Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 5 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 6 | John could hardly have found a better influence . |
| 7 | Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Oliver said : ‘ A real professional would probably have used a finer cord . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Samples with relatively unstressful lives would probably fail to show a higher rate of depression among those with early loss . |
| 13 | People might also start to make a freer kind of music . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mimi Rogers fill up the background prettily enough , but director Roger Donaldson could really have used a sharper script |
| 17 | They fear that bankers may now reckon to get a better return by selling off firms ' assets quickly than by keeping debtors alive . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 22 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |