Example sentences of "have [verb] a better [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 2 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 3 | It seemed that Smith has got a better image than the present chancellor has n't he ? |
| 4 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 5 | She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance . |
| 6 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 7 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 8 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 9 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 10 | The Latics could n't have had a better boost than Saturday 's four-goal demolition of Middlesbrough and Royle said : ‘ That was our best show this season . |
| 11 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 12 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 13 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ But I could n't have chosen a better house than this flat . ’ |
| 15 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 16 | Britain 's National Audit Office last year concluded that book-building for BT-2 had yielded a better price than underwriting would have done . |
| 17 | ‘ Mary , dear , one night when I have made a better meal than I did tonight , I plan to go a little berserk , too , in order to have your solace . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We have learned many lessons since our game against New Zealand in August and have become a better team because we have travelled and toured as a squad . |