Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 2 | ‘ Better than singing boastful tunes like ‘ Rule Britannia ’ as though you Brits were n't beaten hollow by us poor rebels , ’ was her riposte to that . |
| 3 | The men of Ring 's Amusements still worked in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , but the Dynmouth Hards knew better than to engage these men in any form of combat . |
| 4 | If you want the whole rumbustious , arrogant , self-satisfied , smug , righteous , courageous , opinionated , dedicated , class-ridden , adventure-seeking , patriotic life of an era in full technicolour , you can do no better than collect Victorian bindings . |
| 5 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 6 | We can do better than taking simple means of three , however . |
| 7 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |
| 8 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 9 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 11 | five or ten minutes late , it 's cheaper for me to put ten P in than to pay twelve pound ticket |
| 12 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 13 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 14 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 15 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 16 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 17 | Wear a helmet , especially if using fast roads . |
| 18 | Wear a helmet , especially if using fast roads . |
| 19 | Wear a helmet , especially if using fast roads . |
| 20 | On Sept. 20 , 1989 , Pierre Bérégovoy , Minister of State for Economy , Finance and Budget , announced a 1990 budget designed to keep inflation down while sustaining economic growth . |
| 21 | The crash happened on March 14 when the helicopter went down while transporting 15 men from Shell 's Cormorant Alpha platform to an accommodation barge . |
| 22 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 23 | They fitted it in while doing normal training on Jaguars and Harriers . |
| 24 | Their best-known spokespeople were removed and replaced abruptly , without explanation , with new ones who smiled constantly while issuing contradictory statements and random exhortations . |
| 25 | The material takes the form of supported self-study packages , so a student can work through most of the material alone while maintaining regular contact with a tutor . |
| 26 | An indication that many fighters have all but lost any semblance of moral conscience are the frequent violations of the neutrality of medical and humanitarian workers . |
| 27 | Those accusations are always made by the same people who have all but destroyed public support for the local authority concept because of their blindness to the requirements of good financial management within local authorities . |
| 28 | Others , like the now all but vanished Saxon cathedral in North Elmham in Norfolk , are the subjects of academic papers by the staff of the Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings division of the Department of the Environment . |
| 29 | ‘ God grant that some editor somewhere is thinking about educating his staff in the need to check stories before rushing into print — an ethic of journalism which seems to have all but disappeared these days , ’ said Bob . |
| 30 | Write about some features of presentation which are used to achieve identifiable purposes , such as to inform , to regulate , to reassure or to persuade , in non-literary and media texts , showing some ability to form a considered opinion — eg when comparing two reports of the same event . |