Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a deep breath and prayed that Ranulf was somewhere where watching this small drama being played out . |
| 2 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 3 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 4 | The men of Ring 's Amusements still worked in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , but the Dynmouth Hards knew better than to engage these men in any form of combat . |
| 5 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 7 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 8 | Well , better than getting half every time , in n it ? |
| 9 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 10 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |
| 11 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 12 | He was mortally disappointed when it was officially declared an accident and there 's nothing he 'd like better than to find some excuse to start ferreting round and upsetting everyone with his ‘ interrogations ’ . ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 14 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 15 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 16 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 17 | It would be it would be better for them than doing all the extensions together cos doing all the extension booklets |
| 18 | Can you eat three Shredded What for breakfast and keep them down while reading these ridiculous clichés ? |
| 19 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 20 | Heat through gently while tossing all the ingredients together . |
| 21 | An indication that many fighters have all but lost any semblance of moral conscience are the frequent violations of the neutrality of medical and humanitarian workers . |
| 22 | And he all but confirmed this was his last match , saying : ‘ I basically feel the same way as I have all year , and although I am not going to announce my retirement , I guess that is it . |
| 23 | ‘ God grant that some editor somewhere is thinking about educating his staff in the need to check stories before rushing into print — an ethic of journalism which seems to have all but disappeared these days , ’ said Bob . |
| 24 | The second is to give the whole section an extended meaning , so as to embrace all persons , born or unknown , who in any way may benefit [ author 's emphasis ] from assets transferred abroad by others … |
| 25 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 26 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 27 | This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance . |
| 28 | Putting this another way , what is the mechanism whereby we " create … the patterns of … linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time [ we wish ] to be identified " ? |
| 29 | Here a transfer price of £50 has been set so as to give each division some of the profit . |
| 30 | This would mean an amendment of Further Education Grant Regulations ‘ so as to give less prominence to the length of course as compared with other and equally important criteria ’ such as the quality of teaching and the amount of written work done by students ( Recommendation 10 ) . |