Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow . |
| 2 | The craftsmen knew , for instance , the precise critical angle beyond which an elephant-grass roof will begin absorbing rather than rejecting rainwater . |
| 3 | This inherent uncertainty , coupled with the possibility of fines and private actions , could risk inhibiting rather than promoting competition . |
| 4 | That law might have developed so as to recognise a condictio indebiti — an action for the recovery of money on the ground that it was not due . |
| 5 | Still , it is good to know that British boxers can now command as much money for fighting in London as they once would have received only when topping the bill in the United States . |
| 6 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 7 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 8 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 9 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 10 | Carrie would have died rather than say these things but Nick would n't be embarrassed : he could say them without turning a hair ! |
| 11 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 12 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 13 | The government — and Congress , which will finally decide the issue — will also have to weigh up whether to sell the Department of the Interior 's data centre in South Dakota , that distributes Landsat pictures . |
| 14 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 15 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 16 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 17 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 18 | He should have known better than agree to support a magistrate whose hatred of gipsies was so well known . |
| 19 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 20 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 21 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 22 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 23 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 24 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 25 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 26 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 27 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 28 | To his credit , he had never engineered such postings and , in the early part of 1944 , he would rather have gone anywhere than remain in close proximity to Liza Tremayne . |
| 29 | If ‘ the investigation ’ has ceased for the purpose of enabling the Director to question the suspect , then they must equally have ceased so as to terminate all her other powers . |
| 30 | The outstanding inventiveness of Irish literature may be owed in part to a continuing sense of existence in the shadow of an English language and culture which authors may wish to adapt rather than accept . |