Example sentences of "[be] [adv] good than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | And also , you know sometimes he 's prices are much better than the supermarket 's prices . |
| 3 | Well the men tend to come to our meetings and sit in the back now because their they well what in their words they say , Oh they they 're much better than the lodge meetings . |
| 4 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 5 | I know you feel you 're justified , that I 'm little better than a fortune-hunter . |
| 6 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 7 | When Soviet citizens began to question the merits of nuclear energy , they were questioning one of the most basic assumptions of their system : that communism would lead them into the high-tech future , and that the high-tech future would be greatly better than the present . |
| 8 | In spite of the fact that a national land use classification has been produced ( DOE , 1975 ) it is very unlikely that the future will be any better than the present , and that national land use statistics will continue to be ( Dickinson and Shaw , 1978 , 299 ) * Both are discussed more fully in Chapter 2 . |
| 9 | For once , the product had turned out to be even better than the advert . |
| 10 | Telephone message forms are even better than a pad as they prevent you from forgetting to ask relevant questions . |
| 11 | Doctor made it clear that in comparing crossroads with a nursing agency , he was not saying that crossroad were any better than the agency but they were less expensive . |
| 12 | Note that speaker 1 ( aged twelve — preadolescent ) was incorrectly judged to be white by nearly all respondents , but that the black group were slightly better than the white at identifying speaker 5 ( aged sixteen — adolescent ) . |
| 13 | These media were clearly better than the press in helping to combat loneliness and isolation , allegedly more common in the 1970s and 1980s than in the post-war decades , especially among an ageing population . |
| 14 | Although that , the country is still well in the red , the latest deficit , as I mentioned earlier is rather better than the trade gap that was reported in July . |
| 15 | Although having a B classification , it is little better than a country lane , yet , despite some sudden halts and reversings and generally slow progress , is a delight to follow . |
| 16 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 17 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 18 | I tell you something , it 's much better than the operating table ! |
| 19 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 20 | If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition . |
| 21 | It 's a game of two halves : the disk version is much better than the tape , with the addition of management and league option . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud pointed out that a regulator is much better than an ombudsman . |
| 23 | That one conception is somehow better than a second , supposing that that can be made out , is of course not the proposition that it is our conception or one of them . |
| 24 | If you want me to identify a fish , remember that a photo , or a drawing , is usually better than a description — and it is no end of help if you give me a clue as to where the fish comes from , even if it 's only the continent . |
| 25 | We can not prevent old age , but we can be aware of its side effects ; we can prevent over-attached dog relationships — and prevention is always better than a cure . |
| 26 | They complain about the expense , but it is still better than the alternative : ‘ Before , we worked the fields with pure lung power ’ . |
| 27 | The availability of the combined transport operator 's comprehensive insurance is clearly better than a suit against an uninsured , insolvent issuer of a traditional ocean bill of lading . |
| 28 | Lord Jim , for instance inside she 's really better than a house . " |
| 29 | A polite refusal to comment further is far better than a panic reply . |
| 30 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |