Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 2 | Before she could ask whom he intended to marry this time he said , ‘ After you left and I had that final bust-up with Marc I rang Marianne and told her she could do better than marry a penniless school-kid . ’ |
| 3 | She knew better than to take a wanted man near the Welsh gate ; but the castle gate was the one land approach to the town , the eastward and inviolable gate , overshadowed by the bulk of the castle and the strength of its garrison . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think you can do better than follow the great masters , even if you ca n't hope to emulate them . |
| 5 | Apart from Ireland it would seem that the smaller European countries have contained the situation better than have the larger ones , but this is an artefact since other small countries such as Belgium , Netherlands and Denmark follow the same trend as the larger countries . |
| 6 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 7 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |
| 8 | And it does so while providing a perfect fit . |
| 9 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 10 | The falconer had authority and poise , she remained in control of the whole operation , and her attention was with the bird at each second of its flight — all while delivering a running commentary ! |
| 11 | While France hesitated , Britain acted decisively by sending an army to crush Arabi 's men at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 , and imposing what was to be in all but name the British occupation of Egypt . |
| 12 | For Doumen 's six-year-old had already won most of France 's top chasing honours including the big one , the Grand Steeplechase de Paris , and had all but beaten the best of the British at Cheltenham back in March 1991 when only the nose of Garrison Savannah denied him in the Gold Cup . |
| 13 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 14 | It is indicative , too , when a mistle thrush changes his tune , forgets to repeat his challenging spring song and slips down self-consciously into the lower boughs of a larch to all but whisper a softer , lazier , persuasive serenade . |
| 15 | Stephen Gray all but completed the full flight test programme , with four flights in one day , August 14 , of the Fighter Collection 's Mk.XIV , MV293 . |
| 16 | It all but invited every cop-hating drug freak , every aggrieved drugs trafficker from the Bekaa Valley to Los Angeles , every ultra-right , gun-running , Contra-supporting machismo addict , and every thwarted narco-terrorist or Muslim extremist looking for a safe or cheap revenge to ‘ terminate ’ him also . |
| 17 | New wards and accommodation blocks , laboratories and car-parks have all but masked the original building , whilst within it spacious airy wards , huge staircase halls and corridors have been extensively partitioned and bear no resemblance to their original plan . |
| 18 | They all but destroyed the crucial long-term relationship between writer and editor . |
| 19 | Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War . |
| 20 | While composers such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen condemned all manifestations of the museum culture , and Boulez suggested that opera houses should be burned down , the slender supply of new operas was left either to an older , impervious generation or to composers whose attitude to tradition was either complexly ambivalent ( Henze ) or had all but bypassed the modernist lineage ( Britten and Tippett ) . |
| 21 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 22 | A roughly similar pattern , especially as regards the rapid growth in business in the years before 1914 , can be seen everywhere : the unit of the Russian foreign ministry which duplicated papers concerned with relations with the European states , for example , trebled its output in 1893 – 1906 . |
| 23 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 24 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 25 | People with families , sometimes where both partners are working , are very busy people , often talking to each other only when doing a hundred and one other things too . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
| 27 | They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) . |
| 28 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 29 | More significantly , the organisation was now free to manage itself so as to give a better service to patients . |
| 30 | The items were selected so as to give a quick overview of performance in relation to a range of topics including number concepts , measures , spatial concepts , algebra , graphs and number patterns . |