Example sentences of "[adv] have made a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim could not have made a better choice . ’ |
| 2 | As confirmation of the significance Harry had detected in Heather 's photographs , Mossop 's retraced route of three months before could not have made a better start . |
| 3 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 4 | He could not have made a finer creature in his own vats . |
| 5 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 6 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 7 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance . |
| 10 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 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 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |