Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 3 | All right for Jazz , cap or not , for his dark body had a natural grace and he could swim far better than anyone had suspected . |
| 4 | ‘ If we could get some discounts an' look at what we 're buyin' I fink we could do even better than we 're doin' now . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 7 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |
| 8 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 9 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 12 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 13 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 14 | Even if a business was very efficient , he said , it was difficult to generate gross margins of more than 28% , whereas an efficient company in the fast-growing network market could do much better than that . |
| 15 | It was her first Party conference , and she was certain she could do far better than them . |
| 16 | In the short-term it might work as a morale-booster for players to see a fresh face , but in the long-term I do n't think anybody else could do any better than Howard . |
| 17 | Yes , see who I mean I ca n't think of anybody who 's in the reserves who could do any better than the lot that are in , in at the moment . |
| 18 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 19 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 20 | The use of the ‘ Fax Box and Jargon Box ’ is good and the general attempt to imitate the Windows desktop is a good idea but would work much better if less cluttered . |
| 21 | As with all the Fairy Basslets that this species will flourish far better when kept in pairs , individuals often displaying a mere shadow of their potential . |
| 22 | You may be able to ease the tension somewhat by taking a few deep breaths but you will do even better if you are someone who regularly practises some form of relaxation . |
| 23 | An intensive conditioner will work much better if you cover hair with a polythene bag after applying to seal in body heat . |
| 24 | Company exhibitions manager Rob Axon said : ‘ It was built from scratch to our own design and so will prove far better than the old trailer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In our view , we can do no better than quote from Sahlin 's direct attack on sociobiology : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | I can do no better than to quote Thos . |