Example sentences of "[adv] do well [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 5 | 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 . |