Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew better than to take a wanted man near the Welsh gate ; but the castle gate was the one land approach to the town , the eastward and inviolable gate , overshadowed by the bulk of the castle and the strength of its garrison . |
| 2 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 3 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 4 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 5 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |
| 6 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 7 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 8 | The right thing is for the two counties to get together and to make a joint decision and , if necessary , to have a public inquiry or to leave it to the Minister to call the scheme in if he is not satisfied . |
| 9 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 10 | A measure actually intended to achieve the unpopular objective of raising revenue so as to remedy a funding deficit may , for example , be linked to and presented as instituting a new and desirable benefit . |
| 11 | Within which , behind which , a multitude of lights lurked faintly , intrinsically bright lights filtered by obsidian and vitrodur so as to resemble a swarm of phosphorescent creatures seen mutedly afar in some great oceanic abysmal valley that was deep and very long and very wide … |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
| 13 | It is generally fitted with an additional diffuser such as a glass cloth scrim , and positioned so as to give a lighting intensity of about one half of that of the key light . |
| 14 | With wealth distributed so as to give a highly distinctive social structure , the Craven District was quite unlike any other part of England . |
| 15 | The items were selected so as to give a quick overview of performance in relation to a range of topics including number concepts , measures , spatial concepts , algebra , graphs and number patterns . |
| 16 | The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances . |
| 17 | Complex statistical multivariate procedures can be used to correlate and group market research data so as to give a statistically accurate identification of : * the size of segment groups and their similarities ; * the differences between the various groupings of attribute sets ; * the relationship of these groups to important consumer , market or product/benefit requirements . |
| 18 | Citizens ' Action and other environmental groups have been pressing for a broadening of the reporting requirements , so as to give a more accurate of pollution levels . |
| 19 | More significantly , the organisation was now free to manage itself so as to give a better service to patients . |
| 20 | persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e . |
| 21 | He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism . |
| 22 | The manipulation of this machine-readable material so as to generate a number of products . |
| 23 | The internalized dialogue that it brings acts on the mind so as to generate a continuing cycle of reflection and intellectual advance . |
| 24 | We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University . |
| 25 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 26 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 27 | If you are in doubt , keeping the puppy on your left side , and facing forwards , loop one end of the chain through the other , so as to form a circle . |
| 28 | It is expected that a draft of the proposed Railway Clearing House submission will have been completed prior to the meeting so as to form a basis for discussion . |
| 29 | He describes his own ( very Darwinian ! ) experiment in which he allowed the stolons of Saxifraga sarmentosa ( a classic ‘ guerrilla ’ growth form ) to encounter an artificial vegetation that he had constructed : ‘ Many long pins were next driven rather close together into the sand , so as to form a crowd in front of … two thin lateral branches ; but these easily wound their way through the crowd . |
| 30 | It therefore becomes imperative that the scriptures be interpreted so as to form a consistent whole . |