Example sentences of "[be] [art] good [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |
| 4 | They took trouble to make sure our rooms in the hotel were the best and the result was that this was a very happy film to make . |
| 5 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 6 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |
| 7 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 8 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation . |
| 10 | No but I mean it 's it 's no better than the seaside I mean . |
| 11 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 15 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 16 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
| 17 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |