Example sentences of "[be] no good than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is all rather analytical and intellectual ; and if we ourselves can only function on this rational level , our communication with horses will be no better than a tourist who needs a phrase book or dictionary in a foreign country . |
| 2 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 3 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 4 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 5 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 6 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 7 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 8 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |