Example sentences of "[pron] better than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contacts between the revolutionary left and the rest of the underground continued , so who better than a designer who had worked for Oz ? |
| 2 | Now since I 've just about learnt the difference between the sharp end and the blunt end of a boat , I 've decided to go straight to the top and get some expert advice from the R Y A and who better than the R Y A's national coach John , Hi John . |
| 3 | And if he required a tutor , Thorfinn could have found none better than the Normans , natives of a crowded , belligerent duchy full of strong young barons fighting for power . |
| 4 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 5 | Some of them are very , very frail and they really get something out of the music , ’ said Mr Harper who likes nothing better than a foot-tapping , clapping and smiling congregation . |
| 6 | For Christmas Day there 's nothing better than a sparkler which will carry you through any first course . |
| 7 | ‘ I adore children and love nothing better than a household full of youngsters . ’ |
| 8 | Well , he enjoyed every moment of it , as though he liked nothing better than a brawl . |
| 9 | I adore children — and love nothing better than a house full of youngsters |
| 10 | Roy Morgan from Gloucester is a life-long darts fan and enjoys nothing better than a game over a glass of rum at his local , the Plough in Tredworth . |
| 11 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 12 | And , just like the Aussie original , Newcastle United 's number nine relishes nothing better than a backs-to-the-wall shootout . |
| 13 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 14 | The salt air began to smell of rending , and the islanders in the water knew that Manjiku liked nothing better than the smell of blood . |
| 15 | I like this one better than the others . |
| 16 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 17 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 18 | The reforms deserve something better than the babble that has followed them from birth . |
| 19 | The Review of Child Care Law stated an acceptance that the state should not intervene between parent and child simply because it could provide something better than the parents but only if parents were falling so far below an acceptable standard that their children were suffering harm as a result ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | No one knew it better than the king ; and no one felt it more corrosively . |
| 21 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 22 | But is it better than the verses beginning ‘ Cottage on the Wye ’ ? |
| 23 | Seductive simplicity and relaxed elegance are the key to modern chic — and nobody flaunts it better than the French . |
| 24 | The pragmatist knows it better than the idealist . |
| 25 | And nowt better than the theatre to see the variety of behaviour … |
| 26 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 27 | Anything better than the prison cage . |