Example sentences of "[noun] could do no " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 2 | This was another Quaker , John Fothergill ( 1712–1780 ) , who wrote to Linnaeus in 1774 : ‘ Our Collinson taught me to love flowers and who that shared his comradeship could do no other than cultivate plants ’ . |
| 3 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 4 | Hedonists seeking the perfect golfing weekend could do no better than tackle these two majestic courses , using the Thorpeness Club Hotel as a base . |
| 5 | Even Bell could do no better . |
| 6 | They talked a while longer but Doris Clay could do no better . |