Example sentences of "do [adv] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you did n't do so when using the configuration file for the database creation , you should now update the header for the configuration file adding a new modification record with a development code , and scan both the configuration file and the package module until you get no errors . |
| 2 | Before she could ask whom he intended to marry this time he said , ‘ After you left and I had that final bust-up with Marc I rang Marianne and told her she could do better than marry a penniless school-kid . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think you can do better than follow the great masters , even if you ca n't hope to emulate them . |
| 4 | 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 ) : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But rather to join in the search for new ways forward for the common future of our society and I suggest you might do worse than try a few committees and working groups on pragmatic coalitions , collaborative democracy and local community . |
| 8 | You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists ' book . |
| 9 | Since anthropology is so much involved with recreating alien belief-worlds , with all the varied and competing value-systems that exist in other cultures , just as in our own , literary critics who would wish to acquire more flexibility in dealing with that collision of view-points which forms the basic experience of drama could do worse than to consult the anthropologists . |
| 10 | Those looking for a rank outsider at rewarding odds may do worse than invest a little each-way on New Halen , who was still in contention when unseating his rider a mile from home last year . |
| 11 | The Unix community , many of whom own a piece of USL , could do worse than promote a of church/state relationship between USL ( as Unix mentor ) and the practitioners of statecraft ( Unix providers ) who are also believers . |
| 12 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 13 | IF JEFFREY Archer were looking for a plot for his next novel , he could do worse than examine the rise and rise of Mr John Major 's first female Cabinet ministers , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Mrs Gillian Shephard . |
| 14 | Agencies that dream up advertisements to go in magazines could do worse than read the publications first |
| 15 | And if in places it reads tendentiously or relies overmuch on rhetoric , it could hardly do otherwise than echo the tendentiousness and rhetoric of the terms of reference themselves . |