Example sentences of "do better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 2 | Will do better over longer distances . |
| 3 | Thus , his view on the Government 's education record is : good effort , but must do better . |
| 4 | Sky may do better than most people think , but it will not turn into another Fox , breaking even in its second year . |
| 5 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We could do better , then . |
| 7 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 8 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 9 | On both issues , he suggested , reality had long outstripped British rhetoric and Whitehall would do better bargaining on details than cold-shouldering the whole process . |
| 10 | Six out of ten to the Oxford Stage Company ; could do better . |
| 11 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 12 | With players of the quality of Butragueno , Michel , Martin Vazquez , Sanchis and Chendo available they should do better , but a big improvement is needed if they are going to make an impact in Italy . |
| 13 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 14 | Some birds may do better in that situation and some worse . |
| 15 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 16 | Without a doubt , the Bank can do better . |
| 17 | Britain might do better still . |
| 18 | Private companies have already shown they can do better . |
| 19 | The fear of a ‘ few stern five minutes ’ with his father , who wanted him to leave Battersea Grammar School for the neighbouring public school St. Paul 's , and had arranged for him to have special lessons in Latin verse and in Greek , kept him steadily at school work , although he knew he ‘ could do better at lessons if I wished ’ . |
| 20 | The shadow side of his success was that of failure , watered by the constant accusing refrain that ‘ You are not good enough ; you could do better ; you will never get on if you do n't try ; God will not accept you if you do n't try harder … ‘ |
| 21 | If the human eye can do better , why even try ? |
| 22 | God might have oversight over the destinies of nations , for example , in times of war ; but individuals would do better to rely on their own foresight , and on such pressure on the state as could be exerted by groups organised to sustain collective interests . |
| 23 | Most apples crop on their own , although all will do better with another variety nearby . |
| 24 | He argued that families would do better if their members were altruistic . |
| 25 | You 'd do better teaching them how to cook . |
| 26 | He would do better at Aintree . |
| 27 | Greg Norman has had his chances and failed to take them , but Ian Baker-Finch , the Open champion , or Craig Parry might do better . |
| 28 | They would do better to read the chapter ‘ Developments in Yugoslavia ’ in volume iii of Prof Hinsley 's official history of British intelligence , part one , for a refutation of the claim that Tito did not fight the Germans , supported by copious and conclusive quotations from Ultra |
| 29 | Surely those who retained control over it would do better ? |
| 30 | Young , subordinate females will do better if they mate with a new male . |