Example sentences of "was better than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that her stomach no longer turned over when he looked at her came as a surprise and disappointment — even unrequited love was better than no love at all . |
| 2 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 3 | Brian was so thoroughly weak that marriage to Evelyn , dire as it was , was better than no framework to his life , since his working-class parents were children of a lesser god . |
| 4 | A father who loved you was better than no father at all . ’ |
| 5 | In the event , Mark surprised his wife by taking the view that a baby 50% genetically created by Wendy was better than no baby at all . |
| 6 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
| 7 | This was better than the label on the bottle of Camp coffee . |
| 8 | Had Peter implied , or worse even , said , that Anna had rushed impetuously to take a job in a supermarket because anything was better than the prospect of an unchanged status quo ? |
| 9 | This was better than the book of the same name . |
| 10 | It was better than an analgesic in her blood . |