Example sentences of "n't have [vb pp] a better [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance .
2 Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation .
3 In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation .
4 The Latics could n't have had a better boost than Saturday 's four-goal demolition of Middlesbrough and Royle said : ‘ That was our best show this season .
5 Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole .
6 The kidnappers could n't have chosen a better day .
7 And they could n't have chosen a better day ; brilliant blue skies and fierce winds .
8 If Rune had set out deliberately to enrage her he could n't have chosen a better way .
9 They were ripe for change , and , as it happened , I could n't have chosen a better subject with which to widen the scope of the Church 's activities .
10 ‘ But I could n't have chosen a better house than this flat . ’
11 SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season .
12 The Harlequin man could n't have provided a better distraction .
13 He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter .
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