Example sentences of "have [verb] a better [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities .
2 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 .
3 Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks .
4 The 39-year-old Briton could not have got a better start to his new career with the Indycar team owned by Paul Newman and Carl Haas , but now has every driver on his tail .
5 We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks .
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