Example sentences of "[adv] than [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 2 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 3 | She knew better than to walk around the front of the house . |
| 4 | Families are to be encouraged to live in their own homes rather than to rely on the state ( in the form of local authorities ) for the provision of council housing . |
| 5 | All courses have an underlying philosophy that emphasises the positive value of bilingualism , recognises the importance of anti-racist approaches to curriculum , materials and methods , acknowledges the role that mother tongue may play in learning and draws attention to the fact that bilingual students may have already studied the subject in their own country and need to transfer knowledge rather than to learn from the beginning . |
| 6 | IF you like to feel at one with nature when you are having a tipple , you could do a lot worse than to make for the upstairs bar in the Shaftesbury Inn on Belfast 's Antrim Road . |
| 7 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |