Example sentences of "well [subord] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 2 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Still if you mind 's made up , I know better than to argue with you . ’ |
| 5 | And Jessamy knew better than to argue with him when he used that particular tone of voice . |
| 6 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 7 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 8 | He knew better than to judge by appearances . |
| 9 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 10 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 12 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 13 | She knew better than to walk around the front of the house . |
| 14 | One of his shakier concerns was an air-taxi service with which he scared the wits out of travellers too innocent to know better than to fly with him . |
| 15 | The Communists became the most active supporters of the war and were able to revive their previous connections on the Left as well as to capitalize on the rapidly increasing resentment against the pre-war Conservative Party . |
| 16 | Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint . |
| 17 | Attempts to reconcile these imbalances , as well as to deal with other rural problems , have formed the basis for the work of a growing number of rural geographers in the field of rural planning . |
| 18 | The investigators have already tested children in primary schools in Peterborough and have had permission to go back to further test these as well as to test in Bedford and Luton . |
| 19 | To do away with the evils of this system , as well as to guard against dangers of fraud and forgery , a Land Registry was established by the Land Transfer Act 1875 , which was amended and extended by the Land Transfer Act 1897 , both Acts being repealed and replaced by the Land Registration Acts 1925–1988 . |
| 20 | Sue also has a few of her own knitting machines on the premises and makes garments to order as well as to sell to the tourists ! |
| 21 | Consequently , it is prohibited to announce separate recruitment and to set up separate lists of successful candidates according to sex as well as to hire from the list of successful candidates of one sex without taking into consideration the higher marks of successful candidates of the other sex . |
| 22 | In addition we have also investigated the ability of the HPV16/18 and HPV6/11 sequences to drive gene expression in both cervical and non-cervical cell types as well as to respond to the over-expression of Oct-1 . |
| 23 | image , as well as to convey by implication a market of the status of the American OTC , toss around American phrases and terms in their sales presentations . |
| 24 | These meetings are intended to act as foci for the exchange of views and information between library staff and users , as well as to assist in library policy making . |
| 25 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 26 | From this pilot study it is hoped to identify some of the characteristic features of the book publishing industry , and different company practices and policies , and to begin to assess their effect on careers , as well as to prepare for a wider study of the industry , with the longer term goal of developing strategies to improve women 's position in publishing . |
| 27 | It is hoped to develop and refine the approach by examining specific corporate behaviour and relationships as well as to contribute to analysis in these industrial sectors for major and selected minor European and US firms . |
| 28 | Accountants Accountants will normally be required to report on any profit or working capital forecasts as well as to advise on the taxation consequences of the offer , accounting for the takeover and the financing of the bid . |
| 29 | The first agreement of its kind to be concluded by the CIS with a former Warsaw Pact country , it provided for the sale of real estate belonging to the former Soviet army in Czechoslovakia and for the use of the proceeds to make good the environmental damage done on those sites as well as to pay for the housing of returning soldiers in Russia . |