Example sentences of "[adv] good [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 2 | Expect to see a version of Norton 's Backup program — it 's much better than Backup and Restore |
| 3 | Of course , it was much better than Danu as postings go . |
| 4 | She wanted to sit here , and stare at this view , which was much better than hospital . |
| 5 | punchlines are much better than sort of er . |
| 6 | Mother is much better but father is dead ! ’ |
| 7 | According to Butler , SAG specifications are technically much better because SAG 's SQL uses a common subset of the language . |
| 8 | Trivial names are much better as memory aids as well . |
| 9 | There were no lavatories on the station , or only filthy ones , so she and I chased down the line and out to the fields every ten minutes or so — poor Mig , she was so good and patient . |
| 10 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 12 | Rock and Protection : Slate , generally good but caution should be exercised . |
| 13 | Money is always better than experience , is n't it ? ’ she could n't resist taunting . |
| 14 | Prevention is always better than cure . |
| 15 | Prevention is always better than cure . |
| 16 | Equally straitened is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , which reported plunging profits that were still better than forecast : it is cutting its bonus for executives by 20% in the year to March 31 1994 , Reuter reports from Tokyo , adding that it is also considering reducing bonuses for senior managers as well as stopping increases of wages of those above section manager ; the company sees intense competition . |
| 17 | If that is too difficult , seek other help — counselling will do you more good than valium ’ . |
| 18 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 19 | Protein skimming does far more good than harm . |
| 20 | Well , you are beginning to lose it , and as a medical man I assure you it will do you more good than harm . ’ |
| 21 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 22 | Prevention is usually better than cure , though , so keep one jump ahead of your child . |
| 23 | Like a fiery Pandora 's box , the lid was thrown wide open , spewing all the good and evil upon the world ( and , like the Greek myth , once good and evil are loosed on the world they can not be called back ) . |
| 24 | This method of analysis does not always work , and sometimes interpretation of such sites is little better than guesswork . |
| 25 | ‘ It was little better than murder , ’ Celia said fiercely . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In this case he clearly decided that the sampo was at once a thing and an allegory , like the Silmarils : a jewel , bright , hypnotic , intrinsically valuable , but also the quintessence of the creative powers , provoking both good and evil , the maker 's personality itself . |
| 28 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |
| 29 | It would have been far better if majority voting had applied in that instance . |
| 30 | It 's really good because management 's the same no matter where it is , but in the Health Service there are sometimes specific problems and this course is geared to people working in the Health Service and that can only be a good thing . |