Example sentences of "[is] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 2 | I think he s a good defender who was unfortunate last year to take so much stick . |
| 3 | Another ting , he 's not a coward … he 's a better man than any of you scum . |
| 4 | ‘ He may play the Devil , but he 's a better man than you are ! ’ |
| 5 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |
| 6 | We need to be of ‘ now ’ and maybe that 's a better way of playing ‘ then ’ . |
| 7 | Surely that 's a better way to deal with machismo than trying to deafen ourselves to its allure . |
| 8 | It 's a better way of making a living than digging the roads . ’ |
| 9 | Well that 's a better way int it ? |
| 10 | Well , that 's a better try , Ferg . |
| 11 | Well that 's a better ball ! |
| 12 | it 's a better idea though is n't it |
| 13 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 14 | Mr Evans only complained once , about burnt potatoes , and when Auntie Lou came back , he said , ‘ That girl 's a better cook than you 'll ever be . ’ |
| 15 | He 's a better driver than he was when he left us , us in eighty-eight , because he 's two years , has two years more experience and in Formula one racing , experience , if you are a quick driver , experience is fundamentally important to winning . |
| 16 | It 's in the process of shifting over to NT because it 's a better base , he said , for its massive global database . |
| 17 | ‘ We always encourage discretionary work , ’ says Christopher Taylor-Young of Taylor-Young Investment Management Ltd ( 071–407 3452 ) , ‘ because in our view it 's much more successful , and I think it 's a better service . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And it 's a better hiding-place than out here in the country . |
| 19 | He says that it 's a better craft than those in which he trained . |
| 20 | One might , for instance , use the maxim to infer that because Eeyore 's sigh is a non-linguistic action , it 's a better sign that he 's out of thistles than Rabbit 's words are that he has some honey . |
| 21 | ‘ Hold tight … the gravel breaks through here , there 's a better grip . |
| 22 | It would be very suitable for horses , even more so than on the present roads there 's there 's there 's a better grip . |
| 23 | It 's a better day . |
| 24 | That 's a better bit is n't it ? |
| 25 | ‘ And despite the hardships of his life , he 's a better person than almost anyone I know . ’ |
| 26 | Inefficient 's a better word . ’ |
| 27 | He 's a better fighter than Postman Pat ! |
| 28 | SHE 'S A BETTER DRIBBLER THAN GAZZA |
| 29 | ENGLAND soccer star Alan Shearer cradled his baby daughter Chloe yesterday and declared : ‘ She 's a better dribbler than Gazza . ’ |
| 30 | Can Colin give me the name of one player who 's a better midfieldplayer than Macca , ofcourse he ca n't . |