Example sentences of "[art] good [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | The matching open-ended grant ( price subsidy ) will always lead the authority to consume more of the good than an unconditional non-matching grant ( lump-sum subsidy ) . |
| 3 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 4 | But the best that a virtuous woman can hope for is that she be reborn as a man . |
| 5 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 6 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |
| 7 | Their father died when George was three years old , and the strongest influence on him , until she died when he was thirty-four , was his mother Magdalene , the patroness of John Donne , who wrote a well-known poem to her : Donne , in preaching her funeral sermon , described how , ‘ as her house was a court in the conversation of the best and an almshouse in feeding the poore , so it was also a hospital in ministering relief to the sick . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You 're no better than a Hitler . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 13 | Thereafter each quite expensive ball-cum-transmitter was no better than a simple ball . |
| 14 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 20 | A robot , with no matter how powerful an artificial intelligence , would perform no better than a person . ’ |
| 21 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | No better than a whore . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 28 | But then we would send our teams away , and they 'd come back with no better than an honourable defeat in the Test Series . |
| 29 | ‘ If he wants to behave no better than an animal , then let him wallow in it , ’ she told him , and no amount of cajoling would persuade her otherwise . |
| 30 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |