Example sentences of "have [verb] a better [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 2 | It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes . |
| 3 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for Teesside travellers . |
| 4 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for passengers with a new timetable shake-up to take effect from May . |
| 5 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 6 | There are earlier Berman recordings of nearly all the pieces in this latest recital ; in no instance is the interpretation all that different ( though he has found a better edition of Funérailles ) and in most it is rather less satisfying . |
| 7 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 8 | By that time , the RECs should have developed a better understanding of the market , and pricing policies to suit . |
| 9 | On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order . |
| 10 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 11 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 12 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 13 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 14 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 15 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 16 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 17 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 18 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 19 | On the other hand , there were steps which de Gaulle might have taken in 1944 – 46 — steps which might have produced a better outcome on the ( to him ) all-important issue of the constitution and might also have bolstered his popularity . |
| 20 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 21 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 22 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 23 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 24 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 25 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 26 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 27 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 28 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 29 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 30 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |