Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [art] better [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You will not see a better performance than this all year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 8 | But it 's a pity she did not have a better showcase for her talents . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Punishing someone for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern . |
| 12 | ‘ And you will not get a better service for some long time to come , ’ he said on BBC radio . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want a better offer , I do n't want any offer ! |
| 16 | If you ca n't , you ca n't so easily if you have n't got a better car . |
| 17 | So we have n't got a better mouse driver . |
| 18 | ‘ He has n't got a better nature , ’ I said despondently . |
| 19 | He says that the Government want to privatise prisons — but this wo n't provide a better service . |
| 20 | The fellow did not seem to understand me , for he simply said again : ‘ You wo n't see a better view in the whole of England . |
| 21 | ‘ If you wish to be an academic in the UK I ca n't see a better place than Bradford . |
| 22 | Hilary could n't have a better coach for GCE Maths . ’ |
| 23 | but of course the main event of the year at Headingley is the Test Match , and say Yorkshire Cricket Club : ‘ You really could n't have a better view than from the comfort of an executive box . ’ |
| 24 | He knows how I feel , me being an only child … he 's a wonderful husband , I could n't have a better husband . |
| 25 | They could n't have a better time to do it . |
| 26 | I do n't want to believe it , but I do n't have a better explanation . |
| 27 | Lucenzo did n't have a better nature . |
| 28 | And the championship could n't have a better launch on Friday morning when Carrickfergus ' Michael McHugh meets Paul Daly of Belmont in the opening U-25 singles semi-final . |
| 29 | I do n't think that , they ca n't put a better offer in can they ? |
| 30 | D' you remember the erm , you ca n't get a better bit of butter on your knife , Country Life butter adverts ? |