Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] good [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal .
3 An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie .
7 Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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