Example sentences of "[modal v] not have [vb pp] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
2 | I could not have imagined a better companion . |
3 | Tim could not have made a better choice . ’ |
4 | As confirmation of the significance Harry had detected in Heather 's photographs , Mossop 's retraced route of three months before could not have made a better start . |
5 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
6 | He could not have made a finer creature in his own vats . |
7 | Sheila could not have desired a worse profession . |
8 | Hollywood could not have created a better image of the middle ages . |
9 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
10 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
11 | GRAEME HICK finally lived up to his tag as England 's saviour yesterday — and the one-time ‘ Boy Wonder ’ could not have chosen a better moment to put his wretched Test record behind him . |
12 | We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks . |
13 | The 39-year-old Briton could not have got a better start to his new career with the Indycar team owned by Paul Newman and Carl Haas , but now has every driver on his tail . |
14 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
15 | QUEEN OF SHANNON had tears and not champagne flowing by winning at Salisbury yesterday — but she could not have picked a better moment . |
16 | If he were going to humiliate her , he could not have picked a better opportunity . |
17 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
18 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
19 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
20 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
21 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |
22 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |