Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could no more return to that house alone than face the devil . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 3 | The change did not mean that the new recruits to Parliament were any less committed to socialism : indeed , many of them probably understood its teachings even better than had the bulk of MPs of the pre-war era . |
| 4 | However he knew better than to put the thought into words . |
| 5 | Tribe knew better than to join the attack , unarmed and gunless . |
| 6 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 7 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 8 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 9 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 10 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 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 | A variety of wording is used and it is difficult to be certain how such clauses will be interpreted ; but the change in judicial attitudes just noted would suggest that they will fare better than did the clause in Anisminic . |
| 13 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 14 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 15 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
| 16 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was better than walking , better than fighting the tangle of woodland , but whether it was better than lying in the clearing , I could n't decide . |
| 19 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 21 | Landgrebe , only the second graduate employed by the company , had taken over Peter Revers ' job when the latter went to New York and had responsibilities for scheduling and managing shops , but knew better than to express an opinion on artistic matters . |
| 22 | And you will charge to my account annually until cancelled the subscription price — currently £14.70 . |
| 23 | But , when you do check , make certain that you have maintained straight and level flight just previously , and that you continue to do so if re-setting the DI . |
| 24 | right so if press the letter Q to quit from the data processing environment and press the return key , head towards the action menu , right , when you are in the action menu , go to option two , which is the estimate option , right , and you should then be given a dialog box . |
| 25 | So if increasing the speed of a computer 's components is limited by the speed of light , how will one ever build increasingly faster computers ? |
| 26 | The function room , especially if granted a music , singing and dancing licence , could lead to late night activity to the detriment of neighbouring residents . |
| 27 | A function room , especially if granted a licence for music , singing and dancing could lead to late night activity and noise to the detriment of neighbouring residents . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) Where the interest … is not pecuniary , and is neither substantial nor calculated to cause bias in the mind of the judge , it will be disregarded , especially if to disqualify the judge would be productive of grave public inconvenience : Wildridge v. Anderson ( 1897 ) 25 R. ( J. ) 27 , Lord Moncreiff at p.34 . |
| 29 | Tizard ( 1977 ) , whilst rightly arguing that new families need to be totally in control of the way they bring up their adopted children , is also prepared to concede that ‘ just as there are some couples willing to adopt handicapped children , others , especially if given the support of other adoptive parents , may be willing to adopt children who retain links with their natural families ’ . |
| 30 | In the clinical area , learners develop their practical and social skills , but at the same time develop a full sense of responsibility , especially if given the guidance and support they need to become safe and competent practitioners . |