Example sentences of "better than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a circus comes to town they send in the stars … so who better than Desert Orchid to lead the festival parade into Cheltenham … |
| 2 | is better than state b. |
| 3 | What it means is that if you know that somebody 's or if you know somebody 's sex then you 've got a better than chance bet at guessing whether they smoke or not . |
| 4 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 5 | But there 'll be some jollification around the old homestead tonight and nobody likes tripping the light fantastic better than wor Martin . ’ |
| 6 | Remember , they will taste better than school cabbage . |
| 7 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 8 | They 're better than lamp posts and that , cos trees grow out of the ground , so they 're extra special like . |
| 9 | It is better than mutton broth in August . |
| 10 | Over-achievement , ie better than target level |
| 11 | I should have remembered : our new management likes nothing better than doing things on the cheap . |
| 12 | No not They 're better than Doc Marten 's . |
| 13 | It is notable that students with no qualifications or who enter only on the basis of O-levels have relatively high non-completion rates , while students entering on the basis of one A-level or Access courses have completion rates which are marginally better than A-level entrants . |
| 14 | and there be twenty eight shillings a week , that 's all I allowed him and because that was even better than labour money and so the day , they , I had to keep that they stopped all me labour , so cos I had the money you see . |
| 15 | BBC Radio news scored 5.0 and Commercial Radio news 4.4. party leaflets came bottom with 4.0 while conversations with family , friends , and acquaintances scored 4.8 , which was better than party leaflets or Commercial Radio but worse than the press or television . |
| 16 | Well this I think 's Well it smells better than camomile tea . |
| 17 | Take something as fundamental as the NHS and Community Care Act — we could have tested whether general practitioner fundholding was better than health care purchasing by districts . |
| 18 | Yet the overt ruralism of the prose is more strongly qualified in the verse , where country , primitive , with its ‘ daemonic , chthonic/ Powers ’ is seen as ultimately no better than city unless-redeemed by the Christian vision . |
| 19 | Fortunately he is now fully recovered and will take all the beating as he is better than form figures indicate . |
| 20 | It 's better than Coconut Forgery ! |