Example sentences of "have do better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 2 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 3 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 4 | Here , where I could 've done better , if only I 'd understood , if only he 'd helped me ; if only this , if only that . |
| 5 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 6 | Great news , you might think , for Aunt Agatha , who had begun to fear that , instead of taking young Billy Whizzquid 's advice and putting her savings under the professional management of a unit trust , she would have done better to put them under her mattress . |
| 7 | For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets . |
| 8 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 9 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 10 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 11 | Brandy would not have done better . |
| 12 | Some thought the scandal might have done better , in terms of audience ratings , if the name had not been the leaden ‘ Iran-contra affair ’ but something with panache , cloak-and-dagger stuff . |
| 13 | He would have done better to have let his temper cool . |
| 14 | Maybe Mrs Levine would have done better to have cast her book in the form of a life of Montagu , who was of considerable interest , since , in substance , much of it is . |
| 15 | Walker , playing for the injured Thorstvedt , should have done better with two high centres which allowed Richardson , in the 19th minute , to reduce the arrears and Olney to head the equaliser on the half-hour . |
| 16 | How , it was being asked , could Labour have done better ? |
| 17 | I concede that the Chemical Industries Association could have done better and am grateful for the extra publicity ( Chem . |
| 18 | They therefore adopt a deeply hostile stance towards intellectual developments of the last two hundred years such as Darwinism and Biblical Criticism , when they would have done better to engage with them and even turn them to their advantage . |
| 19 | If you 'd planned to set his mind like glue on wedding you to this Islesman , you could n't have done better . |
| 20 | His explanation is simple : ‘ Of course , I could have done better , but I enjoy the friendship of running and would never run past someone I could help get to the finish , even if I could win the race . ’ |
| 21 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
| 22 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 23 | ‘ Could n't have done better myself . |
| 24 | Conduct a careful post-mortem of your own actions and compile a list of all the things you could have done better . |
| 25 | Even when you succeed in producing desired results , periodically review your own actions and list what you could have done better . |
| 26 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |
| 27 | IBM could not have done better . |
| 28 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 29 | Even Sinclair Lewis could not have done better . |
| 30 | As events turned out , therefore , the management might have done better to realise that there are competing definitions as to what constitutes ‘ efficiency ’ . |