Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] no [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 9 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 10 | So he could do no worse than consider Tony Cottee , unwanted by Everton , Tranmere 's John Aldridge or Clive Allen of West Ham . |
| 11 | But like Tron , it could go no further than creating a transparently synthetic world . |
| 12 | Louts who could go no further than ill-thought-out violence on street corners . |
| 13 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
| 14 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Skin brushing need take no longer than five minutes each time and can be done while you run the bath . |
| 17 | You avoid the airport crushes and delays and the interminable transfers driving need take no longer than flying in many cases . |
| 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 | Anyone looking for an exotic finish to a room need go no further than Ravissant . |
| 21 | To find out how it affects Scottish farmers one need go no further than my constituency . |
| 22 | Woodward saw that Duncan would go no farther until he had a satisfactory explanation . |
| 23 | For many tasks they will need no longer than two or three minutes , and frequently as little as 30 seconds . |
| 24 | In the nature of things , much of this feedback will go no further than the local office , but senior bureaucrats are much involved in the preparation of new policies for politicians and it would be strange indeed if such feedback never featured in new recommendations . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It will last no longer than you can bear . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In our view , we can do no better than quote from Sahlin 's direct attack on sociobiology : |