Example sentences of "[was/were] better [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 2 | But at length he began to speak of our improvisations , and how the nights here were better than the days . |
| 3 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 4 | Bad as they were , gelatine glues were better than the alternative , the gums or starch glues which were made by boiling some kind of flour in water . |
| 5 | The Manual English group ( who had parents who were ‘ language competent ’ deaf persons ) were better than the average manual group ( whose deaf parents ' written language was ‘ grossly deviant from standard English ’ ) . |
| 6 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 7 | Pamela considered herself ‘ Solo ’ , playing her own keyboards and singing cover versions of songs that , to Jimmy , were better than the originals . |
| 8 | They were consistently better than The Who , The rolling Stones … fuck it , they were better than the Beatles ! |
| 9 | The first commercial ( nicknamed ‘ Office ’ ) made the key point that our Gold 90 interest rates were better than the three biggest building societies ‘ accounts . |
| 10 | It was no comfortable emotion that pierced the veil , but even pain and fear were better than the emptiness that had preceded them . |
| 11 | They were better than the originals . |
| 12 | I am not criticising the Taiwanese , because they were better than the British . |
| 13 | They were consistently better than The Who , The rolling Stones … fuck it , they were better than the Beatles ! |
| 14 | And the overhead heaters were no use either , I mean that 's why we put the fan heaters in cos they were better than the |
| 15 | Commitment and concentration were better if the bulk of the day 's work was past . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In his view , Baker and the LSG loyally pursued the president 's agenda and it was Reagan himself who decided whether to compromise , and when : ‘ It was Reagan , and Reagan alone , who decided that four fifths of a loaf , especially a loaf that was perhaps too large to begin with , was better than no loaf . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A father who loved you was better than no father at all . ’ |
| 21 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 22 | He was better than a music-hall turn . |
| 23 | Protagonists of seventeenth-century fen drainage pointed out that a fat ox was better than a well-grown eel , and a tame sheep more use than a wild duck . |
| 24 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 25 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Rumours circulating recently suggesting a ‘ super route ’ had been climbed in Twll Mawr ( Dinorwig Quarries ) proved to be untrue , and the chalk spotted on Johnny Dawes ' bold route The Indian Face ( Cloggy ) , still unrepeated , came from an inspection by a local activism , who decided discretion was better than a serious scuffing ! |
| 28 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 29 | And later she had found that his body , scarred as it was , was better than the one which she had imagined for him , as a living and breathing man was better than a marble statue or painting , and her vision had lacked life . |
| 30 | It 's annoying and yet it was better than a p |