Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 2 | Smith said : ‘ I thought Graeme Souness was a bigger man than to come out with that stuff . |
| 3 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 4 | It is better to come away with half a dozen good shots which may be sold to clients , than to finish up with six hundred unsaleable frames which will have no further practical use . |
| 5 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 6 | as if to make up for this , in the fourth year the number of teacher-days shot up to 1,254 , an amount of time exceeded only by courses devoted to specific professional roles . |
| 7 | They may not be sure exactly what career they want , or whether to go on to higher education . |
| 8 | You choose whether to hold on to bitter emotions or to let them go . |
| 9 | Finally , this great natural funnel gave the maelstrom no alternative but to rear up into that great familiar wave . |