Example sentences of "good [conj] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1974 ) in a desire to achieve the economies of scale concentration ( already discussed in Chapter 4 ) , and second , the dramatic increase in accessibility for those with private cars has allowed the majority of people to travel much further distances to better and/or cheaper facilities ( Rowley , 1971 ) . |
| 2 | It is not a question of whether it is better or worse to remain a virgin or a bachelor , he wrote , but rather of bringing the terror to the surface . |
| 3 | John Bray , senior brand manager for Nestlé Foodservice , which supplies both dried and frozen pasta , is keen to dispel any thought that one type of pasta is better or worse than another . |
| 4 | There are still a few speeches in Greenaway 's house-style of inert paradox and cod worldliness — notably a digression by the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) about black food and the price structure of restaurant meals — but the story , for better or worse , stands relatively clear of verbiage . |
| 5 | Though no-one was prepared to admit that Roman Catholics had got the better of the argument , some Protestants felt a certain dissatisfaction with an afterlife in which all earnest endeavour , for better or worse , was at an end . |
| 6 | Now I am , for better or worse . |
| 7 | Nonconformity no longer felt itself to be a gathered community of dissenters but part and parcel of the English Christian Church and for better or worse the architectural tradition of that Church and nation was Gothic . |
| 8 | It is hard to see why a code in which GGC means glycine and AAG means lysine is either better or worse than one in which the meanings are reversed . |
| 9 | Would it be better or worse for democracy if significant powers were transferred to the European level , away from national parliamentary control ? |
| 10 | For better or worse , it is a de-historicized ‘ history ’ : a reservoir of literary and cultural materials that can be drawn on precisely for the purpose of making novels ; a reservoir , more exactly , of cultures , themes , characters , rhetorical forms , stereotypes and structures … |
| 11 | For better or worse , with sincerity or mercenary attachment , the hip musical climate was heavily involved . |
| 12 | And has it got better or worse ? |
| 13 | The public may find it hard to stomach for very long the fact that schools in one area should be much better or worse funded than those in neighbouring areas , or that age weightings should vary greatly from one area to another . |
| 14 | Perhaps a herd of all-grey zebras would fare no better or worse where killers are concerned . |
| 15 | This did not inherently exclude any method of training , formal or informal , although the unplanned , sometimes unintended , day-to-day learning and reinforcement that takes place ‘ on-the-job ’ ( for better or worse ) , was regarded as outside our official remit . |
| 16 | It 's different when a respected UK dealer makes substantiated claims for something that will affect his reputation for better or worse . |
| 17 | You matter not because you are better or worse than other people but because you are different from them . |
| 18 | The reasons why your results look better or worse than another company 's may have nothing to do with the quality of your performance . |
| 19 | You are locked into the current interest rate , for better or worse . |
| 20 | However , being ignorant of either place , I did n't know whether the latter was better or worse . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ Things went no better or worse than I expected : I 'm getting that sort of treatment every game now and it 's up to me to overcome it . |
| 22 | For better or worse |
| 23 | Recording is an index of whether or not the method of intervention is effective over time and , in turn , of whether or not the child 's behaviour is changing — be it for better or worse . |
| 24 | The cop series came of age ( for better or worse , depending on how much affection you had for Frank Barlow ) with this racy , chasey New York scruffbag buddy-buddy series , whose instant success relied on Paul Michael Glaser and Singing David Soul 's very physical maintenance of law and order , sparking much copycat jumping-on-to-parked-cars within Britain 's younger generation . |
| 25 | Only its poetry , composed in a minor key , is ( for better or worse ) widely disregarded . |
| 26 | For better or worse , he also was instrumental in promoting the blockbuster exhibition , notably the infamous ‘ Treasures of Tutankhamun ’ extravaganza of 1978 that attracted the public in droves but made tranquil enjoyment of a work of art an impossibility ( those who believe that the age of the rib-crushing blockbusters has ended , thanks in part to increased insurance costs , are herewith directed to the Museum of Modern Art 's current Matisse show — provided you have a ticket ) . |
| 27 | If field social workers define child care services mainly in terms of planning and resource finding ( for better or worse ) , they may well consider their main work ended once the children enter care . |
| 28 | For better or worse , the art world thinks in decade-blocks , and if the Eighties were the decade when cash-rich corporations sponsored major loan shows by established artists and contemporary art museums heralded the ‘ mid-careers ’ of artists anointed by the commercial galleries , the Nineties are the era of social concern . |
| 29 | Finance : Expect stability ( for better or worse ) . |
| 30 | Juvenile lawlessness , he thought , represented ‘ a serious challenge , the difficulty of which is intensified by the extension of freedom which , for better or worse , has been given to youth in the last generation ’ . |