Example sentences of "[be] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cries of gratitude sounded from the car and heartfelt from Haverford , ‘ You 're a better man than I am , Gunga Din . ’ |
| 2 | And he said you 're a better man than I am ! |
| 3 | Well yeah , they 're a better breed of men yeah , exactly |
| 4 | No I tell you why I chucked them is because they 're a better make are n't they , K P ? |
| 5 | but they 're a bigger size and thicker skinned , I 'd sooner have the smaller ones |
| 6 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Only if you 're a bigger fool than I take you for . ’ |
| 8 | I 've met one or two schoolteachers , but then again they 're a bigger group in society as a whole . |
| 9 | Then you 're a sillier bugger than I thought you were , Mike . ’ |
| 10 | The proprietor listened , then said , ‘ You 're a braver man than I am , mister . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I am a better judge than you are , ’ said Ludens . |
| 12 | I enjoyed it and I think I am a better person for it . |
| 13 | You could say that to me now , now that I understand how much you loved me , now that I have suffered , now that I am a better person . |
| 14 | ‘ I have played alongside internationals wherever I have been , so of course I am a better player , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ It is always nice to beat Boris although I am not saying I have proved I am a better player , ’ said the 24-year-old Stich . |
| 16 | In the end , I am a better woman , for my values are secure , they have been tried and not found wanting . |
| 17 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 18 | It could n't have been a worse morning for the Queen of England to visit us . |
| 19 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 20 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 21 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 22 | If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day . |
| 23 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |
| 24 | Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ? |
| 25 | But a rugged tight-head like Peter Clohessy might have been a better choice . |
| 26 | Forrester would definately been a better choice to partner Deane in this match . |
| 27 | ‘ There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’ |
| 28 | Most four-day matches have not only been a better preparation for Test cricketers but have also produced generally more interesting cricket . |
| 29 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 30 | A solution , of course , is to program the patches in a logical order , but a bank ‘ Down ’ pedal would have been a better idea , especially as the A4 can be used to send MIDI commands to external MIDI devices , such as another processor . |