Example sentences of "well [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left alone , often with children to support , former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back . |
| 2 | If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In those days parents did not complain at such authoritarian behaviour — they knew better than argue with Mr. Russ who was a greatly respected member of the community . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was France 's inexplicable failure to do better than draw with Cyprus in Limassol that helped Scotland to qualify for Italia '90 ahead of Michel Platini 's team . |
| 7 | Better than mooning in your room . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Still if you mind 's made up , I know better than to argue with you . ’ |
| 10 | And Jessamy knew better than to argue with him when he used that particular tone of voice . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 13 | So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse . |
| 14 | He knew better than to judge by appearances . |
| 15 | To understand the importance of these procedural developments , we can hardly do better than conclude with a comparison : Blackstone 's graphic and dismaying picture of the damage being done in England by entails . |
| 16 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 17 | It s better than sitting in here every day . |
| 18 | Much better than sitting in pubs with young girls or even drinking with one 's colleagues , the hastily snatched pint of bitter before they caught their trains home to their wives . |
| 19 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 20 | Better than burning in Mrs Parvis 's hot red fires of hell . |
| 21 | According to UBS Phillips & Drew , building societies survived the downturn in the housing market better than expected in 1992 ; the brokers forecast that falls in pre-tax profits will average only 7% . |
| 22 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 23 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 24 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 25 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 26 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 27 | If having encountered , say , the Rite , Petrushka , and Firebird , you wish to make further inroads into Stravinsky 's compositional genius , you could hardly do better than invest in this splendid disc . |
| 28 | Quigley ( 1969 ) did find the Rochester Method ( fingerspelling with lip-reading ) better than the oral method and also better than signing for producing success in English . |
| 29 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |
| 30 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |