
| 15 | People might also start to make a freer kind of music . |
| 16 | As a statistical association was found between having three or more children at home and the early loss factor , this might also help to explain the lower rate of early loss among treated patients when compared with cases identified in the community . |
| 17 | It also means that you will very often have to use a heavier indicator because of the increased drag imposed on a thicker line in windswept water . |
| 18 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 19 | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mimi Rogers fill up the background prettily enough , but director Roger Donaldson could really have used a sharper script |
| 20 | They fear that bankers may now reckon to get a better return by selling off firms ' assets quickly than by keeping debtors alive . |
| 21 | As , chief executive of Kyle and Lochalsh Enterprise which supported the setting -up of Canan , said : ‘ In areas where the population is ageing , this could well help to keep the younger people there . ’ |
| 22 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 23 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 24 | When you have established the base on which the flowers will be laid you can then start to arrange the larger flowers . |
| 25 | If the calculated starting rate does coincide with a resonant rate the designer can either elect to use a lower frequency clock or try to reduce the resonance with additional damping . |
| 26 | Jobbers often faced one-way markets in which they would either have to buy a greater number of shares than they had sold ( go ‘ long ’ ) or they had bought ( go ‘ short ’ ) . |
| 27 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |
| 28 | It may therefore have had an earlier importance as an alternative main road to Oxford in late Saxon times before the arrival of Woodstock . |
| 29 | This would certainly help to explain the later grouping of the civitates in this area . |