Example sentences of "should [verb] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 2 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 3 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 4 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 6 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 7 | The EEC should decide soon whether to raise the prices , and help Philips sell more European players . |
| 8 | In the longer term they should go so as to create a real ‘ Europe without frontiers ’ . |
| 9 | Therefore , as the firm takes on more of the cheaper form of financing , debt , the cost of equity should rise so as to offset the advantage and maintain a constant cost of capital regardless of the debt — equity ratio . |