Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a complete account we should perhaps have to add further criteria . |
| 2 | Schools must calculate the ‘ True cost ’ of letting facilities which will probably reflect an increase in charges , but will generally want to have better facilities and community involvement to attract recruitment . |
| 3 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 4 | This will usually mean encouraging greater leverage to allow the work to be performed profitably . |
| 5 | Were a seller to accept such an indemnity he would probably want to add further clauses requiring the buyer to give prompt notification of such claims , to permit him to take over conduct of the claim , not to admit liability , and to render him any necessary assistance in contesting the claim . |
| 6 | If you would also like to play better golf then send for his brochure . |
| 7 | The Royalist Roman Catholic French would probably have made better conquerors of Ireland , if Ireland had to be reconquered once more . |
| 8 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 9 | Such relative uniformity may also have given greater cohesion to the Angevin Empire , for its major towns from Rouen to La Rochelle and Bayonne shared the Etablissements . |
| 10 | In these countries , producers of non-traded goods would also tend to get lower wages than their counterparts in more productive economies . |
| 11 | The prospect for the future is that a modernising Soviet economy might even prefer to buy better quality equipment from elsewhere . |
| 12 | Faced with an audience which included Dikaiopolis , the main character in Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( see lines 1ff. ) , farting and grumbling as he watched the Spartan ; put a match to the combustible parts of Attica , a speaker might well need to invent cruder techniques . |
| 13 | Retrospectively , therefore , some Minors might well have become later candidates for Major status . |
| 14 | Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today . |
| 15 | Had he survived , the old chap would surely have found better ways to fritter this weekend . |
| 16 | Its A-minus rating has been put on probation , out of fear of ballooning deficits ; it might indeed have met sterner treatment had 1989 not been a mayoral election year . |
| 17 | The investment of industrial research in this area will undoubtedly continue to uncover further surprises . |
| 18 | Later , a second change permitted these tax benefits to be offset against income that would otherwise have attracted higher rates of tax . |
| 19 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |
| 20 | Sole traders have to compete with retail multiples ( see below ) who buy in bulk and can therefore afford to offer lower prices |