Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 2 | And so Bickers moved on to form Levitation , and into his shoes stepped Simon Walker , just long enough to tour extensively and to record the latest album before he , too , split . |
| 3 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 4 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 5 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
| 6 | It was an order , a decree that had to be obeyed , and the woman obviously knew better than to argue . |
| 7 | Such a person is detached enough to think clearly and to advise without bias . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In either case the human intervention must be a very high level one based on complex diagnosis and innovative design-type thinking about how best to cope so as to avoid a catastrophe . |
| 10 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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directors does not become functus officio on the appointment of a receiver but the directors ' powers are substantially superseded since they can not act so as to interfere with the discharge by the receiver of his responsibilities and accordingly their powers are suspended ‘ so far as is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 . ’ |
| 13 | It is generally accepted now that to speak of self-sufficiency in the face of such quantities of material is absurd . |
| 14 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects . |
| 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 | This is not interpreted so as to compel a solicitor in overseas practice to maintain cover in excess of the current levels prescribed by the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules , though local requirements may have that result . |
| 19 | But jobs were hard to find and he decided not to resign then but to wait a few weeks until he found another job . |
| 20 | A policeman 's job is made more difficult if a person physically obtrudes so as to prevent the policeman from arresting a third person , and it has been held that such conduct constitutes obstruction . |
| 21 | The provisions of paragraphs ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) above shall not apply so as to make it unlawful for a motor vehicle to be fitted with an instrument or apparatus other than a two-tone horn designed to emit a sound for the purpose of informing members of the public that goods are on the vehicle for sale . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) . |
| 23 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 24 | I will not go further than to say ’ around 40 ’ , but we certainly intend to implement the programme that we set out in ’ Options for Change ’ . |
| 25 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |
| 26 | If so , the Directive will normally operate so as to transfer the employees employed by the former controller in the discharge of the function to the new controller and on the same terms and conditions of employment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The therapeutic centre may be used typically to observe and monitor families which are not functioning well and to teach adequate parenting skills where these are lacking . |
| 30 | For a century or more both Parliament and the courts have been careful not to act so as to cause conflict between them . |