Example sentences of "we [vb mod] do better [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 2 | Cos now we do n't have to pay interest on our fees , i if , if , if a jam 's spread over six months a a a and it might risk and slip to nine months , we might do better to offer to jam spread it over nine months and only invoice for part of the money . |
| 3 | Since this formulation of determinism can not help us , perhaps we shall do better to concentrate , as a number of theorists have done , on a different one : the claim that every event has a cause . |
| 4 | We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive . |
| 5 | We would do better to accept that we can not say precisely how much of the book dates from this last stage , although there were , no doubt , changes of various kinds , including deletions . |
| 6 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |
| 7 | We would do better to adopt a direct approach and tackle the problem at its source by attempting to reduce the risk of police mistakes in the first place . |
| 8 | ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 6 ) We will do better to consider the objection that science does not in fact involve or make use of a conception of causal and other nomic connection . |