Example sentences of "good [noun sg] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company swimming pool is a far better investment than an extravagant advertising campaign . |
| 2 | With regard to second-hand values , a good pipe organ is a better investment than an electronic instrument . |
| 3 | Does he agree that if the distribution of Government grant were seen to be fair , local residents would not only be able to assess the performance of local authorities but would begin to see that our new council tax is a far better deal than the uncosted return to the rates — or , even worse , the uncosted local income tax — proposed by the Opposition parties ? |
| 4 | The new Carrera 4 is a significantly better car than the old rear-drive 911 . |
| 5 | For would-be cowboys and girls there 's no better gift than The Ultimate Country Collection ( Sony ) which has 40 tracks covering the history of country from the Fifties to the Nineties . |
| 6 | One gets the feeling from Warnie 's diary , for example , that it was better to be a good Inkling than a good poet , or even a good man . |
| 7 | I do n't think either , given the succession of scandals and the aura of sleaze hanging over the Secretary of State 's quango sector that anyone would deny that in terms of value for money and financial probity , direct democratic control is a far better watchdog than the financial control systems of the Welsh office . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the Signature 's switch is obviously better quality than the Japanese version . |
| 9 | Worthwhile parts of the firm will be bought by some other firm that can make use of them — perhaps better use than the existing management . |
| 10 | Scarborough .. 3 Chelsea ...... 2 ( Scarborough win 4-3 on agg ) NOT SINCE Charles Laughton has Scarborough produced better theatre than the thunderous denouement which barged Chelsea off the Littlewoods Cup stage at Seamer Road last night . |
| 11 | If the tenant could not exploit the land directly himself , with his own resources and those of his family , he would have to hire labour , but it seems likely that the small farmer was able to make a better profit than the great man , because his lands were not encumbered by a costly and unproductive bureaucracy . |
| 12 | Although he hardly knew the super-model , he was aware that there were times when a semi-stranger was a better confidant than a close friend . |
| 13 | The first , and simplest , is where the government has access to better information than the private sector ; the second is where consumers have better access than producers to information about current shocks . |
| 14 | Sometimes the justification is that the government has access to better information than the private sector and judges the true social cost to be in excess of the private cost . |
| 15 | It seemed that Smith has got a better image than the present chancellor has n't he ? |
| 16 | In another study a group of children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at high risk of sudden death ( history of loss of consciousness , family history of sudden death ) who were given amiodarone had a better prognosis than an untreated group at low risk . |
| 17 | This is something no ordinary parent could even begin to enforce and no judicial parent stands in a better position than a natural parent . |
| 18 | The reason for this is straightforward , since if the established firm is in the position of already having sunk its fixed costs then it is naturally in a better position than the potential entrant , because the cost of the equipment is irrelevant to the decision as to whether to produce . |
| 19 | That might be a necessary protection in order , e.g. , to prevent a cheque obtained by fraud from getting into the hands of an innocent holder , who would be in better position than the original party to the fraud . |
| 20 | Let us now turn our attention to the voluntary sector to see if it is in any better position than the informal sector to compensate for reductions in local authority provision . |
| 21 | Interestingly enough I also heard recently that takes patients from a private hospital , the , because they can give far better treatment than the private sector . |
| 22 | Many approved of this , including one Brit rock press hack who 'd pronounced ‘ The Pogues ’ to be in much better shape than the real thing who 'd seen them not long before . |