Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 2 | When the initial grief of the desertion had passed she had known better than to mention her father 's name . |
| 3 | Ex-Eton schoolboy Jonathan Barton was bullied but unlike Charles , he knew better than to take his complaint to the headmaster . |
| 4 | He looked from one to the other of their faces but knew better than to open his mouth . |
| 5 | She knew better than to ask her husband what this letter was about however , and awaited his reaction in the reserved , watchful way which she had found safest to adopt in her husband 's presence and which usually concealed more vehement feelings . |
| 6 | I knew far better than to turn my head , but I had the feeling my old builder stayed squatting by the roadside . |
| 7 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 8 | It was predictable whenever he was away from home — the stroll before bed — and they both knew better than to offer their company . |
| 9 | They knew better than to insult their hosts by open mention of this superiority ; such bad manners would disgrace the clan . |
| 10 | Sam knew better than to interrupt her flow . |
| 11 | Funny how with all their computers and name-matching , these people never seem to come up with offers of anything one actually wants : Diners Club France has chosen Cardpac , Sema Group Plc 's software package for managing credit cards , to support a ‘ new commercial strategy and to develop its financial and non-financial services ’ in a contract said to be worth between $1.45m and $1.8m : ‘ We will use Cardpac to follow our clients ’ activity and to construct a database segmented by expenses , in order to understand client profiles better and to adapt our offers to their needs , ’ said Rolf Harff , managing director of Diners Club France . |
| 12 | We are persuading logging companies and governments to manage the logging of rainforests better and to grow their own hardwoods on separate plantations outside the rainforest . |
| 13 | Ask the Lord to guide their steps daily and to enlarge their understanding of his love . |
| 14 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 15 | But at the same time you will make it very beneficial for him to be more obedient , to ask nicely and to control his temper . |
| 16 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 17 | However , such disadvantages could be minimized by elaborating the definition of extreme emotional disturbance so as to clarify its extent and its limitations , and by evolving sentencing guidelines which set out the major determinants of culpability . |
| 18 | Automatic accruer is perhaps more commonly used by professional partnerships ( and has the practical advantage of not being dependent upon compliance with a prescribed timetable ) but there is considerable uncertainty as to whether such an arrangement should be regarded as a binding contract for the sale and purchase of the partnership share so as to take its value outside the scope of business property relief for the purposes of Inheritance Tax ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 19 | There are many ways of categorizing activities so as to ration your time properly . |
| 20 | So it is essential to memorise your line of ascent as far as is possible , piecing together its major features and landmarks , even the times taken for each section , so as to smooth your downward passage . |
| 21 | Some anthropologists ( notably Dickemann 1979 ) have interpreted human societies on the assumption that people act so as to maximise their inclusive fitness ; i.e. that they behave as predicted by kin selection theory , with the added assumption that individuals know , at least approximately , their degree of relatedness to other members of their society . |
| 22 | She can ( and should. ) marry a wife so as to perpetuate her deceased father 's lineage . |
| 23 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 24 | They took issue with the decision of the Venezuelan government to grant CNGSB negotiators refugee status so as to facilitate their departure from Caracas to attend the San José talks . |
| 25 | You must work out your personal pattern so as to suit your individual conditions . |
| 26 | It is at this point that he starts selling his clients out of as much stock as possible , so as to release their capital for the investment propositions he will offer them in his next post . |
| 27 | As Jaq questioned Meh'Lindi yet again so as to compare her impressions with his , a sickening realization about the probable nature of the hydra dawned on him . |
| 28 | That the Christian message is today thus misinterpreted — so as to destroy its envy-neutralising effect — is significant for the modern predicament . |
| 29 | For example , a coastline is a curve whose length ( between any two points ) increases when measured more accurately so as to include its ever-finer convolutions round bays , headlands , cliffs , boulders rocks , pebbles , etc , and on any reasonably simple model the length is infinite . |
| 30 | This is not to say that whatever mystery you have chosen so as to lead your hero or heroine into these successively more and more suspenseful situations will have to be kept entirely hidden from your reader till the last pages . |