Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could no more return to that house alone than face the devil . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 3 | The change did not mean that the new recruits to Parliament were any less committed to socialism : indeed , many of them probably understood its teachings even better than had the bulk of MPs of the pre-war era . |
| 4 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 5 | However he knew better than to put the thought into words . |
| 6 | Tribe knew better than to join the attack , unarmed and gunless . |
| 7 | Carson knew better than to use the Mercedes as in-town transport-traffic and parking problems made a car into a liability during the daytime . |
| 8 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 9 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think you can do better than follow the great masters , even if you ca n't hope to emulate them . |
| 11 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 12 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 13 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 14 | Apart from Ireland it would seem that the smaller European countries have contained the situation better than have the larger ones , but this is an artefact since other small countries such as Belgium , Netherlands and Denmark follow the same trend as the larger countries . |
| 15 | A variety of wording is used and it is difficult to be certain how such clauses will be interpreted ; but the change in judicial attitudes just noted would suggest that they will fare better than did the clause in Anisminic . |
| 16 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
| 17 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 18 | It was better than walking , better than fighting the tangle of woodland , but whether it was better than lying in the clearing , I could n't decide . |
| 19 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 21 | But changes in attitude go a lot deeper than watching the pennies . |
| 22 | In 1987 BTR launched a bid for Pilkington , the world 's leading manufacturer of flat and safety glass , which presented the arguments about conglomerate mergers even more starkly than did the Hanson bid for Imperial . |
| 23 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 24 | Perhaps if colouring the fish does not sell them , this cruelty will stop . |
| 25 | And you will charge to my account annually until cancelled the subscription price — currently £14.70 . |
| 26 | Twenty two , but that 's only cos use the keys |
| 27 | But , when you do check , make certain that you have maintained straight and level flight just previously , and that you continue to do so if re-setting the DI . |
| 28 | But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once . |
| 29 | right so if press the letter Q to quit from the data processing environment and press the return key , head towards the action menu , right , when you are in the action menu , go to option two , which is the estimate option , right , and you should then be given a dialog box . |
| 30 | So if increasing the speed of a computer 's components is limited by the speed of light , how will one ever build increasingly faster computers ? |