Example sentences of "not [verb] a better " in BNC.

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1 One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production .
2 How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory .
3 Because here you have an opportunity to go launch yourself onto a self employed erm platform and can not provide a better platform for that and I would say that would n't I he 's thinking .
4 You will not see a better performance than this all year .
5 Manager Lennie Lawrence saluted Stuart Ripley 's ‘ wonder ’ goal : ‘ If you watch Sky Television , and watch Italian football , you will not see a better goal than that .
6 His clubmate , Craig Chalmers , has maybe not played a better all-round international since New Zealand in 1990 .
7 Built in 1540 , these lovely red-brick stables have been loaned to the Horse Rangers by grace and favour since 1964 , and could not have a better tenant than this exclusive voluntary organisation — exclusive that is to children who do not have their own horses and ponies .
8 If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’
9 It promises to be a very close encounter , but North will not have a better chance to redress the balance against the runaway Ulster League winners .
10 But it 's a pity she did not have a better showcase for her talents .
11 Before taking this as a general licence for an active industrial policy to manage change , governments must ask why the market is not doing a better job , and whether intervention can itself improve on the existing situation .
12 Punishing someone for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern .
13 ‘ And you will not get a better service for some long time to come , ’ he said on BBC radio .
14 We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir .
15 Even in the first century A.D. the author of the Periplus maris Erythraei can not find a better accomplishment for a king of Ethiopia — to counterbalance his notorious greed for money — than his knowledge of Greek .
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