Example sentences of "better [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 2 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 3 | Probably better just to take them home , and look at them rather than compile them now . |
| 4 | Better just to leave them |
| 5 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |
| 6 | Better just to praise success and pretend not to notice the setbacks . |
| 7 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 8 | For Eden — and certain other key figures such as Macmillan ( now chancellor of the exchequer ) — this Egyptian coup was immediately seen as an opportunity to humiliate or better still to bring down Nasser . |
| 9 | It is this second Bourdieu that this chapter has explored , or , more accurately , used in order better sociologically to understand modernization , modernism , and post-modernism . |
| 10 | Better far to confront them all , and let them make of it what they would . |
| 11 | Better surely to embrace it in the company of those one has loved , and as one slips away , to know from their tears how much they have loved one too . |
| 12 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 13 | Very nice to be able to step out of used underwear and know it would be laundered and returned to its drawer pressed and scented , even better never to have to worry about clearing a table or washing up , but nevertheless there was something vaguely disconcerting about maids who went silently , sneakily about their duties under her very nose . |
| 14 | Better never to have lived . |
| 15 | Better therefore to try to anticipate such a calamity by assuming the role of an active and vigilant peace-maker . |
| 16 | It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words . |