Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A concentration may occur in one of two ways : first , two or more parties that were previously independent may merge so as to become one new independent business or secondly , one or more persons who already control one business may acquire direct or indirect control of another business . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 4 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 5 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 6 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 9 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 10 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 11 | Unlike a winding-up , the board of directors does not become functus officio on the appointment of a receiver but the directors ' powers are substantially superseded since they can not act so as to interfere with the discharge by the receiver of his responsibilities and accordingly their powers are suspended ‘ so far as is requisite to enable a receiver to discharge his functions . ’ |
| 12 | The idea that some form of market will act so as to restrain corporate managers from abusing their discretion by failing to serve the interests of the shareholders is flawed in two ways . |
| 13 | Although it is argued that the total value of the firm will remain constant , it is shown that this will be so because the price of equity will fall so as to offset the impact of using debt . |
| 14 | Jack Maurice of the Institute 's Ethics Committee also warned that , although Channel 7 may not be ethically improper , practitioners should ‘ consider carefully whether to spend money on it ’ . |
| 15 | The DRA 's objective is to see the technology succeed rather than to generate short term income — and Robertson believes the chances are high . |
| 16 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 17 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 18 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since anthropology is so much involved with recreating alien belief-worlds , with all the varied and competing value-systems that exist in other cultures , just as in our own , literary critics who would wish to acquire more flexibility in dealing with that collision of view-points which forms the basic experience of drama could do worse than to consult the anthropologists . |
| 21 | The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration . |
| 22 | If we really wanted to find out whether the unwesternised Wolof were capable of expressing different points of view , we could do worse than to look for instance at their political activities and see whether , in factional disputes , the lobbying that takes place indicates such an awareness . |
| 23 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 24 | Some authorities require a restriction on the number of weeks a buyer may purchase so as to avoid the possibility of permanent use by a single owner . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's nothing I 'd like better than to stay here and make love to you all day , but I think after breakfast we should get back to the palazzo . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 27 | One or both of them ( almost always , as stimulus increases , both ) will move so as to slide the penis in and out of the vagina , causing frictional stimulation of the sensitive organs . |
| 28 | His challengers — and especially Rudolph Giuliani , the Republican front-runner — must decide soon whether to try grabbing the issue as their own . |
| 29 | The EEC should decide soon whether to raise the prices , and help Philips sell more European players . |
| 30 | You can decide later whether to let it out or try and lose some weight . |