Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] no [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 2 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 3 | I can do no better than to quote Thos . |
| 4 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 5 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 6 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 7 | If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help . |
| 8 | However , you will go no further than two miles from the barracks , you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at one minute before nine . |
| 9 | If you want the whole rumbustious , arrogant , self-satisfied , smug , righteous , courageous , opinionated , dedicated , class-ridden , adventure-seeking , patriotic life of an era in full technicolour , you can do no better than collect Victorian bindings . |
| 10 | As we could go no faster than the pace of the slowest man , Marius and I took his rucksack and FA-MAS to lighten his load . |
| 11 | In our view , we can do no better than quote from Sahlin 's direct attack on sociobiology : |
| 12 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 13 | For many tasks they will need no longer than two or three minutes , and frequently as little as 30 seconds . |
| 14 | But like Tron , it could go no further than creating a transparently synthetic world . |
| 15 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
| 16 | If he is interested in what is happening in the European Community , he could do no better than cast his eyes across to France where a socialist Government have just announced that country 's highest-ever unemployment level . |
| 17 | So he could do no worse than consider Tony Cottee , unwanted by Everton , Tranmere 's John Aldridge or Clive Allen of West Ham . |
| 18 | It need take no longer than it takes you to interview a pupil and make a job offer . |
| 19 | When he realised that arriving at The Bar meant he was still only just at the start of his wanderings or journey , he ached some nights to be told that he need go no farther than this . |
| 20 | It will last no longer than you can bear . |
| 21 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 22 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |