Example sentences of "do better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 2 | Sky may do better than most people think , but it will not turn into another Fox , breaking even in its second year . |
| 3 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 4 | If there is any range of activities in which those who possess great power clearly can do better than most people it is in co-ordinating the activities of many people . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think you can do better than follow the great masters , even if you ca n't hope to emulate them . |
| 6 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
| 7 | Fourteen strategies were submitted For good measure Axelrod added a fifteenth , called Random , which simply played COOPERATE and DEFECT randomly , and served as a kind of baseline ‘ non-strategy ’ : if a strategy ca n't do better than Random , it must be pretty bad . |
| 8 | You can do better than that . ’ |
| 9 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
| 10 | As far as the grades allotted to the candidates are concerned , a conscientious and uninterested student may very well do better than one who is imaginative and perhaps wayward . |
| 11 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 12 | We can do better than taking simple means of three , however . |
| 13 | We really could do better than that and began rehearsing the ‘ Messiah . ’ |
| 14 | To understand the importance of these procedural developments , we can hardly do better than conclude with a comparison : Blackstone 's graphic and dismaying picture of the damage being done in England by entails . |
| 15 | But the paradox is that if both sides were to disarm , they would both do better than by both arming , because each prefers mutual disarmament ( 3 , 3 ) to the arms race ( 2 , 2 ) . |
| 16 | If having encountered , say , the Rite , Petrushka , and Firebird , you wish to make further inroads into Stravinsky 's compositional genius , you could hardly do better than invest in this splendid disc . |
| 17 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 18 | If you want special dishes with a difference that still have a sense of occasion and which are both tasty and good for you , then you could n't do better than choosing Tilda Basmati rice . |
| 19 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 20 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 21 | So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse . |
| 22 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 23 | For true spelling errors ( rather than typographical mistakes ) , a corrector which knows something about pronunciation will do better than one without , because a writer who is unsure of a spelling will probably attempt to spell a word as it sounds ( Mitton , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | You ca n't do better than that , even in London , can you ? ’ |
| 25 | If Anselm with so many claims to respect could not do better than this , there could be no hope except in forgery : this was to be the next step . |
| 26 | Sara said that if they could n't do better than last year 's holiday , a caravan in the rain in West Wales , then it was n't worth bothering … |
| 27 | If people can choose their ‘ partners ’ freely , and if honest types can spot each other in advance , co-operators will be able to interact selectively with each other — and will therefore do better than cheats . |
| 28 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |
| 29 | Even animals can do better than that . |
| 30 | Finally , you have to believe that you can do better than them . |