Example sentences of "[adv] than [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 2 | However he knew better than to put the thought into words . |
| 3 | Tribe knew better than to join the attack , unarmed and gunless . |
| 4 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 7 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 15 | As he said in a radio broadcast in 1946 , the Criterion in later years " tended to reflect a particular point of view rather than to illustrate a variety of views on that plane . " |
| 16 | It is , however , likely that the audible beat was intermittent rather than constant , and that it functioned mainly to co-ordinate the chorus and dances on stage , rather than to control the solo singers or instrumentalists . |
| 17 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 18 | Most people do not realize that Jews can pray together without a rabbi , and that the rabbi 's job is often to clarify a point of law or resolve a dispute , rather than to lead a congregation in prayer . |
| 19 | At the launch of Smith 's campaign , it soon became clear that he intends to encourage rather than to lead the debate about the party 's future . |
| 20 | It was a conventional menu but one intended , he felt , to please the guests rather than to demonstrate the ingenuity of the cook . |
| 21 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 22 | US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment . |
| 23 | In all forms of natural therapy , which aim to stimulate rather than to suppress the body 's natural defences , the axiom is : by creating favourable conditions in the whole person , body-mind-spirit , the body will heal itself . |
| 24 | Similarly , the officer 's conception of an emergency is something demanding instant action to correct a problem rather than to apprehend a violator . |
| 25 | the object of the teaching of English should be to develop [ sic ] in pupils the power of thought and expression , and the power of appreciating the content of great literary works , rather than to inculcate a knowledge of grammatical , philological and literary detail . |
| 26 | Except for a brief success for Wilson in London and Southampton , cooks and stewards seem to have been stimulated by his recruiting drive to set up their own organisation rather than to join the NSFU . |
| 27 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 28 | I believe that the secretary of state would have been better advised to market the acceptability of genitourinary medicine clinics rather than to promote a facility that could impair the health of the nation . |
| 29 | As the commission pointed out , despite the sophistication of the British planning system , it was designed to control land use rather than to promote the development of land . |
| 30 | You praise and criticize as appropriate but always authentically rather than to create an effect . |