Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 2 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 3 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 4 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 5 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |