Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb base] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) : |
| 3 | Rather than do a keyhole job on Loyd , TODAY asked him to choose his ideal home from the hundreds of celebrity houses he has visited . |
| 4 | Better to have it from someone you know and respect , rather than have a customer complain . |
| 5 | Roosevelt objected to these rules , which limited his powers in foreign policy , but he accepted them rather than have a battle with Congress . |
| 6 | If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee . |
| 7 | Rather than have a set of isolated jigsaw pieces we are now able to start putting them together . ’ |
| 8 | Well I said you 're going towards Hollyhead I 'm going towards North Wales why not en-route let's find somewhere and stop and have a meal there , rather than have a meal in Chorley and have to drive all the way down . |
| 9 | I figured that rather than have a tape and a black and white photo , I would have a CD that would be in colour . |
| 10 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 11 | I bet you 've done a lot worse than chuck a Perk in a canal . ’ |
| 12 | You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists ' book . |
| 13 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 14 | Women and men must be able to care for their family as well as earn a living . |
| 15 | Most people who arrange to work flexible hours do so because they want to spend time with their families , as well as pursue a career . |
| 16 | This was to be the sixth show organised by the Priestfields & Ormesby Knitting Club and this year they were hoping to use the proceeds to boost club funds as well as make a donation to Kirkleatham Special School in Redcar . |
| 17 | Informal research in classrooms has shown that students prefer to see as well as hear a storyteller or lecturer . |
| 18 | She says we are looking for people who can pull a crowd as well as have a bit of fun . |
| 19 | We feel that this is the ideal opportunity for students to study as well as enjoy a holiday visiting new places and meeting new people . |
| 20 | The case studies will be written within a previously defined framework , which will include the definition of common measures of debt bargain and adjustment , provide an analytical context including relevant elements in economic and political science theory as well as suggest a hypothesis to be tested in relation to the differences in the terms obtained by different countries . |