Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 2 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 3 | Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque . |
| 4 | She knew better than to disobey Julius when he used that particular tone of voice , though . |
| 5 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 6 | They signed a memorandum which read : ‘ I agree that the terms of the late Mr Farrington 's last will be varied so as to give Mrs Violet Peppercorn all of Mr Farrington 's personal chattels together with the freehold bungalow at 27 Washingly Road , Folksworth , of which she is currently tenant ( tax-free ) and to give a tax-free legacy of £5,000 to Mr and Mrs Arthur Peppercorn . |
| 7 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 8 | There is no evidence that the law of the place of incorporation of I.B.C. , Liberia , impinges on these points so as to incapacitate I.B.C. in any relevant way . |
| 9 | Cyril Ramaphosa , president of the National Union of Mineworkers and one of the group who met Mr Mandela on Tuesday , said that after their release the ANC men would demand passports so as to visit ANC leaders abroad for consultations . |
| 10 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 11 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 12 | This court , submits Mr. Richards , with impressive citation from those high authorities , should think long and hard before waiving the appellant 's undertaking merely so as to improve C.N.L. 's position in their libel action . |
| 13 | On appeal by the taxpayers , the Appellate Committee having heard the appeal but before judgment referred it to an enlarged Appellate Committee to determine the question whether the existing exclusionary rule relating to the construction of statutes should be relaxed so as to enable Hansard to be consulted as an aid to construction : — |
| 14 | Widnes 's coach , Doug Laughton , says that the asking price will be ‘ realistic ’ so as to enable Grima to move quickly to a new club . |
| 15 | The decision impugned is a decision by the board of Lautro on 30 October 1990 to exercise its intervention powers so as to prohibit Norwich Union Life Insurance Society ( ‘ Norwich ’ ) and three associated companies from accepting any new investment business from Winchester or from soliciting investment business from the public through Winchester or any of its representatives . |
| 16 | American industrialists , critical of the performance of the occupation , had urged a reversal of policy so as to increase Japan 's capacity to stand on her own feet and not to receive excessive subsidies from the United States . |
| 17 | The House of Lords held that the board alone , and not a committee of the board , could grant special payments to a director so as to bind Guinness . |
| 18 | It was also true that the renewed Triple Alliance of the same year was soon buttressed so as to isolate France and Russia still more . |
| 19 | Acrow Ltd. obtained an injunction to restrain an American company , S.I. , from acting in breach of contract so as to impede Acrow 's manufacture of machinery under licence from S.I.S.I. purported to ignore the injunction and instructed Rex Chainbelt , suppliers of components for Acrow 's process , to cease supply . |
| 20 | Right from the start , the people who dreamed up the reforms made the mistake of including buzz-words — the ‘ internal market ’ and ‘ opted-out ’ are the most glaring examples — which seemed intended to flatter Mrs Thatcher rather than to inform Mr Average . |
| 21 | They acknowledged the stressfulness of the family situation but wanted help toward removing the stresses rather than to have George removed from the home . |
| 22 | By the spring of 1527 , Henry had convinced himself that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was contrary to divine law and canonically invalid , and had resolved to put Catherine aside and to marry Anne Boleyn . |
| 23 | He was married to the prototype of an ideal parson 's wife , a capable and buxom physiotherapist , well able to run her part-time hospital job and the parish simultaneously and to pound Mrs McBride into shape as vigorously as , no doubt , she did her patients . |
| 24 | Dulles on 12 December 1957 went as far as to describe France as " a very weak partner indeed " and one which caused him a lot of anxiety . |
| 25 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 26 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 27 | He even went so far as to imprison Rodrigo 's wife Ximena , and his children ; and though he soon released them he refused to listen to El Cid 's demand to settle his innocence by right of combat . |
| 28 | Garry Bushell , a tabloid journalist , even went as far as to doubt Mr McShane 's status as a ‘ serious sex symbol ’ . |
| 29 | Concerning thunder rites , Harrison even went so far as to quote Durkheim 's ‘ Le sacré , c'est le père du dieu . ’ |
| 30 | Hilaire Belloc , often ambivalent towards the Jewish people , went so far as to condemn Chesterton 's ethnic slurs . |