Example sentences of "no better [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald 's wife Aileen looked upset and redeyed , without a minister the occasion seemed rough and ready , no better than a ceilidh , unlawful even , and her misgivings about the McLaggans had all revived . |
| 2 | However , this is all rather analytical and intellectual ; and if we ourselves can only function on this rational level , our communication with horses will be no better than a tourist who needs a phrase book or dictionary in a foreign country . |
| 3 | You 're no better than a Hitler . ’ |
| 4 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 5 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 6 | Thereafter each quite expensive ball-cum-transmitter was no better than a simple ball . |
| 7 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 11 | A competitor like Hewlett-Packard Co , which earlier this year took its own lumps for baiting-and-switching , says the machine is ‘ neither fish nor fowl , ’ describing it as ‘ too severely compromised to be a workstation ’ and dismissing it as no better than a 50MHz 80486 box . |
| 12 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 13 | A robot , with no matter how powerful an artificial intelligence , would perform no better than a person . ’ |
| 14 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 15 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 16 | No better than a whore . |
| 17 | He described the " teacher " of the local Methodists as " no better than a mean illiterate tinner , and what is surprising , but a boy of nineteen years old " . |
| 18 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 19 | But Cecil 's string was struggling to find its form at the time and Rainbow Lake could manage no better than a modest sixth to subsequent Derby fourth Cairo Prince . |