Example sentences of "[adv] have made [art] good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start .
2 When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start .
3 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 " .
4 She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it .
5 Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should .
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