Example sentences of "[be] [art] good [subord] the [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 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No but I mean it 's it 's no better than the seaside I mean . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |