Sentence examples for cannot be better than from inspiring English sources

It can be as good but cannot be better than the Carnot engine, and that's what makes the result important.

At rough surfaces, the measuring uncertainty in principle cannot be better than the surface roughness, which is commonly in the range of 1 micron.

"Things cannot be better than finishing first for my last Friday," enthused Alesi who will be driving in his 201st grand prix.

A limitation of the monopole time reversal (MTR) method, which records and retransmits the monopole field only, is that the spatial resolution of the focus cannot be better than half a wavelength, and therefore it is not suitable for locating low-frequency sound sources.

That is, the service cannot be better than "excellent" or worse than "annoying".

"We cannot be better than first in the League, top of our Champions League group and in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup," he said.

This cannot be better seen than in the action taken by the U.S. Government in reference to the forthcoming Transit of Venus.

T. S. Eliot's tenet of a necessary separation of "the man who suffers and the mind which creates" cannot be better exemplified than by Arbus at that recurrent moment when we as viewers are abandoned to visions overwhelmingly both fierce and tender.

Sir, Further to your report, "Defence cuts leave Britain vulnerable to Russia attack" (News, Jan 22), our government's attitude to defence spending cannot be better illustrated than by the decision by David Cameron, as prime minister, to scrap our maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) force in the 2010 review.

China's current counter-ideology cannot be better said than Li's summary: in China political rights are seen as "privileges to be negotiated based on the needs and conditions of the nation".

And don't assume unrelated fathers cannot be better fathers than the biological father you're seeking, especially since they have been a part of your mother's life.