Example sentences of "n't do [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were loaded with works which , as Heinz Berggruen says , ‘ Did n't do well because they were n't any good ’ . |
| 2 | I see wi with the additional five hundred last year , I should think you could n't do less than that , could you ? |
| 3 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 4 | Fourteen strategies were submitted For good measure Axelrod added a fifteenth , called Random , which simply played COOPERATE and DEFECT randomly , and served as a kind of baseline ‘ non-strategy ’ : if a strategy ca n't do better than Random , it must be pretty bad . |
| 5 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 6 | If you want special dishes with a difference that still have a sense of occasion and which are both tasty and good for you , then you could n't do better than choosing Tilda Basmati rice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse . |
| 9 | You ca n't do better than that , even in London , can you ? ’ |
| 10 | Sara said that if they could n't do better than last year 's holiday , a caravan in the rain in West Wales , then it was n't worth bothering … |
| 11 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you think that if after seven hundred years of London government , you ca n't do better than this , you ought to leave Ireland to govern itself , and get out with the best grace you may ? ’ |
| 13 | WE have to match that level of performance and we wo n't do so if a player is playing 40 games a season of which half a dozen are representative . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Er there was walking , there was cricket and er billiards , erm street games , things you ca n't do now because of traffic . |
| 16 | I ca n't say , ca n't do more than that . |
| 17 | The weather , and I like entertaining , I could n't do any when I lived with my Mum-in-law … . |
| 18 | And the second servant does n't do quite as well , he erm but he manages to make five talents out of his one talent . |
| 19 | Pity they ca n't do inside as well ! |