Example sentences of "could [vb infin] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insofar as they intruded on the very different trade in superior goods which Britain and Germany and USA could make better than they could and for which these and other countries had established legitimate mark[et]s and insofar as this intrusion was achieved by methods of subsidy and selling at less than cost it was an illegitimate trade and very disruptive in world trading circles . |
| 2 | ‘ And who could know better than you ? |
| 3 | We really could do better than that and began rehearsing the ‘ Messiah . ’ |
| 4 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 5 | She thought you could do better than that . |
| 6 | I said to Chris I felt we had a bit more money and could do better than that . |
| 7 | He thinks that I could do better than just a clerical job . |
| 8 | Surely they could do better than this ? |
| 9 | I 'd have thought you could do better than that , Miss Holbrook . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 12 | And today the Executive admitted it could do better when it came to grounds maintenance in that area of the city . |
| 13 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 14 | ‘ His school reports always used to say , ‘ Jonathon could do better if he tried . ’ ' |
| 15 | That offer is still open and I think it could work well if people could be bothered . |
| 16 | Later information could score better than the path so far , the estimated score ( extrapolated from the current score ) therefore no longer functions as a reliable upper bound , and so the algorithm is no longer admissible . |
| 17 | ( For Bottome herself says : ‘ No one could write better than Ezra when he was not trying to score off T.S . |
| 18 | ‘ Chrissie could afford better than this . |