Example sentences of "[noun pl] could do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at some of the ornate stucco work on those elegant nineteenth century town houses ; it turns out they are hammers and sickles , ordered by Stalin to show that whatever the capitalists could do , communists could do too . |
| 2 | The architects ' case is that the volume builders could do far more to adapt their products to fast-changing markets than they have wanted , or needed , to do in the past . |
| 3 | Piano duettists who have tired of presenting the Brahms Hungarian Dances or the Op. 39 Waltzes in recitals could do well to make the acquaintance of this work . |
| 4 | Sir , — I believe the following extract from the Sunday Times could do only good if the facts were fully appreciated by the general public : |
| 5 | Asked if the UN-mandated troops could do more to protect aid workers , Mr O'Reilly said : ‘ One can hardly expect a military escort can travel with every possible aid worker in Somalia … |
| 6 | And , after digesting the central message of the session on Changes in Higher Education , delegates could do worse than remember Burke 's warning . |
| 7 | Many businesses could do more to help themselves . |
| 8 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 9 | Agencies that dream up advertisements to go in magazines could do worse than read the publications first |
| 10 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 11 | But those scientists who sought to reconstruct these links could do so without worrying very much about how populations of individual animals adapted to the challenges posed by an ever-changing environment . |
| 12 | But those about to leave the damp and wintry British Isles for sunnier climes could do well to reflect on just two products from one of ICI 's most successful businesses which derive , ultimately , from salt deposits found beneath the Cheshire countryside and the technology used to extract useful materials from it . |
| 13 | Anyone who wants to learn to paint with oils could do far worse than follow the advice of ‘ the fastest knife in the West ’ , Nancy Kominsky , as MIRANDA FELLOWS found out |
| 14 | According to Credit Suisse Asset Management , smaller company shares could do well in 1993 . |